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November

05

Decarbon Daily - Following #COP26 & OPEC Response

Follow COP26 by the Tweets

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Check out the twitter feed of the active #COP26 tweets. Over 2.5 million tweets already today!

Oil Rises After OPEC+ Rebuffs U.S. Call to Boost Output

 www.reuters.com
Oil prices rose towards $81 a barrel on Friday after OPEC+ producers rebuffed a U.S. call to raise supply to cool the market, sticking to...

McDermott and Shell in Decarbonization Deal

 www.rigzone.com
McDermott has announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Shell Eastern Petroleum Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of Royal Dutc...

In a Lithium Squeeze, Biggest Producer ‘Going as Fast as We Can’

 www.bloomberg.com
Albemarle Corp., the world’s biggest lithium producer, is expanding as quickly as possible and evaluating new opportunities as buyers of ...
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November

04

Decarbon Daily - Direct Air Capture in Europe

EV Maker Bedeo Acquires Protean from Evergrande's Auto Unit

 www.reuters.com
UK-based e-mobility firm Bedeo said on Thursday it has acquired Protean Electric from China Evergrande Group's (3333.HK) automotive unit....

The Bureau of Land Management has Tentatively Scheduled a Geothermal Lease Sale for August 2022 and Opened the Nomination Window

 www.thinkgeoenergy.com
The nomination window for the BLM Nevada State Office Geothermal Lease Sale tentatively scheduled for August 2022 is now open. Land no...

TNT Crane & Rigging Acquires JMS Crane & Rigging

 www.inforney.com
TNT Crane & Rigging, Inc. ("TNT" or the "Company") announced today that it has acquired the businesses of JMS Crane & Rigging Co., WM Ser...

US Producers Pioneer and Continental Strike $3.25-Billion Permian Deal

 jpt.spe.org
Continental Resources announced today that it is buying Permian Basin acreage from Pioneer Natural Resources for $3.5 billion in cash. Th...

ExxonMobil, Pertamina join forces to develop CCUS in SE Asia

 www.gasworld.com
Indonesian energy company PT Pertamina (Pertamina) will join forces with oil giant ExxonMobil to help decarbonise the country. To meet...

Mitsubishi Heavy Aims for Low-carbon Shift After Profit Rebound

 asia.nikkei.com
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries returned to profit in the six months through September despite sluggish sales, as the company works to transf...
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November

03

Decarbon Daily - Startups of COP26 + Tackling Methane

Sweep: Reduce Carbon Emissions in Your Business and Value Chain

 www.sweep.net
We’re building Sweep to help companies tackle climate change the right way.To empower them to take the task seriously, knowing that with ...

Measurable.Energy: A Vision to Avoid Emissions

 measurable.energy
We created the measurable.energy (m.e) Platform from the ground up to offer facilities managers, building owners and occupants with real-...

BrainBox AI: Autonomous AI Technology for HVAC

 www.brainboxai.com
We are proud to be at the forefront of a new era in building automation and a leader in the green building revolution. Located in Montrea...
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November

02

Decarbon Daily - India Emissions Focus, Methane Limit, & Rivian IPO

Biden Administration Moves to Limit Methane, a Potent Greenhouse Gas

 www.nytimes.com
The Biden administration said Tuesday that it would heavily regulate methane, a potent greenhouse gas that spews from oil and natural gas...

DuPont (DD) Acquires Rogers Corporation (ROG) for $5.2B

 www.streetinsider.com
DuPont has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Rogers Corporation ("Rogers") (NYSE: ROG)(1) for $5.2 billion. Rogers is a glob...

Electric Vehicle Maker Rivian Seeks to Raise $8.4 billion in IPO

 ca.finance.yahoo.com
"Electric vehicle startup Rivian hopes to raise up $8.4 billion in its initial public offering, according to a regulatory filing posted M...

