Smart meters and distributed solar are reaching clinics, factories, and households faster than utilities and regulators can align on cyber readiness. Drawing on World Bank sector assessment practice, Lior Tabansky argues coordination has to come before the next rollout wave — not after.
Honda and QuantumScape are deepening solid-state battery research. The work could shape future EV batteries, but scale remains the real test.
World Athletics' 2026 midpoint review shows what happens when sustainability stops being a pledge and becomes a contractual deliverable embedded in event hosting requirements.
Colorado CDPHE is accepting applications for its Environmental Justice Grant Program, funding up to 10 projects in pollution-impacted communities.
Many organizations entered 2026 expecting normalization. Q2 suggests the second half will be defined by adaptation rather than recovery.
For years, organizations optimized for efficiency. In today's operating environment, excess capacity is increasingly becoming a strategic asset organizations can't quickly replicate.
Rock Tech’s Victory option adds lithium upside in Northwestern Ontario. The deal supports its push to link exploration with future conversion capacity.
A new University of Wyoming project highlights how DOE increasingly views coal plants as platforms for critical minerals, water savings, and carbon capture.
Illinois HB1700 expands state authority over renewable energy siting disputes, signaling a broader shift toward accelerating project development.
For years, uncertainty justified delay. Increasingly, uncertainty itself is becoming the cost organizations can no longer afford to absorb.
The projects moving forward in the second half of 2026 are increasingly defined by infrastructure readiness, permitting certainty, and execution feasibility rather than projected returns alone.
Environmental self-disclosure has evolved from a compliance checkbox into a strategic risk-management tool that shapes deal valuation, indemnity structures, and transaction certainty. Here's how EPA, DOJ, and state audit policies factor into M&A decision-making.
Smart hydrants are giving utilities a sharper view of aging networks. McWane’s iHydrantPlus supports leak detection, pressure monitoring and faster response.
BOEM published a Request for Information June 23 on potential seabed mineral leasing off Virginia, covering 2,764 square miles near Chesapeake Bay. Comments close July 23.
Planned 2027 launch builds on experience supporting more than 25 utility-led virtual power plant programs in the United States
A structural cost coverage gap in the EU's Extended Producer Responsibility framework is leaving recyclers underfunded, just as the Circular Economy Act opens for reform.
The biggest risk entering H2 may not be execution. It may be relying on planning assumptions that no longer reflect operating conditions.
Grid capacity limits, water constraints, permitting delays, and capital deployment challenges are increasingly converging on the same projects.
The Williams Treaties First Nations announced a $700 million investment in Ontario's Darlington SMR project, backed by the largest Indigenous loan guarantee ever issued in Canada.
Meta will buy attributes from two planned Sabanci solar projects. The Texas deal adds 220 MWac as data center power demand grows.