Biogas
Montauk’s swine-waste project and the next test for biogas returns
Montauk’s $200 million North Carolina facility turns swine waste into electricity, gas, and biochar. What will make the next biogas projects worth building?
Journal topic
Development and capital
Development and capital covers how energy projects move from concept to financing: permits, contracts, risk allocation, and what capital providers need. The Sharon Creek Journal has 9 articles on this topic.
Articles on development and capital
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Geothermal
What Quaise Energy’s $180 Million Series B Means for Superhot Geothermal
Quaise Energy’s $180 million Series B backs superhot geothermal. The bigger signal is how technology, project development, partners, and capital converge.
Feedstock
When Feedstock Variability Becomes a Financing Risk
Feedstock becomes a financing risk when variability can change supply, throughput, yield, cost, or product quality without clear controls.
Advanced Nuclear
What the X-energy–Centrus HALEU agreement reveals about financing advanced nuclear
What the X-energy–Centrus HALEU agreement shows about fuel supply, prepayments, contracts, fabrication, regulation, and advanced nuclear capital.
Project Development
What Makes a Waste-to-Fuel Project Financeable?
A decision guide to feedstock, logistics, conversion, off-take, site economics, and capital—anchored to the Synthica St. Bernard project.
Grid-Scale Storage
Which Risk Keeps a Grid-Scale Storage Project from Becoming Financeable?
A grid-scale storage project becomes financeable when its site, interconnection, operations, revenue, equipment, and capital schedule tell one story.
Industrial AI
What Operating Decision Should Industrial AI Improve?
Industrial AI creates value when it improves a consequential operating decision—not when it merely produces another prediction, dashboard, or model.
Nuclear Fuel
What Must Align Before Nuclear Fuel Refinement Can Advance?
Nuclear fuel refinement advances when qualification, licensing, site, supply, customers, partners, and staged capital are developed as one system.
Project Development
What Makes a Difficult Energy Project Buildable
A practical framework for turning an ambitious energy thesis into a project that customers, regulators, capital providers, and operators can believe in.
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