Poland's first offshore wind farm has delivered its first electricity to the national grid. Baltic Power, with 54 of 76 turbines installed, is due for completion this autumn.
Baltic Power has installed 50 of its 76 Vestas 15 MW turbines. Mandatory testing and commissioning works begin in the coming weeks, ahead of completion in H2 2026.
Tion Renewables has acquired an operational 69 MWp agri-PV park in Schwarzholz, Saxony-Anhalt, from FEFA. The plant is expected to generate around 87 GWh annually.
The Nordex Group booked 3.1 GW of new orders in the second quarter of 2026, bringing first-half order intake to 4.9 GW, led by Germany, the US and Türkiye.
Danish developer Eurowind Energy has won 70 MW across three onshore wind projects in Germany's latest auction and plans to expand its team.
Registration has opened for RE-Source 2026, the tenth edition of Europe's corporate renewable energy sourcing event, taking place in Amsterdam on 4-5 November.
European Energy has won permits for six German wind projects totalling around 145 MW, spread across Lower Saxony, Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt.
Vattenfall has installed the first monopile for Nordlicht I in the German North Sea, starting offshore construction of what it calls Germany's largest offshore wind project.
The IEA, IMF, World Bank and WTO have jointly warned that the Middle East war is straining global energy supplies, with record oil-stock draws through the Strait of Hormuz and higher fuel and fertiliser prices.
The Nordex Group has secured orders totalling around 700 MW from German developer UKA, covering 100 Delta4000-platform turbines for projects across several federal states.
wpd has won 156.9 MW in Germany's latest BNetzA onshore wind auction, a heavily oversubscribed round in which average award prices fell to a record low of 5.06 ct/kWh.
Qualitas Energy has completed its 33.6 MW Nachtsheim-Luxem wind farm in Rhineland-Palatinate, bringing all eight Enercon turbines online to supply more than 29,000 households.
Vattenfall has installed the first monopile at Nordlicht I, opening the main construction phase of the 1.6 GW cluster that will be Germany's largest offshore wind project.
Alterric secured all six projects it entered in Germany's May onshore wind auction, totalling 242 MW across five federal states in a round oversubscribed 2.6 times.
Ahead of the EU's 17 July ETS review, WindEurope wants the Commission to keep a clear carbon price and channel ETS revenues into industrial electrification.
Alterric says leaked drafts of Germany's EEG 2027 reform and grid-connection package — including a ten-year uncompensated curtailment rule — threaten the financing of new wind projects.
Nordex has won orders for 30 turbines totalling over 197 MW from ENOVA and BMR across Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein and North Rhine-Westphalia, each with a 20-year service deal.
Nordex will supply three N175/6.X turbines for the 20 MW Twistenberg wind farm in Hesse, which tyre maker Continental will own and use to power its Korbach plant.
Irregular crossings into the EU fell nearly 40% in the first five months of 2026 to about 39,000, Frontex says, as the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum introduces standardised screening.
Parliament and Council negotiators have provisionally agreed a defence-readiness package to speed permits and procurement and back up to €800 billion of investment under Readiness 2030.
Norway's Føn Energy Services has signed a multi-year O&M contract for Baltic Power, Poland's first offshore wind farm, covering all subsea assets ahead of its 2026 launch.
Germany's 1 May onshore wind tender drew bids worth 6,409 MW for 2,495 MW on offer, pushing award prices lower; clients of purchasing group Routing Energy won 90.1 MW.
The Dresden-based renewable energy developer BOREAS has appointed Alexander Kunsch as a managing director, while long-serving commercial director Uwe Berg steps down.
A report compiled for Poland's CBSS presidency maps the dozens of security cooperation formats in the Baltic Sea region, spanning critical infrastructure protection and energy security.
At the Kiel Security Conference, German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul called the Baltic Sea Europe's most obvious theatre of confrontation with Russia, citing repeated threats to critical maritime infrastructure.
HUSUM WIND and WAB will run what they call Europe's largest offshore field trip on 31 August, taking around 500 participants past up to 25 North Sea wind farms and converter stations.