Eni Acquires 20% Stake in Third Phase of World's Largest Offshore Wind Project

 www.oedigital.com
Italian oil and gas company Eni is increasing its renewables investments and has now acquired a 20% stake in the 1.2GW Dogger Bank C offs...
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November

01

Decarbon Daily - Energy Events, RNG, & Series A

Brightmark, Chevron Announce First Renewable Natural Gas at Lawnhurst Farms

 www.chevron.com
Brightmark RNG Holdings LLC – a joint venture partnership between Chevron U.S.A. Inc. and Brightmark Fund Holdings LLC, a subsidiary of B...

Resilient Power Secures $5 Million Seed Round to Scale Low Cost EV Fast Charging Technology and Power Grid Resiliency

 www.prnewswire.com
As increasing electric vehicle growth pressures the electric power infrastructure and the need for EV fast-charging increases, Resilient ...

ClearFlame Engine Technologies Secures $17 Million to Decarbonize Long-Haul Trucking and Other Diesel-Driven Industries

 www.prnewswire.com
ClearFlame Engine Technologies, a startup dedicated to the development of net-zero engine technology, announced today that it has secured...

BrainBox AI Raises $24M USD in First Close of its Series A Funding Round to Fuel Continued Global Expansion and Innovation

 www.prnewswire.com
BrainBox AI, a leader in autonomous building technology, today announced a $24M raise to further deploy its AI technology in the built en...

Climate Change Agritech Loam Bio Raises $40 Million in Series A

 www.startupdaily.net
Decarbonisation startup Loam Bio, which uses microbes microbes to sequester carbon in farm soils, has raised $40 million in a series A. T...

Builders Private Capital Stands up $300 Million Clean Energy Fund

 impactalpha.com
Chicago-based Builders Private Capital is the direct investment arm of Builders Vision, an impact group founded by Lukas Walton, the bill...
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October

29

Decarbon Daily - $101 Million Raise + Investment Ramp to COP26

Persefoni Raises $101 Million to Build Out Carbon-tracking Software

 www.bizjournals.com
Persefoni, a Tempe-based startup that's building climate impact software for enterprises, said Thursday that it had raised $101 million i...

SustainCERT completes $10 Million Capital Raise to Drive a #RacetotheTop in Carbon Emissions Accounting and Verification

 finance.yahoo.com
SustainCERT SA (""SustainCERT"", or ""the Company""), the leading digital platform for verification of carbon emissions and an official c...

Investors Ramp Up Climate Tech Investments Ahead of COP26

 impactalpha.com
Venture capital investors poured $16 billion into climate tech startups in the first half of 2021. They’re padding the total ahead of nex...

Net Zero By 2050? Don’t Plan on It

 www.wsj.com
As leaders prepare to gather in Glasgow for the United Nations climate-change conference, you may think the world has agreed to reduce an...
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October

28

Decarbon Daily - Greening of Middle East & Start-up Funding

Cemvita Factory Raises Additional Venture Capital for Industrial Decarbonization

 www.prnewswire.com
Cemvita Factory ("Cemvita"), the leading provider of carbon negative synthetic biology solutions for energy and mining industries, announ...

H2 Raises $15M in Series B Funding

 www.finsmes.com
H2, Inc., a Daejeon, South Korea-based flow battery manufacturer, secured $15m in Series B funding. Backers included Envisioning Partners...

Europe’s Biggest Climate VC Just Came Out of Stealth with a €350m fund

 sifted.eu
Europe is the fastest-growing region for climate tech in the world. And the sector has just gotten another tailwind as a Berlin-based tea...

More Than Half of 2022′s Solar Projects Threatened by Spiking Costs, New Report Finds

 www.cnbc.com
Surging solar costs, driven my raw material price increases and supply chain constraints, could delay or even cancel more than half of 20...
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October

27

Decarbon Daily - Hydrogen Stations & Clean Hydrogen Investment

Clean Hydrogen is Coming for Fleet Operators with Project Beehive Plan for Distributed Hydrogen Production Hub & Fueling Station in Utah

 www.bayotech.us
Hydrogen is coming to the ports and shipping sector in a big way as operators realize it is a feasible solution to decarbonize the moveme...

