TORONTO – November 03, 2026 -- PowerBank Corporation's 3.26 MW Camillus community solar project in New York has received permission to operate, a key step toward bringing it into service. The project was sold to and built for Solar Advocate Development LLC in a transaction valued at US$7.3 million.

Munich/Freising – October 29, 2026 -- Construction of the Munich Arena, a privately financed concert venue with an investment volume of more than €400 million, began with a ceremonial groundbreaking on October 28, 2026. The 20,000-capacity arena is scheduled to open in 2029 next to Munich Airport.

Bavarian Minister-President Markus Söder, Freising Mayor Monika Schwind, Live Nation GSA Managing Director Marek Lieberberg and Munich Arena Managing Partner Lorenz Schmid turned the first symbolic spade. The ceremony follows a multi-year planning and approval phase.

SHANGHAI – October 29, 2026 -- DODGEN supplied devolatilization technology to three Chinese polyolefin elastomer (POE) projects in 2026. Two plants, at CNPC Daqing Petrochemical and Xingchuan New Materials, have started up on the first attempt, and a third customer, Shaanxi Yuneng, has signed a supply contract.

Catamarca – October 29, 2026 -- Rio Tinto has formally opened its Fénix 1B expansion and Sal de Vida operation in Argentina's Catamarca province after a combined investment of around $1.4 billion, adding 25,000 tonnes of annual lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE) capacity once fully ramped up.

Rome – October 27, 2026 -- OHB Italia's Eaglet-II constellation reached its planned 24 satellites after the third batch of eight launched at 20:32 CEST from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on SpaceX's Transporter-18 rideshare mission. The launch brings Italy's IRIDE Earth observation programme to 39 satellites in orbit.

Eaglet-II hit full strength less than twelve months after its first satellites launched in 2025. IRIDE now combines the 24 Eaglet-II units with 15 HEO-constellation satellites already in orbit.

SAVANNAH – October 27, 2026 -- The 444-room Signia Hilton Savannah has reached its highest structural beam, bringing the nearly 200-foot tower closer to a 2028 opening as the headquarters hotel for the Savannah Convention Center.

The Savannah-Georgia Convention Center Authority (SGCCA), Hilton, Brasfield & Gorrie and Songy Highroads marked the topping out with elected officials and community partners. The hotel will connect directly to the convention center, which offers 660,000 square feet of meeting, exhibit and event space along the Savannah River.

Kitchener – – October 15, 2026 -- Recurrent Energy, a subsidiary of Canadian Solar (NASDAQ: CSIQ), has started commercial operations at its 200 MWp Villameca solar project in Castilla y León, Spain, bringing the company close to 1 GW of operating solar capacity in the country by the end of the year.

Beijing – October 12, 2026 -- The first two generator units of China's Dashixia Water Control Project in the Tianshan Mountains, Xinjiang, connected to the power grid on September 29 and began generating electricity, marking the project's official operation.

247-meter dam sets height record for its type

The project's concrete-faced sand-gravel dam stands 247 meters high. It is the tallest of its kind among both completed and under-construction dams worldwide. China Energy Engineering Group invested in and built the project.

Tilbury – October 11, 2026 -- National Grid's tunnel boring machine (TBM) Caroline completed a 2.2km drive beneath the River Thames 49 days ahead of the original programme, ending the tunnelling phase of the Grain to Tilbury project, part of The Great Grid Upgrade.

The breakthrough came on Sunday 27 September. Caroline excavated a new high-voltage electricity cable tunnel between Tilbury in Essex and Gravesend in Kent.