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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

October

08

Decarbon Daily - Zero Carbon Polyethylene, Steel, & More

Nucor Launches Econiq™ Net-Zero Steel

www.nucor.com
Nucor Corporation (NYSE: NUE) announced today the launch of Econiq™, a line of net-zero carbon steel products. Building the green economy...

Congo's $6 Billion China Mining Deal 'Unconscionable', Says Draft Report

www.reuters.com
Democratic Republic of Congo should renegotiate its $6 billion infrastructure-for-minerals deal with Chinese investors, according to the ...

TruckLabs Raises $15M Series A to Bring Aerodynamic, Fuel-Saving Device to Millions more Trucks

finance.yahoo.com
TruckLabs, a technology company helping transform the trucking industry, announced today that it has raised a $15 million Series A round ...

BP Leads $25 Million Series A Round in EV Ride-hailing and Charging Startup BluSmart

www.livemint.com
BP Ventures, the venture capital firm of energy major BP, has invested $13 million in integrated EV ride-hailing and charging company Blu...

Riskonnect Acquires ESG Technology Firm ICIX

www.insurancejournal.com
Integrated risk management software firm Riskonnect has acquired ICIX, a California-based value chain governance company that helps busin...

Fort Worth Company Acquires a Leading Construction Firm in Renewable Energy Industry

fortworthbusiness.com
Bridgelink Engineering LLC on Oct. 8 announced the acquisition of BCR Companies, a leading construction company in the renewable energy i...

October

07

Decarbon Daily - Toyota Ventures, Electrifying, & Hydrogen

BP Acquires Renewable Energy Technology Company Blueprint Power

www.marketwatch.com
BP PLC said Thursday that it has acquired U.S.-based technology company Blueprint Power, which helps turn commercial buildings into flexi...

DroneSeed Raises $36M in Series A Funding Round

www.finsmes.com
DroneSeed, a Seattle, WA-based climate tech and post-wildfire reforestation company, raised $36m in Series A funding. The round was le...

CH4 Global Announces US$13M Series A Funding to Accelerate Its Mission to Dramatically Reduce Manmade Methane Emissions

www.businesswire.com
CH4 Global, a pioneer in utilizing seaweed to drastically reduce ruminant methane emissions, today announced that it has raised US$13 mil...

Climate-tech Start-up Normative Raises €10 million in Lead up to COP26

www.standard.co.uk
"Start-up Normative has raised €10 million from climate-tech investors to fuel expansion in the lead up to COP26. The Stockholm-based ...

CarbonBuilt Closes $10 Million Series A Financing

www.globenewswire.com
CarbonBuilt has raised $10 million in Series A funding, led by Grantham Environmental Trust’s Neglected Climate Opportunities, with parti...

RepAir Carbon closes $1.5m Seed Round to Develop Cell for Modular Direct Air Capture Inspired by Fuel Cell Technology

www.prnewswire.com
RepAir Carbon, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based modular Direct Air Capture technology company, raised $1,5M in Seed funding. The round was led by...

October

06

Decarbon Daily - California Collision, Battery Demand, & $1B SAF

Delta Purchases More than $1 billion Worth of Sustainable Aviation Fuel

www.environmentalleader.com
Delta Airlines has entered into a 10-year contract with renewable fuels company Aemetis, worth more than $1 billion, to source sustainabl...

Ford Motor and South Korea-Based SK Innovation Plan Kentucky and Tennessee Electric Battery Vehicle Plants

www.areadevelopment.com
Ford Motor Company and South Korea-Based SK Innovation will invest a total of $11.4 billion to develop and build electric vehicle batteri...

Lithium Jumps Again as Miners Can’t Keep Up With Battery Boom

finance.yahoo.com
Prices have more than doubled in the past year, according to a Benchmark Mineral Intelligence index of lithium carbonate and hydroxide. D...

Factbox: Electric Vehicle Batteries: Major Players and Their Expansion Plans

whbl.com
The global auto industry’s shift to electric vehicles (EVs) has spurred an expansion race among battery makers, and caused a growing a sk...

October

05

Decarbon Daily - Energy Entrepreneurs + Natgas Prices

Did an Anchor Strike the Pipeline? Cause of California Oil Spill Catastrophe Could be Determined Today

www.usatoday.com
Authorities could determine as soon as Tuesday the cause of the pipeline breach that spilled more than 140,000 gallons of oil off the Sou...