Saudi Arabia to Use $110 Billion Gas Field for Blue Hydrogen

 www.bloomberg.com
Saudi Arabia said it would use one of the world’s biggest natural-gas projects to make blue hydrogen, as the kingdom steps up efforts to ...

Woodside to Spend Over $745 Million on Hydrogen, Ammonia Plant

 www.reuters.com
Woodside Petroleum (WPL.AX) will invest more than A$1 billion ($746 million) to build a carbon-neutral hydrogen and ammonia production fa...

Linde Starts Up Major New Hydrogen Facility in the U.S. Gulf Coast

 www.linde-engineering.com
Linde (NYSE:LIN; FWB:LIN) announced today it has started up a new world-scale hydrogen production facility in Texas, bringing Linde's tot...

Tenaris introduces THera™ technology at the Hydrogen Technology Expo Europe

 www.tenaris.com
Tenaris is introducing THera™, its latest materials technology for all hydrogen applications, at the Carbon Capture & Hydrogen Technology...

ExxonMobil to Increase Carbon Capture Capacity in Wyoming

 www.gasworld.com
ExxonMobil wants to capture an additional one million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) annually from its LaBarge, Wyoming facility, ...
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October

26

Decarbon Daily - EVs in Argentina & 100k EVs to Hertz

Hertz Orders 100,000 Teslas, the Single-largest EV Purchase Ever, with Tom Brady Campaign

 electrek.co
"Hertz Global Holdings Inc has placed an order for a whopping 100,000 Teslas in a huge first step toward electrifying its rental-car flee...

A Mining Company is Sifting Through Mineral Sludge for Rare Materials as Disruptions Dent the Supply of Critical Tech Components

 markets.businessinsider.com
The global supply-chain crisis has caused one mining company to resort to sifting through mineral sludge to feed hungry technology compan...

These New Electric Trucks Could Take Over The Commercial Industry

 carbuzz.com
The automotive world is going electric, and manufacturers, big and small, are scrambling to snatch up a piece of this booming segment. Ma...

EV Sales Forecasts by EVadoption

 evadoption.com
EV sales should grow to reach approximately 29.5% of all new car sales in 2030 from an expect roughly 3.4% in 2021. This would also see s...
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October

25

Decarbon Daily - Cleantech Capital from O&G

DOE Provides $20MM Funding for Regional CCUS Projects

 www.rigzone.com
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $20 million in funding for four projects working to accelerate the regional deployment ...

Banking Sucks, so We Made it Great. Now Let’s Fix Carbon

 medium.com
Today we’re excited to announce that Pledge is coming out of stealth with the closing of a $4.5m seed round to accelerate our growth. Ple...

Carbon Footprint Tracker Cogo Raises $20M Ahead of COP26 UN Climate Summit

 www.uktech.news
On a mission to empower hundreds of millions of consumers and businesses globally to take action by measuring, reducing and compensating ...

Via Separations Raises Oversubscribed $38 Million Series B Led by NGP ETP to Transform Industrial Energy Use

 www.businesswire.com
Via Separations, a rapidly-scaling technology company that enables industrial decarbonization, announced a $38 million investment, led by...

Climate Analytics Provider Jupiter Raises $54 Million in Series C Funding

 mercomindia.com
Jupiter, a US-based climate analytics company, has raised $54 million in a Series C funding round led by Clearvision Ventures and MPower ...

British Satellite Scale-up Raises £15m in Oversubscribed Series A Funding

 spaceref.com
British satellite scale-up Satellite Vu, founded in 2016, has successfully raised £15 million ($20.7 million), as it looks to ramp up its...
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October

22

Decarbon Daily - Halliburton Labs, e-frac, & ESG Bubble

ESG will create financial bubbles just like crypto, banking body CEO says

 www.cnbc.com
Financial bubbles will form as investors scramble to make deals in the sustainability space, according to Tim Adams, the president and CE...

