WindEurope says reopening the EU Birds and Habitats Directives would bring legal uncertainty and delay wind projects, and published 40 case studies on wind and biodiversity.
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.
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.
Nordex Group has received orders totalling 389 MW in Türkiye for 56 Delta4000 turbines, with commissioning planned in stages from 2027 to 2028.
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.
Nordex Group has won orders for 35 turbines totalling about 228 MW in several European countries, with service contracts of up to 25 years. Customers were not named.
European Energy has agreed to sell the 21 MW Myślibórz onshore wind project in north-western Poland to TAURON. The six-turbine project is ready for construction.
Nordex has won orders for 34 turbines totalling 175 MW in France, Portugal and Spain, with installation planned for 2027 and 2028. Customers and sites were not named.
Energiequelle has connected three Vestas V150 turbines totalling 18 MW at Weddelbrook in Schleswig-Holstein, expected to produce about 47,000 MWh a year.
Nordex will supply eight 7 MW N175/6.X turbines and a 25-year service deal for W.E.B's 56 MW Auersthal repowering project in Lower Austria, with commissioning planned for 2028.
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.
Finland's combined wind and solar capacity has passed 10 GW, and a wave of offshore wind projects, a record EU hydrogen grant and a nuclear district-heating plan show how the country's energy mix keeps diversifying.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Vejle-based CNC Onsite has set up CNC Onsite Inc. in Houston to offer crane-free uptower yaw ring, shaft and blade root repairs to US wind farm operators, after a 74 per cent rise in gross profit in 2025.
Sweden's parties agree on a lower electricity tax and faster permits, the grid operator wants 8 TWh of new fossil-free power a year, yet the government has frozen the Konti-Skan cable to Denmark. An analysis of what the next government inherits.
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.
A feature on the actors behind Lithuania's rise towards 7 GW of renewables: the Kelmė wind farm and EIB financing, Ignitis's pivot to grids and storage, Klaipėda's port expansion and a prosumer boom.
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.
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.
The industry strategy values Poland's onshore wind market at up to PLN 214 billion by 2040, but the figure rests on 1.5 to 2 GW of annual additions, a turbine supply chain still 75 per cent foreign, and a grid that already curtails 5 to 10 per cent of renewable output.
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.
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.
Europe installed 8.8 GW of new wind capacity in the first half of 2026, 30% more than a year earlier. WindEurope now expects 24 GW for the full year, but warns that falling permitting volumes outside Germany could stall the ramp-up.
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.
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.
Electrum says the renewable capacity it services under O&M contracts in Poland has passed 4 GW, up from close to 3 GW less than a year ago.
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.
A hydrogen-iron battery will provide long-duration wind storage in the Netherlands, while Germany adds a 310 MW Eco Stor site and a 99 MW Zelestra battery under a Centrica tolling deal.
Vestas reported a sharp Q2 profit rise with a EUR 400m buyback and led the RENIXX that week, while Enercon closed its turnaround with new billion-euro financing.
Scatec is moving into Romanian onshore wind, broadening a largely solar portfolio, and reported second-quarter power production up 21 per cent year on year.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Nordex has won an order for around 525 MW — 72 N175/6.X turbines — from Türkerler Holding for the YEKA-5 Sivas project, its largest single order in Turkey.
Nordex will supply 11 N175/6.X turbines for OX2's 77 MW Urleasca wind farm in Romania, now sold to Scatec, with construction starting in Q3 2026.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Nordex Group has booked three new US orders totalling 484 MW, covering 88 turbines from its N133 and N163 platforms.
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.
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.
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.
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.