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 a 25% stake in the up-to-1,080 MW Five Estuaries Offshore Wind Farm from a Macquarie-led consortium, joining EDF, ESB and Sumitomo on a project that won development consent in December 2025 and should power roughly a million UK homes. Terms were not disclosed. It is a flagship fund putting long-term capital behind a consented-but-unbuilt project — the construction phase where offshore wind money is hardest to find.

Also this week: Ara Partners took a majority interest in Pacific Ag, North America’s largest crop-residue supplier, moving corn stover and wheat straw across 30-plus states from the Columbia River Basin; water treatment consolidated in a single week as Rochester Midland bought ApHinity Technologies, Olympic Holdings acquired Vita-D-Chlor maker Integra Clear, and Robert B. Hill absorbed ECI Water’s softener controls and Greensand Plus line; energyRe closed an $815 million package from Bank of America, CIBC and Santander plus tax equity for five South Carolina solar projects totalling about 360 MW; Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy bought GreenAmerica Biofuels’ 70-million-gallon Nebraska ethanol plant from Pilot, lifting capacity to about 230 million gallons a year; CarbonFarm raised a $7.8 million Series A led by Colam Impact; NEU Battery Materials closed $7.6 million co-led by Shift4Good and SGInnovate; Subeca pulled in about $3 million led by Burnt Island Ventures; HiTHIUM passed 200 GWh in cumulative storage-battery shipments; and the John Deere Foundation pledged $18.5 million to a farm-to-plate hunger strategy.

The paid edition this week is Grain Elevator: cereals and grains records in the iGrow Intelligence database rose from 53 to 127 across 27 countries, up from 14, with nine priced venture rounds averaging $9.2 million against three averaging $51.2 million a year earlier — plus four dated signals to watch.

In this episode:
(00:00) Cold Open
(00:24) The Impact Scorecard
(01:38) Corporate and Financial Shifts
(04:51) Innovation and Public Strategy
(07:20) Market Signals and Operations
(10:23) Close

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