Birmingham, Ala. – September 15, 2026 -- SJE Inc. has appointed Andrew Baines as Senior Vice President of Sales & Commercial Operations for its Engineered Control Solutions (ECS) Division, tasking him with accelerating growth across water and wastewater, OEM, and industrial markets.

Miami – September 15, 2026 -- Sawgrass LNG & Power has begun supplying liquefied natural gas to Walker's Cay in the northern Bahamas, replacing diesel as the fuel source for the island's power generation.

Albuquerque – September 15, 2026 -- The City of Albuquerque is deploying approximately 6 MW of solar energy generation across eight municipal facilities, closing the remaining gap toward its goal of 100% renewable energy for city operations. Sustainability Partners (SP), a Public Benefit Company, is financing and delivering the infrastructure alongside contractor Energy Systems Group (ESG) under a zero-upfront-cost model.

Los Angeles – September 15, 2026 -- Partillion Bioscience has secured a two-year, $2.1 million NIH Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award to scale its Cell-Cell-seq technology toward datasets of up to one million cell pairs. The grant, awarded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) under Award Number R44GM165220, is Partillion's 10th SBIR grant and brings the company's total non-dilutive federal funding past $8 million, roughly matching its private investment to date without additional equity dilution.

San Francisco – September 15, 2026 -- Fast Company has named Corgi Insurance to its Best Workplaces for Innovators in North America 2026 list, citing the AI-native insurance carrier's embedded culture of technology and rapid experimentation.

Corgi operates as a full-stack, AI-native insurance carrier across the underwriting lifecycle

The company uses automation throughout claims, underwriting, trucking and other emerging lines of business, while expanding into new product categories built for modern commercial clients.

Palo Alto, Calif. – September 15, 2026 -- UpDoc has been selected by the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) as lead performer in the Agentic AI-Enabled Cardiovascular Care Transformation (ADVOCATE) program, securing an award of up to $9.2 million. Microsoft, OpenAI and NVIDIA are joining the UpDoc-led team as supporting partners.

Houston – September 15, 2026 -- Fiber broadband has added an estimated $1.6 billion in aggregate home value to single-family homes sold across Houston since 2020, according to an independent study commissioned by Ezee Fiber titled "Fueling Houston's Growth with Fiber."

United States – September 15, 2026 -- Hyundai Motor America has committed more than $300 million to pediatric cancer research since 1998 through its Hope on Wheels program, a figure the automaker is now amplifying with a new national campaign, The Mark of a Warrior, timed to National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month in September.

Omaha – September 15, 2026 -- SecureSky has acquired Soveren, a London-based Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) provider, adding real-time sensitive-data discovery and classification to its Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) platform.

United States – September 15, 2026 -- Paslode has launched a new Universal Heavy-Duty Stapling program at Lowe's, adding five manual fastening tools and a line of universal 20-gauge staples to its jobsite portfolio.