With Biden's Climate Plan in Jeopardy, Can America Lead on Climate Change?

 www.npr.org
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with environmental policy expert Leah Stokes about what the Democrats' spending plan can achieve on climate, with...

Big Oil Courts U.S. Clean-energy Startups in Bid to Speed Green Transition

 www.reuters.com
U.S. clean-energy startups are booming as oil companies are giving them more attention and cash in a bid to speed up their own green tran...

What’s Happening With EV Charging Infrastructure In The USA?

 cleantechnica.com
According to the US Energy Information Administration, about 90% of the energy consumed in US transportation comes from petroleum. The EP...
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October

21

Decarbon Daily - Africa Cleantech, Ando, & Risilience

Leading Climate Change Risk Analysis Platform Risilience Raises £6m Series A Funding Round Led by IQ Capital to Scale Net Zero Transformation for Business

 www.prnewswire.com
Risilience™, the leading climate change business platform, has announced a Series A investment of £6m from international investors led by...

Ando Raises $6 Million Seed Round

 www.prnewswire.com
Sustainable Banking service Ando today announces a seed funding round of $6 million, led by TTV Capital and including investments from HO...

We Don't Have Water: South American Dam Faces Energy Crunch as River Ebbs

 www.reuters.com
The giant Itaipu hydroelectric power plant, wedged between Paraguay and Brazil on the Parana River, is facing an energy crunch amid recor...

Energy Transition Now - Episode 11 with Kentaro Hosomi

 www.westwoodenergy.com
One of the key technologies that could play a vital – if not essential – role in making net-zero emissions by mid-century possible is car...
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October

20

Decarbon Daily - Carbon Mapper, CCUS, & Hydrogen

Renewables Will Account for Most Global Generation Increases, but Coal Use Remains High

 www.eia.gov
In the Reference case of our International Energy Outlook 2021 (IEO2021), where we assume current laws and regulations continue into the ...

Antin Infrastructure Partners Acquires Majority Stake in Origis Energy

 solarindustrymag.com
Funds managed by Antin Infrastructure Partners, an infrastructure investment firm, have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a ...

Convergent Energy + Power Acquires 20 MWh Battery Energy Storage Opportunity from SMT Energy

 www.prnewswire.com
SMT Energy LLC (SMT), a renewable energy developer and advisor, and Convergent Energy + Power (Convergent), the most dependable provider ...

Ineos to Invest $2B+ in Green Hydrogen Across Europe

 www.rigzone.com
Ineos has announced that it will invest more than $2.3 billion (EUR 2 billion) into electrolysis projects to make zero carbon, green hydr...

Twelve Produces First Batch of E-Jet® Fuel from Carbon Dioxide Through Partnership with the U.S. Air Force

 www.businesswire.com
Carbon transformation company Twelve announced today it has produced the first fossil-free jet fuel called E-Jet® from carbon dioxide (CO...

Carbon Capture Inc. Closes $35 Million Series A Funding From Prime Movers Lab, Rio Tinto, Idealab Studio, and Time Ventures

 www.businesswire.com
Carbon Capture Inc. (CarbonCapture), a climate tech company that makes machines that remove CO2 directly from the atmosphere, today annou...
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October

19

Decarbon Daily - Energy Q3 Earnings Season in Full Swing

China’s Energy Crisis Deepens With Potentially Fatal Consequences

 www.forbes.com
China’s multi-month energy crisis is deepening, with coal and natural gas prices now at record highs while temperatures are poised to plu...

Thiel-Backed Lithium Miner Is Said to Prepare Nasdaq Listing

 www.bloomberg.com
Rock Tech Lithium Inc. is preparing a Nasdaq listing to broaden its investor base and help finance a $545 million battery-metals smelter ...

