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👋 Welcome back — grab the coffee, this one's about a four-minute read across energy, water and the field. The grid did most of the heavy lifting this week (solar finance, a wave of storage launches and a nuclear raise), water picked up a fresh M&A platform, and agriculture leaned hard into carbon and crop inputs. Here's what moved.
☕ First, this week's paid edition: Picking Order
Our latest Trends Analysis tracks fruit and berry activity in the iGrow Intelligence database from 1 January to 30 October 2026 against the same stretch of 2025. Records jumped to 104 from 36, private rounds went from three to 21, and two deals, Oishii's $150M Series C and Tropic's $105M Series C, carry about three quarters of that money. Ownership changes climbed from one to eight, led by Mission Produce's roughly $430M purchase of Calavo Growers, and crop protection moved from the margin of the category to its center.
🏆 The Scorecard
Sciens Water bought Roberts Filter Group, standing up a new municipal-and-industrial water filtration platform.
Exus Renewables pulled in $345M from Goldman Sachs Alternatives for its 6 GW-plus US clean-power pipeline.
Boomitra sold and delivered 2.6 million soil carbon credits off Northern Mexico grasslands.
Terra-Gen switched on its $950M Lockhart solar-plus-storage project in California.
Chevron is restarting its idled Ralston biodiesel plant in Iowa with Landus Cooperative feedstock.
The big deals
Sciens Water made the week's standout move, acquiring Roberts Filter Group — a Coatesville, Pennsylvania maker of gravity filtration systems, underdrains and packaged treatment — to launch a new water filtration platform under its Water Opportunities Fund II. The deal closed November 9; terms weren't disclosed, and CEO Matt Roberts said nothing changes for customers.
Why it matters: Water infrastructure is quietly becoming a buy-and-build arena for private capital, and a filtration platform hands Sciens a base to roll up more municipal and industrial treatment assets.
Solar had its own trade: OCI Energy sold its 327 MWdc Clairemont project in Kent County, Texas to Hyundai Engineering — the pair's second deal after a 2024 Texas sale — with construction slated to start in Q3 2027.
Follow the money
Exus Renewables North America landed $345 million in holding-company financing led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, funding construction across a portfolio with more than 800 MW operating or under construction and a pipeline above 6 GW. Close behind, Calibrant Energy closed a $145 million facility led by Investec (with Citi, Liberty Bank and Siemens Financial Services) to recapitalize solar and battery assets and build a 120 MWh battery system for a hyperscale data-center customer in PJM.
On the science side, Lithuania's Biomatter raised an oversubscribed $18 million Series A led by Astanor to scale its AI-designed enzymes — already shipping inside Thermo Fisher products — while FluxPoint Energy closed an undisclosed seed round to advance what it calls the first new US uranium-conversion facility in nearly 70 years, targeting commercial output in 2030–31.
Around the sectors
⚡ On the grid
Energy was the week's center of gravity. Terra-Gen brought its $950 million Lockhart solar-and-storage project online in Hinkley, California — 365 MW of solar plus 173.7 MW of batteries, enough for about 350,000 homes and businesses. Duke Energy Florida filed to add four solar sites and 300 MW by mid-2028, pitching roughly $1 billion in lifetime fuel savings, while Ireland's Bord na Móna lodged plans for the 46-turbine, 322 MW Ballydermot wind farm on the Kildare–Offaly border. Hardware makers crowded the pre-RE+ and GEPS calendar: Sungrow launched its PowerStack 3.0 C&I storage series, Soneil Spark debuted a trailer-mounted mobile battery system (230–1,840 kWh), DMEGC Solar rolled out higher-bifaciality steel-framed modules, and TCL SunPower Global opened European orders for its 40-year-warranty Origin line. Supply deals ran just as hot — JA Solar will be sole module supplier for Teraco's 120 MW Sediba project in South Africa, and Astronergy is feeding Rezolv Energy's 1.36 GWp Dama Solar in Romania, billed as the EU's largest onshore renewable project. Hydrogen kept momentum, with Oman's Hydrom awarding two green-hydrogen projects in Duqm and opening a data-center hydrogen round, and HYTRA signing an MoU to build liquid-hydrogen infrastructure at Sohar. And Chevron is restarting its Ralston biodiesel plant in Ralston, Iowa on a feedstock deal with farmer-owned Landus Cooperative.
💧 In the water
Beyond the Sciens Water deal up top, DuPont extended its water-treatment lineup with four high-flow electrodeionization modules (the EDI-520 through EDI-830) aimed at ultrapure water for power generation, green hydrogen, solar PV and semiconductors. And in California, Forever Feed Technologies booked a $15 million contract with Bar-20 Dairy Farms for two automated hydroponic GrowSystems that churn out more than 75 tons of sprouted feed a day while cutting the water a comparable alfalfa crop would need by over 95%.
🌱 In the field
Carbon and inputs led agriculture. Boomitra sold and delivered 2.6 million soil carbon credits from about 4.8 million acres of Northern Mexico grassland, with ranchers and local partners keeping at least 75% of gross revenue — one of the larger soil-carbon deliveries on record. COP31 in Antalya produced two more: a VCMI–AUDA-NEPAD platform to channel high-integrity carbon finance into African farming, and a five-year MATI–IITA deal to field-test crushed-basalt rock dust across Kenya and Nigeria. On inputs, BASF brought its Calovor corn herbicide to Canadian growers, Latham Hi-Tech Seeds introduced four new Enlist E3 soybean blends for 2027, and Koch Agronomic Services teamed with Phospholutions to widen access to RhizoSorb phosphate. Equipment makers packed EIMA and EuroTier with New Holland's refreshed T7 tractors, KUHN's Antea self-propelled feeder and Kemin's LYSOFORTE ENFUSIO absorption tech. Rounding out the week, Bunge and GDM formed oilseed JV Enerseed for low-carbon fuel feedstocks, India's BharatRohan launched a farm-traceable US spice brand, T3BioScience began Brazilian field trials of a citrus-greening biocontrol, Divert opened a food-waste-to-RNG plant in Lexington, North Carolina, and Coupang opened a direct US-beef export lane to South Korea with Nebraska Beef.
🔬 Quick hits
Zoetis won a USDA license for Cytopoint Plus, a 75-day antibody for allergic itch in dogs.
Contact BioSolutions' FireHawk bioherbicide cleared California DPR registration.
Rockwell Automation's Clock Tower Farms indoor farm went fully operational in Milwaukee, aiming at 200,000 lbs of produce a year for food banks.
Vilmorin-Mikado opened three new quality-control labs (a €6.3M investment) at La Ménitré, France.
Aranet and Priva launched a joint web shop for greenhouse climate sensors.
LCH2 picked up another $1M grant — $1.4M in total — for its Lewis County clean-energy campus in Washington.
EBB Farms received a $20,000 USDA block grant to fund Kentucky chestnut-grower guidance.
Switch Bioworks and academic co-authors published a Nature Biotechnology commentary on the next frontier in nitrogen fixation.
Unifrutti Group named José Antonio Gómez Bazán as group CEO.
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