The Finnish Government has licensed Posiva to operate its Olkiluoto encapsulation plant and Onkalo repository until 2070, the first such licence worldwide according to the ministry.
Nordex Group will supply 40 N133/4.8 turbines to Mercury's Puke Kapo Hau wind farm on New Zealand's South Island, with a 30-year service agreement.
PGE Baltica, the PGE Group's offshore wind company, is relocating its registered office to Gdańsk, where it already employs more than 50 people.
Elia has put its first SF6-free gas-insulated substation into service at Anthisnes, raising capacity from 13 to 25 MVA in a pilot for future high-voltage investment.
Ignitis and emsys VPP are adding a balancing energy module to their virtual power plant, allowing battery storage to support frequency control in Lithuania.
Swisspower Renewables has opened the 14.5 MWp Prösen solar park in Röderland, Brandenburg, which shares a grid connection with the group's Elsterwerda wind farm.
Enlight and ENERTRAG have begun building the 200 MW, 840 MWh Bertikow battery storage project in Brandenburg, with commissioning planned for late 2027.
Belgium's Walloon government has chosen a preferred corridor for Elia's Avelgem–Courcelles line. A public inquiry follows in early 2027, with commissioning targeted for 2032-2033.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ignitis grupė's Supervisory Board has approved Vytenis Koryzna as final CEO candidate; his election awaits background checks. He would succeed Darius Maikštėnas in March 2027.
Boskalis will install about 149 km of 66 kV inter-array cables linking 69 turbines at phase 1 of the Dutch Zeevonk offshore wind farm, with installation planned for 2029.
Northland Power has closed about PLN 500 million in financing for the Mieczysławów and Kamionka battery projects in Poland, which together will offer 300 MW / 1.2 GWh.
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.
ARP, with PARP, PGE Baltica and Orlen Neptun, has launched a programme of subsidised training and up to PLN 100 million in loans and leasing for Polish offshore wind suppliers.
Klaipėda is rebuilding on three tracks at once: a EUR 600 million southern expansion, NATO-ready quays financed by the EIB and early work on green methanol bunkering.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ocean Winds has laid the cornerstone for an O&M base in Władysławowo that will support its BC-Wind offshore wind farm for decades, as Poland's coastal service infrastructure continues to take shape.
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.
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.
The Klaipėda State Seaport Authority has launched a construction tender for a southern port expansion that will create 100 hectares of new land and lift capacity to about 30 million tonnes of cargo a year.
An explainer on the pieces of the Baltic Sea hydrogen build-out: the Baltic Sea Hydrogen Collector study, the Helsinki producer–buyer corridor, Vetyalfa's EUR 224 million Cloudberry project and the ENGIE–European Energy plant in Denmark.
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.
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.
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.
A tracker of the Bałtyk 2 and 3 offshore wind build: rock placement, first foundations, substation topsides, the onshore grid link and the milestones still ahead before first power in 2027.
Estonia and Latvia have no offshore turbines yet, but the ELWIND and Liivi projects now have design contracts, a seal survey and a year of wind data. Here is where they stand and what comes next.
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.
A roundup of the early-2026 milestones across Poland's three offshore wind projects, from Baltic Power's fishermen compensation to Baltica 2's seabed works and Baltic East's auction price, with a look at what comes next.
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 European Investment Bank has granted Elia Transmission Belgium a 1 billion euro green credit facility for phase two of the Princess Elisabeth Island, its largest energy infrastructure loan in the Benelux. The hub is due to connect Belgium's second offshore wind zone from 2031.
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.
COLI Group has completed a six-month transport of 14 power transformers from GE Vernova's Turkish factory to the onshore site for Poland's Baltica 2 offshore wind farm, using three vessels, two ports and temporary structures over bridges too weak to carry the load.
The Klaipėda State Seaport Authority has completed a concept design for an 800-tonne green methanol bunkering vessel, alongside a study of Baltic demand for alternative marine fuels.
Site preparation has started in the southern part of the Port of Klaipėda, with breakwater construction to follow this autumn under a EUR 24.5 million contract with Tilsta.
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.
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.
With 2.6 GW installed, Poland's first dedicated offshore installation port and a 6 GW project pipeline offshore, West Pomerania has the infrastructure. Whether it becomes an industrial base or a transit hub depends on local content.
Baltic Power's construction ends in the second half of 2026 and the Łeba base pivots to roughly 30 years of operations. The open question is whether it becomes a single-farm service base or the anchor of a Baltic O&M cluster.
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.
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.
With 111 foundations in place at Baltica 2, more than 400 secondary steel units follow — around 75 per cent of them made in Poland — in work running to the end of 2026.
Eurowind Energy has bought two permitted onshore wind projects in Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania totalling 86.7 MW across thirteen turbines.
PGE and Ørsted have installed all 111 monopile foundations at the 1.5 GW Baltica 2 offshore wind farm on schedule. Secondary steel work now runs to the end of 2026, with turbines due in 2027.
BrestPort has secured over €58 million from France 2030 to convert its offshore renewables terminal for floating wind assembly, with Lorient taking on mooring logistics and maintenance.
The 23rd and final caisson is in place at the Princess Elisabeth Energy Island off Belgium, completing foundation works. Cable connections follow in 2027–2028, with full completion due in 2031.
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.
"First power to the grid" sounds like flipping a switch, but it is the visible tip of offshore wind commissioning — a sequence running from seabed surveys and cable trenching to onshore substation tests and grid-operator compliance. Baltic Power and Baltica 2 show how it works.
Poland's first purpose-built offshore wind installation port anchors a supply chain forming along the West Pomeranian coast. A look at how installation terminals work and why they set the pace of the build-out.
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.
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.
With Baltic Power online, the PGE–Ørsted Baltica programme is Poland's next offshore frontier — from the Choczewo substation to 150 km of seabed cable routes and 107 turbines bound for Gdańsk.
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.
Ports, factories and a growing supply chain are turning Poland's West Pomeranian coast into the industrial base for the country's offshore wind expansion.
Poland's first offshore wind farm has gone from empty seabed to first power in under two years. Here is how Baltic Power was built — and what comes after the turbines are switched on.
Szczecin and Świnoujście are developing into major offshore wind bases, with ORLEN Neptun's installation terminal already booked at 70% of capacity.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
ENGIE and European Energy will develop a 150 MW renewable hydrogen plant near Kassø in Denmark, targeting operations around 2030 and supply to Germany.
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.
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.