Who Are the World’s Biggest Climate Polluters? Satellites Sweep for Culprits

 www.wsj.com
Satellites are emerging as a tool to fight climate change, exposing hidden sources of greenhouse gas emissions and allowing governments t...

BlackRock Backs New Hub for Company Climate Data

 www.usnews.com
Wall Street giant BlackRock announced Tuesday that it is backing a new London-based research hub which will provide asset managers with i...
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October

18

Decarbon Daily - Energy Crisis, Renewables, & AI-Powered

Behind the Energy Crisis: Fossil Fuel Investment Drops, and Renewables Aren’t Ready

 www.wsj.com
An energy price shock is serving as a reminder of the world’s continued dependency on fossil fuels—even amid efforts to shift to renewabl...

Japanese Oil Major Eneos Acquires Renewables Firm JRE

 www.windpowermonthly.com
Eneos becomes Japan’s first oil wholesaler to agree a deal to acquire a large renewable energy company

Shell-backed Silicon Ranch Acquires Carbon Offset Firm Clearloop

 www.pv-tech.org
US independent power producer Silicon Ranch has acquired Clearloop, a start-up that helps companies offset their carbon emissions by fund...

Goldbell Acquires BlueSG; Plans up to $40M Investment by 2023

 www.businesstimes.com.sg
Vehicle leasing and distribution company Goldbell Group announced on Monday (Oct 18) its finalisation on the acquisition of electric car-...

AiDash Secures $27M in Series B Funding to Prevent Wildfires and Power Outages With AI-Powered Satellite Technology

 www.businesswire.com
AiDash, a leading provider of satellite and AI-powered vegetation management and sustainability solutions, today announced it has secured...

Battery Startup Our Next Energy (ONE) Closes Series A Led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures

 www.prnewswire.com
Our Next Energy Inc. (ONE), a Michigan-based energy storage solutions company, today announced it has closed a $25 million Series A capit...
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October

15

Decarbon Daily - Carbon Pricing, CCUS, & Emissions

CCUS Deemed ‘Essential’ by Secretary of State at CCUS 2021 Conference

 www.gasworld.com
UK Secretary of State Kwasi Kwarteng called carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) an ‘essential part’ of the UK’s toolkit in the...

Sproule Sees CCUS Driving ‘Tremendous’ Growth as Carbon Prices Climb

 www.naturalgasintel.com
Underground carbon disposal has to increase 172-fold to hit the global greenhouse gas (GHG) cleanup target set by the International Energ...

eBay Commits to Reducing Scope 1 and 2 Carbon Emissions 90% by 2030

 www.eseller365.com
eBay continues its commitment to climate action by setting an ambitious greenhouse gas (GHG) target approved by the Science Based Targets...

Carbon Allowances ETFs Can Help Investors Access a Growing New Market

 www.nasdaq.com
In the recent webcast, Carbon Allowances: An Asset Class That’s Good for the Planet and Your Portfolio, Eron Bloomgarden, partner at Clim...

How We Get to 100% Electrical Everything

 www.fastcompany.com
This scenario of replacing everything that uses energy with a zero-carbon solution when it’s retired is called a 100% adoption rate. Toda...

Climate Software Startups Are Suddenly A Hot Investment

 news.crunchbase.com
As a serial entrepreneur, Diego Saez Gil is used to pitching ambitious startup ideas and getting turned down. So he was prepared for some...
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October

14

Decarbon Daily - Charging Map, Energy Security, & Climate Risk

Enduring Waves of Climate Change: Maritime Decarbonization, a Tempest Before the Calm

 www.spglobal.com
The global maritime industry is intensifying efforts to curb its carbon footprint, but the journey has just begun. Preparations, thus far...

Is Decarbonization Threatening Europe’s Energy Security?

 oilprice.com
Later this month about 25,000 people are headed to Glasgow for the 26th annual United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNF...

Climate Solutions Launches Climate and ESG-focused Private Marketplace for Institutional Investors

 www.propertyfundsworld.com
Climate Solutions, a climate-focused capital raising and strategic advisory firm, has launched Climarket, an online marketplace for insti...

