Nordex order intake rises 29.5% to 2.8 GW in third quarter
Nordex booked 2,810 MW of orders in the third quarter, with Turkey, Germany and the US the strongest markets.
Nordex booked 2,810 MW of orders in the third quarter, with Turkey, Germany and the US the strongest markets.
JUWI has sold the 24 MW Gyhum wind farm, under construction in Lower Saxony, to a Union Investment fund. Commissioning is expected in early 2027.
The topsides and jackets of OSS Zingst and OSS Darß have left Schiedam and Vlissingen for the German Baltic Sea, linking the 927 MW Gennaker wind farm to 50Hertz's grid.
VSB has started building the 18 MW Liethe-Lehmden repowering project in Rastede, Lower Saxony, where three Vestas V150 turbines will replace four 0.9 MW machines by late summer 2027.
Landwind and Light:Guard have agreed a three-year framework contract for demand-controlled night-time marking on about 130 turbines in more than 20 German wind farms.
Energiequelle has commissioned five Nordex N149 turbines totalling 28.5 MW at Loop and Schönbek in Rendsburg-Eckernförde, with a bird-protection shutdown system and local revenue-sharing.
JUWI has won operation and maintenance contracts for six battery storage projects of 4 to 100 MWh. Its serviced storage portfolio rises to about 700 MWh.
EWE, RWE and Vattenfall are selling alpha ventus, Germany's first offshore wind farm, to Ocean Breeze Energy, which plans to run it beyond its intended 20-year life.
Four events from 2026, from The smarter E in Munich to WindEurope's Rotterdam workshop, point to the same shift: running wind, storage and grids better, not just building more.
Finland's climate minister Sari Multala will open the German-Finnish Hydrogen Dialogue in Munich on 5 October and meet Bavarian ministers during a two-day visit.
M.O.E. says it has issued the first prototype confirmation of grid-forming properties under VDE FNN note 2.1, for SMA's Sunny Central Storage UP-S 4600 inverter.
EWE, RWE and Vattenfall are selling alpha ventus, Germany's first offshore wind farm, to Ocean Breeze Energy, which plans to run it beyond its intended 20-year life.
Germany's Ostwind 3 platform and Poland's Choczewo and Żarnowiec stations show how Baltic offshore wind depends on grid work started years ahead of the turbines.
Lynus has started producing the 800 kWh BESS Cube 2.0 in Dillingen, Bavaria, a modular LFP battery system for new and existing solar sites.
Energiequelle has connected three Vestas V150 turbines totalling 18 MW at Weddelbrook in Schleswig-Holstein, expected to produce about 47,000 MWh a year.
ENERTRAG Service has opened a spare-parts warehouse and training centre at Dauerthal in Brandenburg, with around 50 technicians and twelve apprentices.
Nordex will deliver four N163/6.X and two N175/6.X turbines to Navaris for a 42 MW project near Bitburg, with commissioning planned for July 2028.
Germany's cabinet has sent the WindSeeG amendment to parliament. Two-sided CfDs, a 2,000 to 4,800 MW annual tender path and new rules on securities are the main changes for offshore auctions.
Enova Service is expanding its spare parts, component replacement and maintenance business for Enercon turbines as more German onshore wind farms reach advanced operating age.
Perigus Energy has presented its European onshore wind, solar and storage portfolio for the first time, reporting 668 MW installed while its CEO warned of growing regulatory volatility in its core markets.
Nordex has extended its Delta4000 platform with the N193/7.X, a 7.3 MW turbine for medium and low-wind sites offering up to 14% higher yield than its predecessor.
German onshore developer Enova has reached 1.4 GW of self-operated wind capacity, with 400 MW more under construction, as it works toward a 3 GW target by 2030.
Deutsche WindGuard has signed a framework agreement with China's Sinoma Wind Power Blade for wind tunnel testing in Bremerhaven through 2030, supporting Sinoma's rotor blade development.
A look back at Denmark's energy milestones through 2026 — Thor offshore wind farm's licence and first CO2-reduced turbine, the Bornholm Energy Island pact with Germany, and early answers to the grid bottleneck holding back new renewables.
