Energy Vault is buying the project portfolio of Goshe Energy Storage, a Boulder, Colorado developer of utility-scale batteries. The deal adds 15 US projects totaling more than 2.3 GW to Asset Vault, the unit through which Energy Vault owns and operates storage instead of just building it for others. No price was disclosed. The shares rose on the news. Most of that 2.3 GW is pipeline, and pipeline is cheap to announce.

H2SITE has won €3.4 million (NOK 39.1 million) from Enova, Norway’s state climate fund, to build a commercial-scale ammonia-to-power system for ships. The project, called HydraNord Power, will produce a 700 kW net unit that cracks ammonia into hydrogen on board and feeds it to fuel cells. The system can make up to one tonne of hydrogen a day. It’s aimed at auxiliary and hybrid power on deep-sea vessels and offshore operations: the electricity a ship needs for everything except main propulsion.

Two next-generation geothermal companies moved closer to the grid on the same day. Quaise Energy was picked for up to $25 million in Department of Energy support for its superhot plant in Oregon. Sage Geosystems chose Ormat’s Blue Mountain power plant in Nevada as the site for its next commercial-scale enhanced geothermal system (EGS). Different technologies, different business models. Same destination: firm power, around the clock, from rock that conventional geothermal can’t use.

Willdan Group is buying Mantis Innovation, a Houston energy services firm, for $285 million in cash. It’s a big step for Willdan, an engineering and energy efficiency consultancy that mostly works for utilities and public agencies. Mantis gives it a much stronger foothold with private commercial and industrial customers, data centers among them. Mantis employs more than 220 people and expects about $120 million in net revenue this year, with adjusted EBITDA margins in the low 20s.

An Coimisiún Pleanála has written to the operator of Trump International Golf Links & Hotel in Doonbeg, Co Clare, asking it to redo the ecological paperwork behind a ballroom. Clare planners approved the building back in February. It’s a single-storey hall of about 1,240 sq m, seating 320, replacing the marquee the resort currently throws weddings in. The approval carried a condition about Vertigo angustior, the 2mm narrow-mouthed whorl snail that lives in the dunes behind the course and is listed under Annex II of the EU Habitats Directive.

Two energy financings closed within hours of each other, aimed at the same shortage from opposite ends. Antares, developing one-megawatt reactors for United States military bases, raised $370 million in equity and $100 million in debt in a round co-led by Paradigm and Caffeinated. French carrier Orange and infrastructure investor Morrison agreed to build a data center platform in France targeting 400 megawatts, backed by a €3 billion investment program.