U.S. Wants Federal Contracts to Reflect Climate Risk

 www.reuters.com
The Biden administration on Thursday began a process to amend federal procurement rules to require the U.S. government - the world's larg...
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October

13

Decarbon Daily - Tailwinds for EV Charging Solutions

Shell Venture Eyes Creating Hydrogen Supply and Demand

 www.argusmedia.com
Shell wants to break what it calls the "chicken and egg problem" in European hydrogen through a partnership that it hopes will create dem...

Eni and Progressive Energy aim to cast HyNet as CCUS Vanguard Project

 www.upstreamonline.com
Italian oil and gas giant Eni believes a proposed HyNet North West scheme that is aiming to decarbonise a large swathe of industry in the...

Energy Agency Urges Bigger Global Push to Cut Emissions

 www.crossroadstoday.com
"The International Energy Agency is urging governments to make stronger commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions at an upcoming U.N. c...

Chevron Sets Goal of Cutting Carbon Emissions in Operations, but Not for Products

 www.wsj.com
Chevron Corp. said it has an “aspiration” to reduce or offset carbon emissions from its operations to zero by 2050, as investor and publi...

Infrastructure Bill Could Cut Carbon Emissions By Nearly a Gigaton

 www.scientificamerican.com
The reconciliation bill working its way through Congress could cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by nearly a gigaton by 2030, according t...

WattBuy Secures $10 Million to Drive Clean Energy Innovation

 www.businesswire.com
WattBuy, a clean energy platform that empowers consumers to choose more sustainable, affordable energy options, today announced it has ra...
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October

12

Decarbon Daily - Upcoming Energy Earnings

Halliburton and VoltaGrid enter multi-year contract with Aethon

www.worldoil.com
Halliburton Company and VoltaGrid LLC have entered into a multi-year contract with Aethon Energy to deploy an advanced, all-electric frac...

Tesla (TSLA) Breaks Record in China, Resulting in Massive Delivery Expectation Beat

 electrek.co
Tesla has achieved an impressive new delivery record in China, which has greatly contributed to the automaker’s massive delivery expectat...

DuPont Signs VPPA With NextEra Energy

 www.renewableenergymagazine.com
DuPont has signed a virtual power purchase agreement with a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources, LLC with a generation capacity of the...

ABB Launches the World’s Fastest Electric Car Charger

 new.abb.com
ABB is today launching an innovative all-in-one Electric Vehicle (EV) charger, which provides the fastest charging experience on the mark...
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October

11

Decarbon Daily - Hydrogen & Infrastructure Deals

Ara Partners Acquires Fluitron to Build Global Platform of Hydrogen Infrastructure Solutions

 www.prnewswire.com
Ara Partners ("Ara"), a private equity firm that specializes in industrial decarbonization investments, today announced that it has acqui...

In a World Fighting Climate Change, Fossil Fuels Take Revenge

 www.bloomberg.com
With its chimneys towering 200 meters above the industrial heartland of England, West Burton A power station is a relic of the fossil fue...

Chart receives $5m funding by DOE for carbon capture tech

 www.gasworld.com
US-based industrial gas equipment manufacturer Chart Industries has been awarded $4,999,875 by the US Department of Energy (DOE) for its ...

EV Maker WM Motor to Raise $500 Million in Series D

 technode.com
Chinese electric vehicle maker WM Motor is about to close a $500 million Series D. The funding involves two rounds. The company is expect...

ChargePoint Closes Acquisition of has.to.be

 www.privateequitywire.co.uk
ChargePoint Holdings, an electric vehicle (EV) charging network operating in North America and Europe, has closed its previously announce...

R.W. Mercer Acquires Electrical Company

 grbj.com
R.W. Mercer Co., a construction company in Jackson, acquired the assets of its subcontractor West Michigan Electrical Systems Inc. Cedar ...
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