Navaris has secured 304.5 MW across 11 onshore wind projects in Germany's latest auction round, with a 100 percent bid success rate, days after its rebrand from Qualitas Energy.
TotalEnergies has bundled its German power activities — including VSB, Kyon Energy, QUADRA energy and its offshore wind business in the North and Baltic Seas — into a new unit called Integrated Power Germany.
From 443,000 European wind jobs and 180,000 offshore roles to Germany's inland supply chain, Pomerania's training push and Vestas' cuts at Lindø: a roundup of what the employment figures mean for the Baltic.
Hamburg consultancy F2E has released wake2e 4.0, moving its onshore site suitability software to a single revised method for sectoral effective turbulence intensities aligned with current wake models.
Husum-based purchasing cooperative Routing Energy and Vestas have agreed a strategic partnership giving small and mid-sized German onshore developers access to Vestas turbines, including the EnVentus platform.
EnBW, Allianz, AIP and Norges Bank Investment Management have inaugurated the 64-turbine He Dreiht wind farm in the German North Sea, the first commercial site for Vestas' 15 MW turbine and financed entirely through PPAs.
Matthias Brandt, CEO of Deutsche Windtechnik from 2005 to 2025, becomes managing director of the Berlin developer Saxovent Renewables as Thorsten Freise departs at the end of September.
The Berlin-based platform takes over Qualitas Energy's German portfolio, 200 staff and a 3 GW pipeline, with a focus on onshore wind development and repowering.
The Berlin operations manager has grown its portfolio by 287 MW since January, with 161 MW more under contract, and now runs technical operations for over 1,200 turbines.
A six-month trial at the Sønder Bork wind farm logged 98.7% availability and a theoretical lights-off share of 97.4%, as Denmark prepares to legalise demand-controlled aviation lighting.
Nordex will supply 13 N163/6.X turbines and a 20-year service contract for TEUT Energieprojekte's 91 MW Schönermark-Passow wind farm in Brandenburg, with installation from September 2027 and first power in January 2028.
Energiequelle has commissioned a 4.26 MW Enercon E-138 turbine at Danna in Brandenburg, densifying the Feldheim wind farm without designating new land.
Berlin-based scopea GmbH launches at WindEnergy Hamburg 2026, offering wind measurement campaigns, operational analysis and independent expert assessments from one source.
Deutsche WindGuard Systems has added wonBOT, a natural-language AI assistant, to its WONDER wind farm asset management platform, to be shown at WindEnergy Hamburg.
After the ECB's September rate rise, Germany's IWR institute argues that renewables plus battery storage cut exposure to fossil price shocks, and warns that subsidised gas plants trading on the market would add electricity price risk.
Nordex will replace five 3 MW turbines at the Rauschenberg wind farm in Hesse with five 6.8 MW N175/6.X machines on 199-metre towers for developer EEF, with generation due from summer 2028.
Skyborn Renewables and the EIB announced financial close on Gennaker, a 976.5 MW offshore wind farm off Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, with €2.1 billion of debt from 16 banks and the EIB. Commercial operation is targeted for the end of 2028.
The Mainz developer won support for all three of its bids in the July PV tender, is building nine wind projects totalling 180 MW by 2027, and will plan every future project with battery storage.
Four early-2026 forums, from the Hamburg North Sea Summit to a 47-region declaration in Stockholm, converged on cross-border offshore planning. A roundup of what they decided and what the Baltic can borrow.
Around 600 wind-sector representatives toured German North Sea wind farms aboard the FRS Halunder Jet on 31 August; Husum Wind and WAB now plan a repeat excursion in 2028.
Germany's FGW e.V. has released the final document of its working group on component-based unit certification, proposing early validation of grid behaviour at converter and component level to cut recertification costs for turbines and storage.
The German cabinet has adopted the draft WindSeeG amendment, sending changes to offshore auction design, realisation deadlines, resilience criteria and environmental rules into the parliamentary process.
