iGrow Digest: Agriculture, Energy & Water Investment News
by iGrowNews · 11 episodes
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iGrow Digest is a weekly ten-minute briefing on the deals, funding rounds, acquisitions and policy moves reshaping agriculture, energy and water technology. Every Friday: who raised, who bought whom, which technologies cleared regulators, and what it means for growers, utilities and investors, drawn from the iGrowNews newsletter and database. Produced by iGrowNews. Narrated with an AI voice from a human-edited script.
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A six-reactor, 6.6-gigawatt campus on the Ohio River would be the largest U.S. nuclear site
Six reactors, 6.6 gigawatts, one bend in the Ohio River — and it would be the biggest nuclear site in America.The Nuclear Company unveiled Prosperity One, a proposed six-reactor AP…
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A six-reactor, 6.6-gigawatt campus on the Ohio River would be the largest U.S. nuclear site
Six reactors, 6.6 gigawatts, one bend in the Ohio River — and it would be the biggest nuclear site in America.The Nuclear Company unveiled Prosperity One, a proposed six-reactor AP…
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EnergyX signed a 10-year, $2 billion lithium offtake with Trafigura for 100,000 tonnes
A trader just committed more than $2 billion to lithium that hasn’t been pumped yet — and that was only the fifth-biggest deal of the week.Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners bought…
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Pacolet Milliken tripled its biomass platform by buying 116 megawatts in Georgia
Four companies went shopping in a single week — and one of them tripled its biomass fleet overnight.Pacolet Milliken bought 100% of Georgia Renewable Power, whose two woody-biomass…
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Hormel is paying $1.055 billion for a family chicken maker, and that was just one of a dozen deals
A dozen acquisitions, a $19 billion seed pipeline landing on the NYSE, and the first carbon credits ever issued for rescued food — the dealmakers did not take the week off.Hormel F…
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A Paris-founded nuclear developer raised $247M and chose Nasdaq over Europe to list
A Paris-founded reactor company just rang the bell in New York — and more than a billion dollars moved across energy, water and agriculture in five days.newcleo closed its business…
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Corteva's seed business becomes Vylor on October 1, chasing $1 billion in wheat by 2040
A 100-year-old crop giant is cutting itself in half — and the new seed company says wheat alone is a $1 billion business waiting to happen.Corteva's board approved the separation o…
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Agreena signed a 4.45 million-tonne soil-carbon deal across 1.6 million hectares in Kazakhstan
Two reactor developers hit the public markets in the same week — and the largest farmland carbon deal ever disclosed landed in Kazakhstan.Holtec Nuclear filed to go public on Nasda…
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Flex is buying EPC Power for $4.4 billion, the week's clearest bet on grid hardware
The week's biggest deal wasn't software or AI — it was a $4.4 billion bet on the boxes that convert electrons.Flex agreed to acquire EPC Power for $4.4 billion, absorbing the North…
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ArcLight just put $1 billion behind a transmission company that didn't exist last week
One billion dollars of equity, one brand-new transmission company — and a 54-year-old distributor filing Chapter 11 with $342.5 million in debt, in the same week.CropX Technologies…
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Apollo Atomics raised $31M to shrink reactors to a fortieth of conventional size
A factory-built steam generator that shrinks a nuclear reactor to a fortieth of its normal size just pulled in $31 million — and it wasn't even the biggest capital story of the wee…
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Xylem is paying $1.46 billion for two pump makers, its biggest water bet of the year
Eleven acquisitions crossed the wire in a single week — and the biggest one was a $1.46 billion bet on pumps.Xylem agreed to buy Cornell Pump and Roper Pump from industrial conglom…
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IGD001: Current Affairs
Indoor farming's harshest lesson yet, dealmaking across three continents, and $263 million flowing into grid storage.80 Acres Farms raised $390 million across six rounds and became…