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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

theogm.com
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

finance.yahoo.com
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...

September

20

Decarbon Daily - Sustainability Fund, EnerVenue, & Atlana AI

EnerVenue Raises $100m to Accelerate Clean Energy Using Nickel Hydrogen Batteries

techcrunch.com
In order to support a buildout of renewable energy, which tends to over-generate electricity at certain times of day and under-generate a...

DESRI Acquires 300-MW Solar Project with 150 MW Storage in New Mexico

renewablesnow.com
US renewable energy asset owner D E Shaw Renewable Investments (DESRI) has completed the acquisition of the Arroyo project which combines...

'Terawatts Mindset' as Lightsource BP Bags $1.8bn to Double Solar Growth Goal

www.rechargenews.com
Lightsource BP – the solar developer 50% owned by the oil supermajor – announced a more than doubling in growth ambitions.

Altana AI Raises $15M Series A Investment to Build the Single Source of Truth On the Global Supply Chain

www.prnewswire.com
Altana AI has secured $15 million in Series A funding, led by GV (formerly Google Ventures). Floating Point, Ridgeline Partners, and exis...

America’s Next Hot Import Might Be Record Energy Prices

www.wsj.com
Today’s high energy prices could be a preview of coming attractions—a real horror movie if this winter is cold. Benchmark U.S. natural-ga...

Big Money Flows into Long-duration Energy Storage

www.greenbiz.com
Long-duration energy storage — defined as a system that can store energy for more than 10 hours — is often called the Holy Grail of clean...

September

17

Decarbon Daily - CCS Projects, Emissions, & Climate Trace

BloombergNEF, Schneider Electric Outline Steps Needed to Expand Rooftop Solar

www.environmentalleader.com
A joint report by research firm BloombergNEF and Schneider Electric entitled Realizing the Potential of Customer-Sited Solar found that 1...

PepsiCo to Reduce Plastic Use, Launch Plant-based Snacks in Green Push

www.reuters.com
PepsiCo (PEP.O) will cut back on the use of virgin plastic and expand its SodaStream carbonated-water business to more markets amid growi...

Carbon Capture and Storage Gains Wide Industry Support in Houston

www.prnewswire.com
Eleven companies have expressed interest in supporting the large-scale deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology in Houst...

Climate Trace Launches Global Emission Monitoring for Radical Transparency

www.climatetrace.org
Climate Trace makes meaningful climate action faster and easier by harnessing technology to track greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions with unp...

Carbon Emitters 'Failing to Disclose Climate Risks'

www.bbc.com
A lack of detail in financial reporting will dramatically reduce firms' chances of meeting global emissions targets, researchers have war...

What’s Next for Natural Gas with Prices at Their Highest in over 7 Years

www.marketwatch.com
Natural-gas prices reached their highest levels in more than seven years thanks to a slow recovery in Gulf of Mexico production after an ...

September

16

Decarbon Daily - Decarbonization Themes Part 3

Emerging Climate Technology Framework

www.cdp.net
CDP’s model of disclosure, insight, and action drives the acceleration of solutions, and we have seen through our involvement with the SB...

API Climate Action Framework

www.api.org
The challenge of meeting the world’s growing need for energy while simultaneously ushering in a lower-carbon future is massive, intertwin...

EPA GHG Reduction Programs & Strategies

www.epa.gov
A wide range of strategies are available to help organizations reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Below are a list of resources...

Our World in Data: CO2 and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

ourworldindata.org
How are emissions changing in each country? Is your country making progress on reducing emissions? We built 207 country profiles which al...

September

15

Decarbon Daily - EVs, Mining, and Supply Chains

EV Battery Prices Risk Reversing Downward Trend as Metals Surge

www.bloomberg.com
Electric vehicles are generally more expensive than gas vehicles today, mainly because the batteries they use are expensive. This is why ...

The Major Problems Blocking America’s Electric Car Future

www.linkedin.com
Just a decade and a half ago, the then-CEO of General Motors Co. Rick Wagoner observed to Larry Burns, at the time GM’s head of research ...

The Energy Transition in Mining

newlab.com
Mining companies around the globe have strengthened their corporate sustainability goals in recent months amid concerns to act on climate...

Miners Race for Nickel as Electric Car Revolution Looms

www.ft.com
In remote northern Ontario, hundreds of kilometers from the nearest railway or paved road, the world’s largest mining group and an Austra...

Fuel for Thought: Energy Transition, Like Oil, Needs Strategic Reserves

www.spglobal.com
A military coup in West Africa has underscored the potential benefits of stockpiling critical and strategic metals essential for the ener...