German wind farms produced 87.46 billion kWh between January and early September, around 14 per cent more than a year earlier, according to IWR data. European figures for the week are incomplete after an ENTSO-E data migration failed.
Perigus Energy has connected an 8.3 MWp solar park built inside a 6.9-hectare fallow deer enclosure in Saarland, with modules raised high enough for the herd to graze underneath.
Permitting used to be the hard part. Now it is the wires: 72 TWh curtailed across Europe, 800 GW stuck in connection queues, and a Baltic hybrid interconnector facing a decision point.
Energiequelle has commissioned a 4.2 MW Enercon turbine at Krummensee in Brandenburg, five years after the permit was issued and after a legal dispute that nearly ran the consent out of time.
Germany's onshore wind auctions are bid 2.6 times over and clearing at record lows. The winners share locked-in turbine supply and secured grid connections — and the harder constraint now sits between the award and the first foundation.
German data puts new onshore wind at 8.2 cents per kWh against gas backup at three to four times that. Auctions are oversubscribed and capital is queueing. The bottleneck has moved entirely to permitting.
Repowering and life extension are becoming a mainstream route to new onshore wind capacity in Germany and the Nordics, as permitting and grid constraints slow greenfield development.
Grid-scale storage is scaling alongside wind in Germany and the Baltics. A look at what Kyon Energy's three-state start and Latvenergo's record investment year say about where flexibility is heading.
Perigus Energy has bought the rights to the 21 MW Olpe-Rehringhausen wind farm from ABO Energy. The three-turbine project was permitted in March 2026.
A study for the Renewable Energies Hamburg cluster puts the sector at around 31,000 jobs and 5.3 billion euros in gross value added, with wind the largest segment at about 13,000 jobs.
Frankfurt advisory firm Capcora will run the sale of wind project rights totalling about 32 GW held by the insolvent SOWITEC Group, including roughly 330 MW in Germany.
The Varel-based services company now monitors more than 1 GW of wind, solar, hybrid and storage capacity in Germany and the Netherlands from its 24/7 control room.
SuedLink's 5.2 km ElbX tunnel under the Elbe is complete. Cable pulling starts late 2027 and the 700 km link enters service at the end of 2028.
Germany added 3,948 MW of wind between January and July 2026, up 53 per cent year on year, with 1,194 MW of it offshore after a year with no offshore commissioning at all.
Germany's grid connection package faces a constitutional opinion against it, doubts over EU-law compatibility, a Bundeskartellamt warning and an EU complaint against the capacity market law.
All 64 Vestas 15 MW turbines are installed at EnBW's 960 MW He Dreiht, Germany's largest offshore wind farm, built without subsidy and backed by corporate PPAs.
After Germany's offshore auction drew zero bids, the WindSeeG draft proposes 2,000-4,800 MW annual volumes, two-sided CfDs and 35-year operating lives. Industry says it does not go far enough.
An IWR analysis argues that Germany's capacity market, EEG amendment and grid connection package shift system control to regulated monopolies and will push electricity prices up rather than down.
BWO hosts an online panel on 26 August with Peter Liese MEP, Steelwind Nordenham, Salzgitter and Ørsted on what ETS revision means for offshore wind steel.
Eurowind Energy has bought two permitted onshore wind projects in Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania totalling 86.7 MW across thirteen turbines.
Two Limburg wind farms have been fitted with aircraft detection lighting by Dark Sky and ENERTRAG Systemtechnik, with Dutch regulator approval and test flights to follow.
Nordex Group reported a 10.3 per cent EBITDA margin, a 32 per cent jump in order intake and €165m of free cash flow in the second quarter of 2026, and confirmed its full-year guidance.
Alterric has lifted its syndicated green loan from €300m to €350m, with Crédit Agricole CIB joining Commerzbank and ING, to match a development pipeline of around 11,000 MW.
Nordex will supply twelve turbines totalling around 82 MW for community wind projects at Erlte-Endel and the Bad Essen cluster in Lower Saxony, with commissioning planned for spring 2028.