European Natural Gas Prices Hit New Records as Supply Concerns Grow

www.worldoil.com
Global fuel shortages are resulting in surging energy prices, disrupting markets from the UK to China, as economies emerge from the pande...

Global Supply Disruptions Could Still Get Worse, Central Bankers Warn

www.reuters.com
Supply constraints thwarting global economic growth could still get worse, keeping inflation elevated longer, even if the current spike i...

ABB Joins Widespread Call to Accelerate Shipping Decarbonization

gcaptain.com
ABB has joined more than 155 companies urging governments to help shipping decarbonize by 2050. The Call to Action for Shipping Decarboni...

October

04

Decarbon Daily - California Oil Spill & Renewables M&A

Adani Green Acquires SB Energy, India's Largest Renewables M&A Deal

www.business-standard.com
Just last week, Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani had announced that the Group would invest over $ 20 billion across the next 10 years in...

Earthstone Energy (ESTE) Acquires Assets in Midland Basin for $73.2M In Cash and Stock

www.streetinsider.com
Earthstone Energy, Inc. (NYSE: ESTE) today announced that it has entered into definitive agreements to acquire privately held operated as...

Metacon Acquires 100% of the Electrolysis Company Water2H2 AB

www.marketscreener.com
Metacon has completed the acquisition of the associated company Water2H2 AB. Metacon has already held 20% of the shares in Water2H2 and h...

CATL Acquires Mineral Resources Company Millennial Lithium

www.electrive.com
CATL takes over the Canadian mining company Millennial Lithium and pays 376.8 million Canadian dollars (about €254.5 million) for the acq...

Olympic Steel Acquires Shaw Stainless & Alloy

www.businesswire.com
Olympic Steel Inc. (Nasdaq: ZEUS), a leading national metals service center, today announced that it has acquired the assets of Shaw Stai...

Enbridge Advances U.S. Gulf Coast: Acquires North America’s Premier Crude Export Facility

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Enbridge Inc. announces that it has entered into a definitive purchase agreement with EnCap Flatrock Midstream to acquire Moda Midstream ...

October

01

Decarbon Daily - Partners in Change

Joe Manchin Says His Spending, Climate Stance Should Be No Surprise

www.wsj.com
Sen. Joe Manchin’s cards were laid on the table Thursday. And the centrist Democrat from a solidly Republican, coal-producing state said ...

Australian Mining Giants Back Net-zero Target

phys.org
Australia's powerful mining sector has backed a 2050 net-zero carbon target, heaping pressure on the country's coal-championing governmen...

IEA Roadmaps 'Clear Pathway' for China to Reach Net-zero 'Well Ahead' of 2060 Target

www.rechargenews.com
Paris-based agency in new report says seven-fold hike in renewables could help Asian superpower to reach emissions peak as early as 2025

Westbridge Energy Acquires 221 MWp Texas Solar Project

www.yahoo.com
Westbridge Energy Corporation (TSXV: WEB) www.westbridge.energy ("Westbridge" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that its wholly-ow...

Quinbrook Acquires Major 350MW UK Solar-plus-storage Site

www.pv-tech.org
Investment manager Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners has acquired a 350MW solar-plus-storage site expected to be the largest single site ...

Australia to ‘Turbocharge’ CCUS Tech

www.gasworld.com
As Governments and industry worldwide further commit to lower carbon emissions ahead of net zero 2030 and 2050 targets, Australia has giv...

September

30

Decarbon Daily - Decarbonization Themes Part 5

OPEC September Oil Output Rises on Nigerian Rebound, OPEC+ Boost

www.reuters.com
OPEC oil output rose in September to its highest since April 2020, a Reuters survey found, as Nigerian output recovered from involuntary ...

$80 Oil is Sending the Market Toward Demand Destruction, Morgan Stanley Says

www.cnbc.com
With winter ahead and a gas crunch in Europe, the demand picture appears promising. But demand destruction could be imminent as prices cl...

Westwood Webinars – Focus on Offshore Wind, with Subsea UK

www.westwoodenergy.com
Presenting Westwood & Subsea UK’s webinar session ‘Focus on Offshore Wind’. hosted by Neil Gordon of Subsea UK, with presentations from W...