The Nordex Group has secured a 325 MW order in the United States for 55 N163/5.X turbines built at its Iowa plant, with the customer and project undisclosed.
Qualitas Energy has won 113.2 MW across three onshore wind projects in Germany's latest tender, which drew bids worth more than 2.5 times the available volume.
German developer JUWI says it is simultaneously building around one gigawatt of wind and solar capacity worldwide, reaching the milestone as work begins at a solar park in northern Greece.
The onshore wind and hybrid park operator Alterric has appointed finance veteran Ingmar Schmitt as chief financial officer, effective 1 July 2026.
A technical review of airborne wind energy systems — tethered kites and drones that harvest high-altitude winds — sets out the advances and the engineering hurdles still standing between the concept and commercial scale.
Germany's renewable energy sector set a new employment record in 2025, but a Bertelsmann Stiftung study warns that a shift in federal energy policy could endanger thousands of jobs.
EU energy ministers met in Luxembourg to agree a general approach on the European grids package, including EU funding to repair undersea energy infrastructure damaged by sabotage — a priority for the Baltic Sea region.
With German onshore wind auction prices down to 5.54 ct/kWh, night-time noise curtailment is becoming a decisive factor in whether projects are financially viable, sound-optimisation firm Dezibel Engineering says.
Europe's largest energy trade fair alliance ended its 2026 edition in Munich, with organisers reporting 2,650 exhibitors and around 105,000 visitors under the banner of round-the-clock renewable power.
DNV has taken a strategic minority stake in renewable project platform Vind AI and integrated its CFD-ML wind modelling, giving developers high-fidelity simulations from a project's earliest stages.
A new Eurelectric report, based on 61 companies and 30 projects, sets out five replicable 'Power Couples' models to scale up industrial electrification by aligning demand, supply, grids and investment.
The Swedish Wind Centre has sent a research-based fact-check on wind power to around 31,000 municipal politicians, aiming to give local decision-makers reliable answers on its effects.
Eurelectric is calling on the EU to keep the Emissions Trading System as the backbone of its climate policy, setting out three priorities for the review: a predictable carbon price, industrial competitiveness and a just transition.
The Netherlands has opened the tender for the 1 GW IJmuiden Ver Gamma-A offshore wind site, with €4.75bn in subsidy available and applications running from 26 November to 10 December 2026.
Nordex has won a 112 MW order from NeXtWind for the Altmark wind farm in Saxony-Anhalt, supplying 16 N175/6.X turbines for one of the region's larger repowering projects.
WindEurope is calling on EU energy ministers to agree a binding 2040 renewables target, warning that without a post-2030 goal Europe risks losing investment, energy security and industrial leadership.
ENERTRAG has brought the first six Nordex N163 turbines of its Bütow II repowering online in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, part of a scheme replacing 32 turbines from 1999 with 14 modern machines.
Poland's grid operator PSE ran a security exercise near Białystok simulating a physical attack on a highest-voltage substation, drawing in crisis services, PGE, the ABW security agency and military units.
Sweden's transmission operator Svenska kraftnät says meeting electricity demand to 2050 will require historic investment in generation, grids and flexibility — around 8 TWh of new fossil-free power a year in its most intensive scenarios.
Baltic Power, Poland's first offshore wind farm, is set to start generating electricity in the second half of 2026, with 76 turbines off Łeba and Choczewo covering around 3% of national demand.
An AI study has valued every one of Germany's 28 million residential rooftops, finding around €45 billion in unrealised annual electricity savings — even as home solar installations fell 21% in early 2026.
The Baltic Sea Hydrogen Collector held its first networking event in Helsinki, matching Finnish and Baltic hydrogen producers with Central European buyers ahead of any pipeline.
A SolarPower Europe report shows record 664 GW of solar installed in 2025 and a global fleet above 3 TW, but warns that grid and storage limits are now the binding constraint.
VSB is presenting solar projects from Germany, Italy and Poland at Intersolar Europe, led by a 303 MWp solar-plus-storage development at Brzezinka, one of Poland's largest.
