Energy & Environment

Marina del Rey, Calif. – September 29, 2026 -- CommanderAI has launched a mobile app for iOS and Android that extends its AI-powered sales and CRM platform to field representatives in the waste, recycling, and scrap industries, letting reps prospect and close accounts directly from trucks and job sites.

Reps convert roadside sightings into leads with photo-to-lead capture

The app allows a field sales representative to photograph a sign, a truck, or a job site and automatically generate a new prospect record, populated with company and decision-maker data. Outreach can begin on the spot, closing a gap that previously forced reps to log opportunities in notebooks until they returned to a desk.

Toronto – September 29, 2026 -- PowerBank Corporation (NASDAQ: PBK) posted a 34.7% gross margin for fiscal year 2026, up from 25.3% a year earlier, as the renewable energy developer shifted from selling projects to retaining ownership of its power portfolio.

Revenue fell to $27.4 million but profitability metrics improved sharply

Revenue for the twelve months ended June 30, 2026 dropped to $27.4 million from $41.5 million in FY2025, reflecting the Company's pivot away from development-and-EPC sales toward long-term asset ownership. Despite the top-line decline, gross profit reached $9.5 million versus $10.5 million a year prior. Net loss narrowed to $24.3 million, or $(0.58) per basic share, from $31.1 million, or $(0.97) per share, in FY2025. Adjusted EBITDA fell to a loss of $3.5 million from a loss of $0.8 million, driven by lower development and EPC revenue alongside higher operating expenses.

Toronto – September 29, 2026 -- Jaguar Uranium Corp. (NYSE American: JAGU) has secured Environmental Impact Assessment approval from Chubut Province's Ministry of Environment for the La Rosada prospect, unlocking exploration rights across 59,895.3 hectares in Argentina.

Approval covers a quarter of the entire Laguna Salada project

The permit authorizes exploration activities across six properties totaling 59,895.3 hectares -- approximately 25% of the 230,000-hectare Laguna Salada uranium-vanadium project, the largest single component of the district-scale portfolio to date.

La Rosada sits 45 kilometers from a prospect already cleared this year

The newly permitted zone lies 45 kilometers northeast of the Guanaco prospect, which received its own EIA approval on March 2, 2026, extending Jaguar's cleared exploration footprint within the same project area.

Uppsala – – September 29, 2026 -- Metacon AB has launched a 20 MW multi-level alkaline electrolysis module designed to cut balance-of-plant costs for large-scale hydrogen production by up to 70% on area-related infrastructure.

Compact design slashes steel and piping costs for hydrogen developers

The Swedish company's new module reduces steel structure costs by up to 30% and piping system expenses by up to 50% compared with conventional building-based electrolysis installations. The stacked design places electrolyser stacks on a lower level with gas-handling equipment and cooling units above, shrinking the plot footprint required per megawatt of installed capacity.

San Antonio – September 29, 2026 -- Alder Renewables has completed 1,000 hours of continuous operation at its integrated industrial pilot, producing on-spec Alder Renewable Crude (ARC) from commercially sourced woody biomass pyrolysis oil. The sustained run validates the company's low-temperature conversion process and generates operating data now feeding into equipment design for its first full-scale commercial project.

Pilot data will size larger commercial units

The 1,000-hour campaign confirmed Alder's integrated process can hold continuous operation while repeatedly meeting product specifications. Alder is applying the results to refine process controls, operating parameters and equipment design for scale-up engineering.

Shanghai – September 29, 2026 -- Envision Energy has secured a spot on Fortune's 2026 Change the World list for the third time, recognized for its Mission Gobi initiative pairing AI computing infrastructure with renewable energy in desert regions.

Fortune honors Envision among 50 global companies tackling social and environmental challenges

The 2026 list includes Alphabet, Anthropic and CATL among other honorees. Envision's selection centers on Mission Gobi's approach to converging AI and green energy, positioning abundant renewable resources as infrastructure for next-generation computing.

Mission Gobi targets 5GW of green AI computing capacity by 2030

Launched in June 2026, the initiative aims to build green AI computing capacity across desert and arid regions worldwide, drawing on wind and solar resources in areas historically viewed as energy-constrained.

London – September 29, 2026 -- Reactive Technologies has launched Nyquist, a technology licensing programme giving utilities, technology providers and equipment manufacturers access to its patented Edge-to-Cloud AI foundation for grid measurement and analytics.

Nyquist opens core sensing and AI technologies to external partners

The programme lets partners integrate Reactive Technologies' proprietary capabilities directly into their own products, covering high-fidelity measurement and waveform capture, precise time-synchronisation, digital signal processing, edge AI, connectivity, data infrastructure and grid analytics. Partners avoid building these complex sensing and processing systems from scratch, cutting development time for grid-monitoring products.

Kawanishi – September 28, 2026 -- Green Science Alliance has more than doubled the performance of its aqueous rechargeable aluminum-ion battery (AAIB) by swapping the cathode current collector for a commercially cheap conductive carbon rubber sheet, according to research led by Dr. Ryohei Mori.

Capacity climbs to 210 mAhg-1 from an earlier 103 mAhg-1 baseline

Under 0.025 C at room temperature, the redesigned AAIB delivered an initial capacity of at least 210 mAhg-1, sustained through at least 25 cycles in ongoing testing. The prior generation of the technology, detailed in Mori's 2025 review article in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Energy Advances (DOI: 10.1039/D5YA00148J), had capacity of roughly 103 mAhg-1 with poor cycle stability.

New Orleans – September 28, 2026 -- LabWare has launched LabWare WATER, a cloud-based SaaS platform designed to help smaller municipal water utilities manage sampling, laboratory testing, documentation, and regulatory reporting from a single system.

LabWare unveils WATER platform to cut compliance paperwork for utilities

The solution targets utilities that test in-house, outsource to contract laboratories, or run hybrid operations, replacing spreadsheets and paper records with a unified SaaS system. LabWare WATER covers the full compliance lifecycle, from scheduling monthly, quarterly, annual, and event-driven sampling to tracking chain-of-custody documentation and flagging exceedances, missing results, and overdue reporting deadlines.

Toronto – September 28, 2026 -- Daedal Systems has raised US$4.035 million to build and deploy its first standardized plasma diagnostic systems with pilot customers in the fusion industry. OMERS Ventures led the round, joined by Garage Capital, Panache Ventures, Ripple Ventures, MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund and a group of angel investors.

Funding will build three diagnostic systems for pilot deployment

Daedal will use the capital to construct its first three diagnostic systems and deploy prototypes under contract with pilot customers. The company has also established a research partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.