Biden Renewables Plan May Hit Floating Tech Troubles

www.eenews.net
Almost half of the Biden administration’s target for new offshore wind construction could arrive in the form of floating turbines, a tech...

September

29

Decarbon Daily - Data Fatigue or Data Hungry?

Satellite-based Remote Sensing for Energy Infrastructure

www.dnv.com
The energy companies of the future are using emerging digital technology to lower operational costs in asset management and operation. Sa...

Phantom Space Announces Agreement to Build and Launch 72 Satellite Constellation for Ingenu

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Phantom Space Corporation, a space transportation technology development and manufacturing company, today announced that they signed an a...

How Space and Satellite Innovation in Scotland can Tackle Global Climate Change

futurescot.com
When it comes to space, the news is often dominated by the antics of billionaires keen to secure their legacies. Yet blasting oneself int...

How Palantir's Edge-AI Technology Leverages Satellites to Protect the Globe

www.fool.com
Palantir's Meta-Constellation software harnesses the power of satellites to monitor and protect the planet. Should PLTR be in your portfo...

September

28

Decarbon Daily - Road to COP26, Renewables, & Carbon Offsets

Excelsior Energy Capital Acquires Tax Equity Interests in Existing Portfolio Investment

www.valdostadailytimes.com
Excelsior Energy Capital (“Excelsior”), a leading independent North American renewable energy investor, announced today that its flagship...

The Story of Renewables in India is Incomplete without Energy Storage

www.energy-storage.news
India’s government will launch its first 1,000MW pilot tender to procure energy storage within a matter of weeks, Ministry of Power joint...

Bank of America: Carbon Offset Market may Need to Grow Fiftyfold to Meet 2050 Net-zero Emissions Goals

www.cnbc.com
The carbon offset market may need to grow by as much as 50 times if companies are going to meet 2050 net-zero greenhouse gas emissions go...

US Pharma Giants Combat Emissions Crisis with Long-term Net-zero Pledges

www.spglobal.com
The largest U.S. drugmakers have all committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the near term as a global economic forum drew atte...

Petronas Champions Low-carbon Energy Production with CCUS

themalaysianreserve.com
The Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) technologies are crucial in clean energy transitions. According to a recent report by ...

New 10GW Green Hydrogen Project in Mauritania Could Include Africa's First Offshore Wind Farm

www.rechargenews.com
An oil & gas developer has been granted exclusive rights to develop a green hydrogen project of up to 10GW in Mauritania that could inclu...

September

27

Decarbon Daily - Green Hydrogen, Polestar, & Oil at $90?

Prometheus Fuels is First Electrofuels Unicorn, Closes Series B

prometheusfuels.com
We’re excited to announce the close of our Series B funding round, with investment by Maersk, Metaplanet, and BMW. As a result of the rou...

Oil Prices Continue Surge; Goldman Sachs Lifts Target to $90 a Barrel

www.marketwatch.com
Brent crude traded at a nearly three-year high Monday as oil prices continued to rally in the wake of disruptions to production in the Gu...

N.Y. hydrogen, CCS Proposals Could Set National Precedent

www.eenews.net
New York is weighing a new program to build out emerging technologies like hydrogen and carbon capture, a development that puts the state...

U.S. DOE Announces $12m Boost to Geothermal Energy Research

www.thinkgeoenergy.com
Funding of $12 million has been announced for 6 universities and one national laboratory to help research projects to advance commerciali...

EV Maker Polestar Strikes $20-bln Deal with Gores Guggenheim SPAC

www.reuters.com
Swedish electric-car maker Polestar said on Monday it will go public by merging with a U.S.-listed blank-check firm backed by billionaire...

Live Oak Crestview Climate Acquisition Corp. Announces Pricing of $200,000,000 Initial Public Offering

www.prnewswire.com
Live Oak Crestview Climate Acquisition Corp. (the "Company"), a blank check company formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital...

September

24

Decarbon Daily - Commercial EVs, Bitcoin Mining, & Decarbonization Paths

Natural Gas Shortages Threaten Governments’ Green Goals

www.economist.com
Yet another crucial global market has gone from glut to shortage at breakneck speed. Last September in Europe it cost €119 ($139) to buy ...