Ignitis Renewables is building three battery farms in Lithuania with 291 MW of power and 584 MWh of capacity, sited next to existing wind farms and the Kruonis pumped-storage plant.
Shipping companies and Transport & Environment want the EU's upcoming Electrification Action Plan to cover shipping, citing barriers to charging infrastructure.
ORLEN is buying a 20% stake in Norway's Goliat field from Vår Energi, adding about 58 million boe and tripling output from the assets by the decade's end.
Amazon and Skyborn Renewables have signed a 600 MW power purchase agreement for the Gennaker offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea, the largest single corporate PPA in Germany and a decisive step toward financing the country's biggest Baltic wind project.
Baltic Power, developed by ORLEN and Northland Power, has installed 50 of its 76 Vestas 15 MW turbines off Choczewo and Leba. Poland's first offshore wind farm is now testing for grid integration ahead of full operation, with a planned capacity of around 1.2 GW.
Estonia's Riigikogu has passed the Nuclear Energy and Safety Act, creating the country's first legal framework for nuclear power, including a phased licensing system and a national regulator due to start work in January 2027.
A new study by Menon Economics and TGS | 4C estimates European offshore wind supported about 180,000 full-time jobs and EUR 26 billion in gross value added in 2025, with each direct job supporting roughly two more through the wider supply chain.
A 25% increase in cross-border grid interconnection could let Europe use an extra 27 TWh of wind and solar by 2040 and avoid 16.3 million tonnes of CO2, an Aurora Energy Research study finds — warning that curtailment could double by 2030 without timely network investment.
OX2 has completed the foundation works at its 40 MW Annopol wind farm in eastern Poland, ahead of summer turbine assembly. The ten-turbine project will generate around 155 GWh a year under a long-term PPA with Amazon, with completion planned for 2027.
Interior ministers of nine Baltic Sea states met in Helsinki to coordinate joint measures against drone threats to critical infrastructure and public safety.
GWEC's 2026 report urges governments to fast-track offshore wind, warning that auctions slowed to 11.4 GW in 2025 even as 25 GW of projects sit ready to build.
European Energy will keep managing six Polish wind farms totalling more than 83 MW for Enea Nowa Energia until the end of 2027.
The European Investment Bank has added a €150 million loan for Lithuania's 314 MW Kelmė wind farm, bringing its total backing to €250 million.
ENGIE and European Energy will develop a 150 MW renewable hydrogen plant near Kassø in Denmark, targeting operations around 2030 and supply to Germany.
The Nordex Group has booked three new US orders totalling 484 MW, covering 88 turbines from its N133 and N163 platforms.
Grid operator 50Hertz will have an offshore converter platform built at the NEPTUN shipyard in Rostock, in contracts worth up to EUR 2.5 billion that could create more than 500 jobs in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
Germany's Bundesrat has adopted a resolution backing offshore wind reform, taking up BWO proposals for an indexed two-sided CfD auction design, cross-border cooperation and a route to return non-viable awarded sites.
wpd has started commercial operation of Higashi Izu Furusato, its first onshore wind farm in Japan, a 7.48 MW project supplying a corporate buyer in Tokyo under a power purchase agreement.
O&M specialist 4:energy has marked five years by taking on two wind farms totalling 46 MW in Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein, crossing 500 MW under management across more than 100 special-purpose vehicles.
WindEurope's EoLIS seminar on turbine end-of-life, recycling and circular design runs on 24-25 November 2026 in Bilbao, with more than 300 industry participants expected.
Experts told a Warsaw debate that wind-turbine health scares work by sowing doubt, and that trusted local voices — not technical papers — are what counter them.
Iberdrola's Agnieszka Pakula told a Warsaw debate that residents only engage with the facts on wind farms once they hear about concrete local benefits.
Grajewo mayor Grzegorz Gorski told a Warsaw debate that 19 turbines bring his municipality PLN 3.2m a year, and that visible local benefits beat fake news.
More than 400 additional steel structures for the Baltica 2 offshore wind farm are on their way to the installation port at Rønne, with over 75% supplied by Polish manufacturers.
