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B&W Wins Engineering Study for Alberta Air-Storage and Hydrogen Hub
CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE330 days agoStated as done, per B&W's release "(AKRON, Ohio – October 28, 2025)": "announced today that it has been awarded a contract by Cache Power Corp. (Cache Power) to execute an engineering study"; no time of day was found.[1]Cache Power hired Babcock & Wilcox to engineer its BrightLoop hydrogen technology, up to 60 tonnes a day with the CO2 captured, into the 640 MW Marguerite Lake compressed-air energy storage plant near La Corey, Alberta. An Alberta Innovates grant pays for part of the study.C$4.3M0.67Hinkley Point C Unit 1 Now Targeted for 2030
DELAYED5 years late62% CONFIDENCEin 4.3 yearsGiven as scheduled, per the source[1]: "the first 1.6 GW unit of its Hinkley Point C nuclear project in the UK is scheduled to start producing electricity in 2030".EDF has pushed the first reactor at Britain's Hinkley Point C nuclear plant back to 2030 and raised its cost estimate to roughly £35bn in 2015 prices.£35B0.64B&W and Denham Capital Partner to Repower Coal Plants for Data Centers
CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCE1.0 years agoStated as done, per B&W's release "(AKRON, Ohio – September 10, 2025)": "announced today the signing of a strategic partnership agreement with Denham Capital's[4] Sustainable Infrastructure arm"; the Business Wire copy on Yahoo Finance is timestamped 2025-09-10T10:30:00Z (6:30 a.m. ET).Babcock & Wilcox and Denham Capital's Sustainable Infrastructure arm will jointly convert existing coal-fired plants, largely to natural gas, to power data centres in the US and Europe. B&W supplies the engineering and technology; Denham leads development and financing. No plant is named yet, so the pin sits at B&W's Akron headquarters.0.64Base Electron's 1.2 GW Gas Plant for Applied Digital Goes Online
DELAYED2 years late76% CONFIDENCEin 4.3 yearsA target year, per bismarcktribune.com[1]: Base Electron's Tyler Hammond said that if the permit is approved "construction would commence in the second quarter of 2027 and the plant would be operational in 2030"; a year alone is dated to its last day.The 1,200 MW gas-fired plant Babcock & Wilcox is building for Base Electron near Center, North Dakota, to power Applied Digital's AI data centres is now due to run in 2030, after B&W first promised power by the end of 2028.0.63DLR's HY4 Completes Its First Hydrogen Fuel Cell Flight
CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE10.0 years agoDLR's[3] own press release and the EAA both date HY4's first official flight to September 29, 2016.The German Aerospace Center's HY4, the world's first four-seat aircraft powered solely by a hydrogen fuel cell, made its first flight from Stuttgart Airport on September 29, 2016. The Future of Flight features it as a real prototype for zero-emission aviation.0.62B&W Gets Go-Ahead to Supply SolveBright Carbon Capture to a US Power Plant
1200, East Market Street, East End, Goodyear Heights, Akron, Summit County, Ohio, 44305, United StatesBabcock & Wilcox…
CONFIRMED82% CONFIDENCE289 days agoStated as done, per B&W's release "(AKRON, Ohio – December 8, 2025)": "announced today that it has received limited notice to proceed"; the Business Wire copy on Yahoo Finance is timestamped 2025-12-08T11:30:00Z (6:30 a.m. ET).[1]Babcock & Wilcox received a limited notice to proceed on engineering and long-lead purchasing for a SolveBright CO2-capture system at an unnamed existing US power plant, sized to capture more than 550,000 tons a year. The full contract, expected by March 2026, is worth an estimated $80 million; the plant is not named, so the pin sits at B&W's Akron headquarters.$80M0.62Babcock & Wilcox Wins $40 Million Scrubber Contract at Canadian Refinery
1200, East Market Street, East End, Goodyear Heights, Akron, Summit County, Ohio, 44305, United States
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE278 days agoStated as done in the release datelined "AKRON, Ohio – December 19, 2025": B&W "announced today that it has been awarded a $40 million contract".[1]B&W will supply low-pressure wet gas scrubbing, ExxonMobil technology it licenses, to cut sulfur dioxide from a major Canadian petroleum refinery's catalytic cracker and coker units. The $40 million contract adds $30 million to a $10 million first order from September.$40M0.61Hinkley Point C Reactor 1 Online
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CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCE323 days agoStated as done, per babcock.com[1][6]: "(AKRON, Ohio - November 4, 2025) - Babcock & Wilcox ... announced today that it has ... [signed] an agreement for a limited notice to proceed"; the Business Wire copy on Yahoo Finance is timestamped 22:28 UTC and the SEC[2][3][5] 8-K was accepted at 17:31 ET.Babcock & Wilcox signed a limited notice to proceed on a project valued at over $1.5 billion to design and install four 300 MW gas-fired boiler and steam turbine plants for an Applied Digital AI Factory, its entry into AI data-centre power.$1.5B0.61Babcock & Wilcox Gets Go-Ahead on $2.4B Base Electron Power Plant
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE203 days agoStated as done, per babcock.com[1]: "(AKRON, Ohio - March 4, 2026) - Babcock & Wilcox ... announced today that it has received full notice to proceed on a $2.4 billion design-build agreement"; the Business Wire copy on Yahoo Finance is timestamped 11:30 UTC.Babcock & Wilcox received full notice to proceed on a $2.4 billion design-build contract with Base Electron, an Applied Digital-backed power producer, for 1.2 GW of gas-fired boiler and steam turbine capacity to supply Applied Digital AI Factory campuses.$2.4B0.61Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Finishes Construction
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE5.0 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "Nord Stream 2 AG, which is 100% controlled by Gazprom, announced the completion of pipe laying for the second branch".The $11BN Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline finished construction across the Baltic Sea, though it never entered commercial service and was later damaged by underwater explosions.0.61Ford will invest about $1.3 billion in its Oakville Assembly Plant in Ontario, Canada, to transition the facility into a new electric vehicle hub.
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CONFIRMED83% CONFIDENCE2.3 years agoHappened as dated, per cnbc.com[1]: "…ext-generation EVs that are expected to arrive to market around mid-decade. The retooling is expecte…"The plant will build the company’s next-generation EVs that are expected to arrive to market around mid-decade.
The changes to the Oakville complex will include combining three body shops into one and adding battery pack assembly, Ford said.
The Oakville plant will continue to build the gas-powered Ford Edge and Lincoln Nautilus crossovers up until the plant’s downtime.
The investment is part of Ford’s plan to have production capacity for 2 million EVs globally by the end of 2026.
The retooling is expected to take six months and begin in the second quarter of next year, Ford said.
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