Sustainable Energy & Infrastructure

Read about Boston-based solar and energy storage developer BlueWave and its acquisition by a fund managed by Axium Infrastructure.

Read about Cambrian, a commercial provider of distributed wastewater treatment and resource recovery solutions, and its new partnership with Anheuser-Busch to implement water reuse technology in Anheuser-Busch’s breweries.

Learn about upcoming energy industry events, including the NEECE22: Demystifying Decarbonization conference in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Read about President Biden’s proposed FY 2023 budget allocating funding to  combat climate change and advance clean energy development, including funding for the DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy program.

Read about the latest round of M&A activity in the energy and sustainability space. Read here.

This issue of Energy & Sustainability Connections includes features on President Biden’s proposed FY 2023 funding for the DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy program and wastewater treatment innovator Cambrian, energy policy news from Washington, and a roundup of recent M&A activity.

There is no “one size fits all” approach with respect to board responsibility for ESG oversight, say Mintz attorneys Megan Gates, Jacob Hupart, and Jen Rubin. Some may form a new committee, some may give the duties to an existing committee, or still others might have each board member assume all ESG responsibilities. In any case, they say, investors are raising the stakes on ESG matters.

Read about recent M&A activity in the energy and sustainability space, including Professional Datasolutions’s acquisition of GreenPrint, a provider of carbon-neutral fuel services designed to reduce carbon emissions in the environment.

This issue of Energy & Sustainability Connections includes features on Context Labs and the SEC’s Proposed Climate-Related Rules, energy policy news from Washington, and a roundup of recent M&A activity.

Learn about upcoming energy industry events, including Mintz’s webinar: A Closer Look at the SEC’s Proposed Climate-Related Disclosures and Implications for Public Companies. 

Read about Context Labs, an Enterprise Data Fabric Climate Tech company based in Cambridge, MA, and Amsterdam, a recent $28 million investment in the company, and a multiyear commitment by energy company Williams to use Context’s platform.

Read about energy legislation and energy policy news, including President Biden’s FY 2023 request for $48.2 billion for the DOE, the Senate Climate Change Task Force’s proposal for energy independence, and the EPA’s Clean Air in Buildings Challenge.

Our newsletter highlights Massachusetts’s $4 billion 2022–2024 energy efficiency plan; Aspen Aerogels; M&A activity in the industry; the COMPETES Act and DOE Science for the Future Act; and upcoming industry events.

This article discusses Massachusetts’s 2022–2024 Three-Year Energy Efficiency Plan, which allocates $4 billion in energy efficiency incentives.

Read the latest round of M&A activity in the energy and sustainability space. Read here.

This article from Mintz’s March 2022 Energy & Sustainability Connections newsletter provides an update on Aspen Aerogels, a technology leader in aerogel-based sustainability and electrification solutions.

Don’t miss this month’s exciting virtual events, including NECA’s 2022 Renewable Energy Conference, which will include topics such as offshore wind activity and the necessary distributed generation (DG) policies to attain state policy goals. Learn more here.