Figures presented in Warsaw show nearly 70,000 disinformation publications on energy since 2022 and a PSEW study in which one in four wind firms reported physical violence.
GE Vernova has launched GridOS for Transmission, a unified platform for operating transmission networks, alongside two whitepapers on AI in grid planning and grid-edge operations.
Gasgrid Finland, Nordion Energi, OX2 and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners will study an offshore hydrogen pipeline linking Finland, Sweden and Germany by 2030 to turn Baltic offshore wind into a hydrogen market.
The Council of the Baltic Sea States has opened applications for its 2026 Summer University in Denmark on minorities and societal resilience across the region; the deadline is 1 July.
A University of Hamburg study of 176 climate models finds the latest generation now matches observations so closely that data quality, not the models, is the main limitation.
Baltic environmental NGOs urge the EU to set 2027 fishing limits below ICES advice, warning that cod, herring and salmon stocks are failing to recover even under existing closures.
Heavy-transport specialist Roll Group will use Spinergie's vessel-tracking Supply Chain module to map offshore wind logistics and spot new opportunities as the sector scales.
MLK Gruppe and the eegon cooperative have opened the repowered Scheid wind farm; the first two of four Nordex N163 turbines lift capacity from 4 to 14 MW, with 27.2 MW once complete.
BWE president Bärbel Heidebroek says strong permitting numbers mask a looming bottleneck: auction volumes and a flawed CfD design could stall Germany's wind boom.
Speaking in Brussels, NATO Deputy Secretary General Radmila Shekerinska linked secure, resilient energy supplies directly to the Alliance's deterrence and defence.
The EU's latest package lists 34 individuals and 47 entities, targeting Russia's shadow fleet, energy revenues, defence industry and propaganda networks.
The Commission would let member states borrow up to 0.3% of GDP a year for the energy transition; Germany's BEE says it could free up to €27 billion.
Twenty NATO ships and around 6,000 personnel from 15 nations have begun the annual BALTOPS exercise, commanded for the first time from JFC Brunssum.
Officials and analysts told a Warsaw press conference that disinformation against wind power is a funded Russian operation, with a record 2026 propaganda budget and energy named as a deliberate target.
Experts at PSEW 2026 said onshore wind is among Poland's cheapest power sources and could cut energy bills, but warned that grid limits, permitting and public opposition still hold it back.
An Ørsted survey presented at PSEW 2026 found strong Polish support for renewables but widespread misperceptions about the cost and efficiency of offshore wind.
On Global Wind Day, WindEurope urged EU policymakers to protect flexible community participation models, warning that draft EU rules could weaken the local benefits wind farms deliver.
A Warsaw press conference brought together ministers, analysts, scientists, an investor and a mayor to confront wind-energy myths and the funded disinformation behind them.
Opening a Warsaw conference, Minister Urszula Zielinska called wind-energy disinformation 'a slow drip of poison' and a deliberate, funded operation that is a matter of state security.
On Global Wind Day, WindEurope spotlights how communities share in wind farm revenues — and warns that draft EU participation rules could undermine the very models that build local support.
PGE Baltica has signed a contract with a consortium led by PROJMORS ASE Group to design the onshore grid connection for the roughly 1.3 GW Baltica 9+ offshore wind project, with power routed to the Krzemienica substation.
ORLEN Neptun and the Szczecin-Świnoujście ports authority have signed a letter of intent to study expanding the Świnoujście Offshore Terminal, Poland's first offshore wind installation terminal, one year after it opened.
Metsähallitus has used GPS tracking of the globally threatened Baltic gull to map feeding areas and flight paths around its planned Ebba offshore wind farm in Finland.
DNV has certified the third BSH milestone for RWE's 660 MW Nordseecluster A, clearing the German North Sea project for turbine installation.
EU finance ministers agreed to extend the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism to downstream steel and aluminium products, roughly doubling the Commission's proposed scope.
At E-PINE talks in Tallinn and Narva, Baltic, Nordic and US officials reaffirmed transatlantic security cooperation, flagging hybrid threats and Russia's shadow fleet.