San Francisco – – October 07, 2026 -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $13.9 million to the San Francisco Estuary Partnership and the Association of Bay Area Governments to restore 1,500 acres of tidal wetland at Strip Marsh East along the State Route 37 corridor in Solano County, with construction slated to begin in 2028.

Oakland, Calif. – October 07, 2026 -- California Waste Solutions is advancing a waste-to-energy project in Ho Chi Minh City requiring an investment of more than half a billion dollars, expanding its environmental infrastructure footprint beyond its core Oakland and San Jose recycling operations.

Durham, N.C. – October 07, 2026 -- Cypress Creek Energy has named three new executives as it scales operations following a $3.5 billion financing close for its Steel River Energy Center in Arkansas, America's largest solar project paired with battery storage.

Peter Toomey becomes Chief Operating Officer after nearly four years as Chief Development Officer

Toomey now oversees Project Execution and Cypress Creek Solutions, the company's asset management and operations division, alongside Continuous Improvement and Grid Integration responsibilities.

Seoul – – October 07, 2026 -- LG Energy Solution has signed a binding multi-year offtake agreement with Elevra Lithium for 240,000 dry metric tonnes of spodumene concentrate over four years, sourced from an already operational Canadian mine.

Plainsboro Township, N.J. – October 07, 2026 -- Veolia has completed a $58 million rebuild of its Princeton Meadows Wastewater Treatment Facility, replacing a 55-year-old plant with climate-resilient infrastructure serving roughly 11,000 residents and businesses in Middlesex County, New Jersey.

Greenville – October 07, 2026 -- Pacolet Milliken, LLC has acquired 100% of Georgia Renewable Power (GRP), adding 116 MW of biomass generating capacity across two Georgia plants and roughly tripling the size of its biomass platform. Financing for the deal was provided by Manulife; transaction terms were not disclosed.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – October 07, 2026 -- Duke Energy has reached a settlement with North Carolina regulators and major tech firms that forces data centers and other large-load customers to pay upfront for all grid connection costs, shielding existing ratepayers from the expense of the state's data center boom.

Austin, Texas – October 07, 2026 -- Enverus has launched Runsheet Assistant, a new AI capability within Enverus Courthouse that lets land, title, and legal teams analyze an entire chain of title in a single query, cutting runsheet analysis time by up to 75% depending on the task.

Greenwich, Conn. – October 07, 2026 -- Silver Point Capital's Direct Lending business has led a $650 million term loan financing to support Stryten Energy LLC's acquisition of C&D Technologies, Inc. and Trojan Battery Company, LLC, creating a combined battery manufacturing platform operating 18 facilities across the United States, Mexico and China.

Ann Arbor, Mich. – October 07, 2026 -- Volt Harbor, a software-defined energy startup based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, will exhibit its MAC-BESS platform at The Battery Show North America 2026 in Detroit, claiming the technology cuts battery energy storage project costs by roughly 40-50% while shrinking physical footprint by half.

The company will demonstrate the system at Booth #6212 from October 12-15 at Huntington Place, positioning MAC-BESS as a single battery-agnostic layer covering the entire front-end power stack from grid connection to data center load.