Germany's 70 GW offshore target now hinges less on ambition than on money. Three reforms — CfD auctions, the AgNes network-charge overhaul and cross-border grid links — are reshaping the economics, with clear lessons for the Baltic.
Germany's 2026 onshore wind auctions are heavily oversubscribed. A look at the volumes, prices and the developers — Qualitas, UKA, Alterric — shaping the market, and what it means for the Baltic.
ENOVA has set up ENOVA Generation GmbH, majority-owned by Sosteneo, taking on eleven German wind farms (~350 MW) with a target of 1 GW.
Germany's BMWE has opened consultation on the 2026 WindSeeG amendment, introducing two-sided CfDs and a 35-year operating life. The offshore association BWO backs the direction but says the two-stage tender model must not turn price protection into a last resort.
ENOVA has finished repowering its Gehrde wind farm near Osnabrück, replacing four 2002-era Enercon E-66 turbines with three E-138 machines for a combined 12.6 MW.
ENERTRAG has opened a wind-service training centre in Dauerthal, training apprentices fully in-house and recruiting technicians from abroad as the sector's skills shortage bites.
Germany's cabinet has passed the EEG 2027 amendment and grid-connection package. Wind developer Alterric warns the rules could seriously slow the renewables build-out and urges the Bundestag to revise them.
VSB has finished the Vockenrod wind farm expansion in Hesse, adding two Nordex N149-5.X turbines to reach five machines and 28.5 MW in total.
Qualitas Energy has started building the 42 MW Ingstetten repowering in Baden-Württemberg, swapping five old turbines for six Enercon E-175 machines.
Alterric says Germany's cabinet-approved EEG amendment and grid connection package risk raising generation costs and stalling the renewables build-out, and has urged the Bundestag to make corrections.
Qualitas Energy has started construction on the repowering of the Ingstetten wind farm, replacing five old turbines with six 7 MW Enercon E-175 machines for a total of 42 MW.
VSB Deutschland has completed the expansion of its Vockenrod wind farm in Hesse, taking the site to five turbines and 28.5 MW of installed capacity.
Sweden approved over 5 GW of battery parks in five years, Kyon Energy is building across three German states at once, and Alterric is co-locating storage with wind — a snapshot of the Baltic–German battery boom.
The Nordex Group has closed a €2.475 billion ESG-linked syndicated guarantee facility running to 2031, arranged with 15 banks, which its CFO calls the completion of the company's turnaround.
RWE has sent first power to the German grid from Nordseecluster A, the 660 MW opening phase of its 1.6 GW North Sea offshore wind project.
After a failed 2025 auction and suspended 2026 rounds, Germany has moved to reset its offshore wind market — through a North Sea investment pact, regulatory protection for existing projects, a Bundesrat reform push and cross-border cooperation that increasingly runs through the Baltic.
energy grid service has received the final VDE component certificate for its self-developed P6-EnergyControlSystem 3.1 grid controller, clearing it for use in wind, solar and hybrid plants.
Battery storage additions in Germany hit a new record in the first half of 2026, with IWR warning that the market is outpacing federal energy policy.
France and Germany awarded more than 3 GW in heavily oversubscribed onshore wind auctions at falling prices, but WindEurope warned that limited auction visibility is pushing developers to rush projects to market.
German aircraft-detection lighting specialist Lanthan Safe Sky has relaunched as NOLITE, bringing its wind-turbine night-marking technology, operations and services together under one brand.
GEOMAR researchers are studying seagrass carbon sinks and phytoplankton across three Baltic legs aboard Team Malizia's converted research sailing vessel.
Capcora and suena energy have published a whitepaper analysing how offtake strategies, risk allocation and financing structures determine whether battery storage projects can secure debt financing.
Bundesnetzagentur data show German wind additions accelerating in the first half of 2026 on an offshore comeback, while new solar installations decline.
Light:Guard will fit 83 turbines across 21 NOTUS energy projects with demand-controlled night marking under a new multi-year framework agreement.
Developers brought wind projects totalling around 900 MW to the UKA Group in the first half of 2026, adding to roughly 1.5 GW the company has under construction.
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.
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.