Electric Mine Consortium

www.electricmine.com
Electrification is key to the clean energy transformation of mine sites. The road to zero emissions requires the use of vehicles and mach...

September

14

Decarbon Daily - Gulf Coast Hurricane + Low-carbon Investments

U.S. Gulf Coast Energy Firms Face Another Hurricane Hit

www.reuters.com
Evacuations were underway on Monday from offshore U.S. Gulf of Mexico oil platforms as onshore oil refiners began preparing for rain and ...

Road to COP: Hydrogen Comes Faster Than You Think

shows.acast.com
At this fall’s United Nations climate summit, world leaders will seek to take concrete steps to fight global warming. Green hydrogen coul...

Chevron to Triple Low-carbon Investment

www.wsj.com
Chevron Corp. is tripling spending in its new low-carbon unit, which Chief Executive Mike Wirth said he increasingly sees as a viable bus...

The Hollow Promise of Net-zero Carbon Pledges

www.cnbc.com
Countries and corporations around the globe are talking up their climate credentials, pledging to achieve “net-zero” carbon emissions or ...

This Solar-powered Pavement Harvests Energy from Under Your Feet

www.euronews.com
A company in Hungary is making solar panels out of plastic waste - then using them as pavements. The Platio team says it can power buildi...

The Landfill Group and LS Power Announce Renewable Natural Gas Project in Greenville County

greenvillejournal.com
The Landfill Group and LS Power announced Sept. 9 that Enerdyne Power Systems, a landfill group company based in Charlotte, has started c...

September

13

Decarbon Daily - M&A Trends, Caterpillar, & Energy SPAC

Caterpillar (CAT) Acquires CarbonPoint Solutions

www.streetinsider.com
Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) has acquired Enhanced Energy Group, Inc. operating as "CarbonPoint Solutions," a U.S.-based carbon capture t...

Novus Capital Acquires California Energy Storage Startup for $1+ Billion

www.insideindianabusiness.com
Indianapolis-based Novus Capital Corp. II (NYSE: NXU) has announced plans to acquire California-based startup Energy Vault Inc. in a deal...

Briggs & Stratton acquires energy storage manufacturer SimpliPhi Power

www.solarpowerworldonline.com
Small engine and generator producer Briggs & Stratton has acquired SimpliPhi Power, a lithium-iron phosphate energy storage manufacturer....

LG Energy Solution Acquires Former Market Leader NEC Energy Solutions

www.energy-storage.news
LG Energy Solution has acquired NEC Energy Solutions (NEC ES), the NEC Corporation subsidiary focused on energy storage which announced i...

Talos Energy (TALO) Acquires CCS Project in Offshore Texas

www.nasdaq.com
Talos Energy Inc. TALO and partner Carbonvert Inc. have been awarded the lease on a carbon capture and storage (“CCS”) project on the Gul...

Energy SPAC Black Mountain Acquisition files for a $200 million IPO

www.renaissancecapital.com
Black Mountain Acquisition, a blank check company formed by the founder of the Black Mountain Entities, filed on Friday with the SEC to r...

September

10

Decarbon Daily - $95M Awards, Solugen, and Walmart's $2B Green Bond

Assessing the Relative Climate Impact of Carbon Utilization for Concrete, Chemical, and Mineral Production

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Estimates show that 6.2 gigatons of carbon dioxide (CO2) can be captured and utilized across three pathways, concrete, chemical, and mine...

Increasing the Efficiency of Chemical Reactions To Help Decarbonize Fuels and Chemicals

scitechdaily.com
Electrochemical reactions that are accelerated using catalysts lie at the heart of many processes for making and using fuels, chemicals, ...

Founders Factory and G-Force Launch Seed Program for Climate Focused Startups

techcrunch.com
U.K. tech accelerator Founders Factory is joining forces with a European counterpart to launch the Founders Factory Sustainability Seed p...

Solugen Raises Over $350 Million in Series C Funding Led by Baillie Gifford & GIC to Make Carbon Negative Chemicals

www.prnewswire.com
Today, Solugen, the company decarbonizing the chemicals industry, announced a Series C financing round of over $350 million. GIC and Bail...

Walmart Secures $2 Billion Green Bond

www.environmentalleader.com
Walmart has priced the company’s first green bond, a $2 billion offering intended to advance its goal of achieving total renewable energy...

Chevron, Caterpillar Announce Collaboration Agreement on Hydrogen

www.chevron.com
Chevron U.S.A. Inc., a subsidiary of Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX), and Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) today announced a collaboration ag...

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