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

Power reliability is moving into credit analysis as lenders and rating analysts assess whether facilities can keep operating when the grid cannot.

Data center growth is drawing fresh scrutiny from nearby communities. Health, noise, water use and power demands are now central to project approvals and zoning.

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

Bioeconomy strategies are expanding in 76 countries, but new research finds governance gaps around land, genetic resources, data and benefit sharing.

Grid constraints are forcing facilities to separate electricity procurement from reliability and budget for storage, backup power and redundancy.

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.

AI growth is forcing data centers to rethink power, cooling, and water. Energy Concepts says Plato5X could move more infrastructure on site to ease grid delays.

Denver Public Schools is adding 25 electric buses as grant funding shifts the fleet decision from upfront cost toward long-term operating economics.

Florida's SunTrax testing campus is adding an eVTOL flight track to its autonomous vehicle program, part of a federal AAM pilot spanning 26 U.S. states.

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

Volatile power and gas markets are making contract renewal timing a financial risk, pushing companies toward continuous energy hedging strategies.

Peak Energy will build a sodium-ion storage factory in Sacramento, a $71 million plant expected to create 239 jobs and produce 4 GWh of capacity yearly.

Companies revisiting legacy PPAs face different power prices, tighter capacity, and more competition, changing how replacement contracts should be valued.

Fixed supplier pricing transfers commodity risk, but companies with hedgeable inputs may gain more control by separating market exposure from supplier costs.

Spain’s first HRS system pasteurizes 220 metric tons of digestate daily. Heat recovery may cut thermal demand and support fertilizer reuse for regional growers.

Long-term corporate PPAs can create fixed, debt-like obligations that affect adjusted leverage, a growing concern for CFOs evaluating energy contracts.