EIB backs Rezolv's 1.3 GWp Dama Solar with $113 million
The loan anchors an $822 million project in Arad County, where two 15-year contracts for difference cover 520 MW of the planned capacity.
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Stegra needs more capital for Boden green steel plant after 100-day review
The Swedish developer, which closed a €1.4 billion round in June, says completing the project will cost significantly more than assumed.
Amazon signs 20-year PPA for Calvert Cliffs nuclear uprate
The 690 MW purchase supports a 190 MW addition due online between 2030 and 2032 and Constellation's bid to relicense the 1,790 MW Maryland plant.
UK banks provided $8.3bn to coal companies over 2022–2025 as European lending fell 46%
Urgewald's count of 744 commercial banks puts global financing of the coal value chain at an estimated $467bn for the period, with Barclays and HSBC named as increasing their exposure.
EIB and BNP Paribas split a $794m guarantee portfolio for EU grid equipment
Each institution takes up to $397 million of exposure inside a $1.70 billion pan-EU grid package supported by InvestEU.
Cowboy Clean Fuels sells its first durable carbon removal credits in Salesforce-backed deal
The Wyoming producer stores carbon in depleted coalbed methane reservoirs while producing renewable natural gas, with delivery scheduled for 2026.
UK commits $3.3 billion over five years to build a fusion industry
The five-year package spans research programmes, specialist facilities and the STEP prototype at West Burton, though commercial cost viability remains unproven.
Reverion raises $175 million Series B for 250 MW fuel-cell factory
Most of the round funds a plant that lifts annual manufacturing capacity tenfold, while seven commercial units operate in the field.
Andy Burnham to announce £4bn public finance body for the grid
The money would come out of Great British Energy's existing £8.3bn pot, which already carries a £2.5bn nuclear carve-out.
Reverion raises $175 million Series B led by Kembara for German fuel-cell factory
The Munich spin-off says most of the round will fund a megafactory that lifts manufacturing capacity tenfold to 250 MW, with Allianz, KfW Capital and Carbon Equity among new investors.
ImpactAlpha calls IQM's Nasdaq debut a crowning moment for World Fund
The post frames the Berlin venture firm as doubling down on decarbonization and deep tech, though the provided excerpt states no fund size, target, or stake.
Germany, Austria and Luxembourg open $2.5bn e-SAF price-gap scheme
Germany would supply up to $2.4 billion of the total, while the mechanism still needs European Commission state aid approval.
ADM bets the audit trail, not the tonnage
Puro.earth certification, expected by the end of 2026, sets the terms for a 15-year credit stream from Columbus, Nebraska.
ESB's first EU green bond is a template, not a funding event
The $575 million is small against a $23 billion capital plan; the disclosure file behind it is what the market will copy.
Hong Kong is industrializing tokenized debt, not just issuing it
The platform launching by year-end is what converts a government bond program into an industry template, and no bank syndicate has an incentive to build it alone.
J.P. Morgan puts $200 million into Paraguay timber with carbon as upside
Three revenue lines, three different risks — but only the timber and processing legs sit fully inside the partners' control.
Berlin's €2 billion buys eSAF a price, not a plant
The scheme funds a price gap rather than a capital stack, and the tenor its auction awards will matter more than the headline number.
Canada moves to build rails for carbon credit exports
Ottawa is drafting the plumbing for internationally transferred mitigation outcomes while leaving the demand side of the market unaddressed.
Grassroots Carbon's 40-million-acre goal rests on 10 million verified acres
The carbon market's bottleneck has moved from credit supply to assurance, and the company's own split between enrolled and verified acres makes that plain.
Navitas bets $1.04 billion on the middle of the solar chain
The $125 million cell line at Sisodara carries the program's first deadline and its credibility.
Schroders built adaptation's investability screen, not its market size
A 95-of-102 cost-benefit hit rate is not an investability finding—that is the framework's real contribution.
Exelon's climate arm backs the vendor it will deploy
The stake in Continuum matters less as a venture bet than as a procurement channel with equity attached.
Ares takes 80% of EDPR's contracted solar and storage portfolio
The 20-year offtake contracts set the underwriting; the risk to watch is the offtaker's balance sheet.
Latin America's climate finance doubled, then stalled
Flows reached $108 billion in 2024, flat against 2023, while fossil fuels took $95 billion and land use outside Brazil ran 125 times short of need.
Metris raises $5 million to own the data layer under European renewables
A small seed round against a large thesis: that the returns in European renewables now sit in the software that reconciles the assets.
ADM sells carbon removal's scarcest input: the audit trail
The Nebraska programme puts an agricultural processor in the durable-credit business on the strength of a Class VI permit history that predates the market it is now entering.
Verdane buys into Xpansiv's registry rollup without naming a price
The raise carries no disclosed size, which leaves Xpansiv's next acquisition — registry, execution desk, or data layer — as the real test of where the rails are heading.
Victoria Makes Data Centres Bring Their Own Power
By moving grid and generation costs onto developers, the state filters its AI build-out down to the firms that need the least help.
DFIs rally private climate capital as the US backstop wavers
Washington is leaning on the multilateral banks, but the structures that pull private money in still depend on someone absorbing the first loss.
Voluntary carbon's squeeze is a supply filter, not fading demand
Roughly one issued credit in five clears the criteria buyers now apply, and that scarcity is where the pricing power sits.
Vaulted Deep's $35M turns a carbon offtake into loan collateral
A purchase contract as collateral puts performance risk and the industry's build-out in the hands of lenders who now read offtakes the way they read power purchase agreements.
Mombak's $150 million Amazon fund shows capital is the constraint
Salesforce's offtake answers the demand question; the BNDES credit line shows what equity cannot carry on its own.
Moeve's Onuba closes the equity gap and leaves the offtake question open
A 51/29/20 ownership split and roughly $357 million of Spanish state money get 300 MW built in Huelva; whether the structure scales hinges on a 105 MW option.
The renewable bottleneck moved to supply, and Asia is where it binds
RE100 members run on 59% renewables while Korea, Taiwan and Singapore sit near 6%, and closing that gap is now a project-finance problem.
Google's green steel certificates are Stegra's ramp-up financing
The purchase gives Stegra cash during its production ramp and hands hard-to-abate industry a template: sell the attribute, not just the steel.
Japan Airlines buys the carbon-removal rulebook, not the tonnage
Aviation's first compliance-grade removal contract matters less for what it delivers than for the eligibility gate it puts in front of every removal developer.
Symbiosis sells CFOs on the carbon offtake
Forty million tons of nature-based removals now sit behind contracts whose real innovation is how the risk is allocated.
Ara buys its own engineer, betting capacity beats capital
The Bryden Wood majority stake turns a supplier into an asset — and tests whether a captive designer can still read the market for its parent.
Brookfield is buying the offtake book behind ACME's green fuels
The check follows the supply contracts into India and Oman, in the order low-carbon fuels now get financed.
World Bank and BNDES put $2.86 billion behind Brazil's hard industries
The headline is $2.86 billion; the real test is whether $1.06 billion of public money pulls commercial lenders onto assets that have no single owner.