Synfuel Plant Expansion will make it Largest CCUS Project to Store Captured Carbon Underground

www.willistonherald.com
When it comes to cracking the code on carbon capture, North Dakota’s Project Tundra is often mentioned. But, there is another project tha...

Mining Billionaire Spearheads Global Green Hydrogen Push

www.bloomberg.com
Iron ore billionaire Andrew Forrest and former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will spearhead a new global body to promote gre...

Boral on Ambitious Pathway to Decarbonization

www.agg-net.com
Company sets global sector-leading emissions-reduction targets and commits to net zero. Boral have set the most ambitious emissions reduc...

Diesel, Decarbonization, and the Path Forward for Cummins

www.fleetequipmentmag.com
The trucking industry is moving toward greater decarbonization and taking its first steps into electrification that doesn’t depend on fos...

For Carnival and the Cruise Industry, 'Total Focus' on Decarbonization: Arnold Donald

www.seatrade-cruise.com
We're totally focused as a company and an industry on getting to zero emissions,' Carnival Corp. & plc's Arnold Donald told the World Tra...

September

23

Decarbon Daily - Decarbonization Themes Part 4

Ara Partners Closes Second Fund With $1.1 Billion of Capital Commitments

www.prnewswire.com
Ara Partners ("Ara"), a private equity firm specializing in industrial decarbonization investments, today announced the closing of Ara Fu...

DuPont Announces Virtual Power Purchase Agreement for Renewable Energy

www.dupont.com
DuPont (NYSE: DD) today announced that it has signed a virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) with a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resour...

SRP Signs Contract for its Largest Solar Power Plant in Arizona

media.srpnet.com
On the heels of announcing signed agreements for three new solar power plants in Arizona, SRP today announced its largest standalone sola...

Talen Energy Corporation and Cumulus Growth Secure $175 Million of Capital from Orion Energy Partners

talenenergy.investorroom.com
Talen Energy Corporation ("Talen") and its wholly-owned subsidiary Cumulus Growth Holdings LLC ("Cumulus Growth") announced today that th...

September

22

Decarbon Daily - A Primer on H2

Siemens Begins Work on 8.75MW Green Hydrogen Plant in Germany

www.power-technology.com
On Friday 9 July, Siemens held a ceremony to commemorate the start of construction at its Wunsiedel green hydrogen plant, a facility whic...

Ørsted and US Gas Giant Williams to Explore Power-to-X Projects

www.windpowermonthly.com
Ørsted has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Oklahoma-based natural gas operator Williams to explore the potential for deve...

Green Hydrogen and Carbon Prices

xenetwork.org
We’ve all heard about the potential of “green” hydrogen — hydrogen produced from carbon-free sources — to help decarbonize the ways we us...

Gniewomir Flis - a Twitter thread on Hydrogen

twitter.com
Everything you wanted to know about the #hydrogen economy but were too busy to research. Part 2: International hydrogen markets could be ...

Major Green Hydrogen Facility Planned for California

www.gasworld.com
Plans have been unveiled for what is believed to be the largest green hydrogen facility on the west coast of the US. Plug Power on Monday...

Ineos to Invest $1.4 billion in Blue Hydrogen Production at Grangemouth Refinery

www.spglobal.com
Ineos plans to produce and use low-carbon hydrogen at its Grangemouth refinery and petrochemical plant in Scotland, in combination with t...

September

21

Decarbon Daily - Shell Exits Permian, Generac, & Surge

Shell signs agreement to sell Permian interest for $9.5 billion to ConocoPhillips

www.shell.com
Shell Enterprises LLC, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc, has reached an agreement for the sale of its Permian business to ConocoPhil...

Surge Battery Metals Acquires an 80% Option on the San Emidio Lithium Project

finance.yahoo.com
Surge Battery Metals Inc. is pleased to announce that it has entered into an option agreement with Lithium Corporation dated September 16...

Generac to Acquire Tank Utility, Inc.

media.generac.com
Generac Holdings Inc. (NYSE: GNRC) (“Generac” or the “Company”), a leading global designer and manufacturer of energy technology solution...

Dominion Energy acquires Virginia’s largest battery storage project

www.smart-energy.com
US utility Dominion Energy has acquired a 20MW/80MWh energy storage project from developer East Point Energy. Once operational in 2022, t...

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