Decarb Weekly 5/28/2026
Decarb Weekly, by Industria Partners, is a collection of articles focusing on trends and transactions in industrial decarbonization and climate tech.
Chart of the Week:
R&D spending by companies in energy-related sectors has continued to rise, though it slowed in 2025 to less than 2% growth. – IEA
Recent Market News:
- Global sustainable funds drew net inflows of $3.5 billion in the first quarter of 2026, marking a return to positive global
inflows after outflows of $27 billion in the fourth quarter of 2025. – Reuters - Enbridge announced a $1.2 billion solar-and-storage project in Wyoming to power Meta’s data centers, expanding the partnership to ~1.6 GW across North America. – Enbridge
- Hadron Energy, a developer of light-water micro-modular nuclear reactors, completed its SPAC business combination with GigCapital7 Corp, raising roughly $31 million. – Hadron
Transactions:
- 5/27/2026: Thea Energy, a developer of stellarator-based fusion power plants, raised a $100 million Series B led by the US Innovative Technology Fund. – Thea
- 5/21/2026: Frontier Power USA, a long-duration energy storage company, acquired a 480 MWh portfolio of battery energy storage system development projects from Bimergen Energy Corporation. – Cerberus
In-Depth Read:
Liebreich: The Great Clean Energy Acceleration 2.0 – BloombergNEF
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