Understaffed permitting agencies are becoming as important to site selection as tax incentives, with air permits now waiting years for a reviewer.

Maryland opened bidding for Key Bridge demolition work, the second of four rebuild contracts in a $4.3B to $5.2B project set to open by late 2030.

Micron's two-year fab delay shows why construction lenders now scrutinize schedules, contingency levels and completion timelines on major projects.

Smart DRS has processed 150,000 reusable cup returns in four months. The system is now being tested across festivals, arenas and seasonal venues.

A fresh $500 million DOE funding round targets electrolyte production, a battery supply segment still dominated by China, as Anthro breaks ground in Kentucky.

Michigan SB 1046 would require annual public reporting of water used by each data center beginning in 2027 as the state's development pipeline accelerates.

Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America and Horizon seek FERC approval for a $438.5 million pipeline expansion serving Wisconsin Electric Power Company.

Amazon is expanding its Louisiana data center investment to $18 billion, adding a third campus as questions persist over who pays for new grid capacity.

Pennsylvania will withhold data center permits unless developers pay their own power costs, secure local approval and meet new GRID Requirements.

Novisto is bringing double materiality assessments into its ESG software. The platform helps teams log evidence, scoring and disclosures as requirements evolve.

New research is shifting space-based solar power from theoretical generation toward harder questions about power beaming, regulation and grid integration.

Grupo Bimbo expanded regenerative agriculture to more than 500,000 hectares in 2025 while advancing water reuse, electrification and waste reduction.

Anheuser-Busch sent more than 155,000 cans of emergency drinking water to Ohio and Washington within days, as floods and wildfires strained communities.

Ireland's new data center connection rules require generation or storage to match grid demand, changing the economics of digital infrastructure investment.

Georgia Transmission awards a new 230-kV switching station in southwest Georgia as rising loads and new generation drive grid investment statewide.

Falling battery prices and rising outage losses are changing how facilities and finance teams should calculate the return on energy storage investments.

Kimberly-Clark is testing hesperaloe as a potential tissue fiber. The move could reduce wood-pulp use while adding a new option to its supply chain at scale.

Power availability and PPA terms are becoming more consequential in transaction and underwriting decisions as electricity constraints affect asset value.

Nigeria's distributed energy programs target 465 MW of new capacity as $1.3 billion in investment commitments build a power market beyond the grid.

Data center leases can pass utility rate, demand, capacity and transmission costs to tenants, creating power exposure enterprise buyers may overlook.