Stillstrom by Maersk has won EU Innovation Fund backing to build the first commercial 8 MW offshore charger for electric service operation vessels in wind farms.
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.
Enlight and ENERTRAG have begun building the 200 MW, 840 MWh Bertikow battery storage project in Brandenburg, with commissioning planned for late 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.
MacGregor has won an order to fit motion-compensated cranes and gangways on four CSOVs for IWS Fleet, due for delivery in 2029 and 2030.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Rotterdam accelerator PortXL has picked 11 start-ups for its 2026 programme, among them dockside wind-turbine, drone-radar and antifouling developers.
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.
Finland's Government may rule on Posiva's Onkalo licence from October, while Estonia builds a nuclear regulator and both Baltic neighbours study the Finnish model.
EU funding for subsea cable repair covers telecom lines, not the power cables carrying offshore wind and interconnector traffic, leaving grid operators to pool their own vessels and spares as a nascent rental market fills the equipment gap.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dutch blade specialists We4Ce and ADIOS Technology have combined commercial operations under the eProWind brand, pairing on-site root bushing repairs with electrothermal de-icing, as We4Ce hands over leadership.
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.
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.
Berlin-based scopea GmbH launches at WindEnergy Hamburg 2026, offering wind measurement campaigns, operational analysis and independent expert assessments from one source.
Ventoplani, a Politecnico di Milano spin-off from the Horizon Europe project MERIDIONAL, is commercialising tethered airborne 'windplanes' for homes, businesses and off-grid sites.
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.
An explainer on the specialist ships that build Baltic offshore wind: jack-ups with 3,200-tonne cranes, Cadeler's EUR 2.7 billion backlog, heavy-lift newbuilds due in 2028, and Poland's plan for its first cable-laying vessel.
A sensor buoy four nautical miles off Klaipėda now streams sea and GPS-interference data to shore, serving as a fixed reference for ships when satellite navigation fails.
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.
Finland's Sari Multala hosted Estonia's Andres Sutt and Latvia's Jānis Vitenbergs at Posiva's spent fuel repository in Eurajoki, weeks after STUK's favourable statement. The operating licence proposal could reach the Finnish Government in October.
Finland's Ministerial Finance Committee has endorsed 21 million euros in investment aid for a 100,000-tonne biogenic carbon capture plant at Metsä Fibre's Rauma pulp mill, with the captured CO2 destined for renewable electrofuels.
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.
Subsea Cable Assets has begun renting out cable carousels, starting with 4,000 and 6,000-tonne systems already contracted to a European client.
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.
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.
NextOcean will fit its WavePredictor motion radar to the ESVAGT NJORD, a service operations vessel working at the Dudgeon offshore wind farm, to widen safe transfer windows.
From reef panels on a floating platform to ultrasonic bat sensors in Latvian waters and GPS-tagged gulls off Finland, offshore wind's environmental surveys are becoming applied marine science.
Electric cranes accounted for more than 80% of MacGregor's crane order intake in the first half of 2026, with heavy-lift and multipurpose vessels driving most of the demand.
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.
Congestion cost Europe EUR 8.9bn in 2024 and 72 TWh was curtailed. From GriffinLink to Baltic cable repair modules and Finland's hydrogen roadmap, the region's binding constraint is shifting from generation to everything that carries it.
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.
Renewables neared half of EU electricity in July 2026, with solar almost level with nuclear as heat and low water constrained European reactors.
DNV has certified MacGregor's Horizon gangway for floating-to-floating personnel transfer, using a redesigned tip and LiDAR motion tracking to connect two independently moving vessels.
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.
ABB will deliver four 3.5 MW Azipod units and a full power system for Grand Tour, a 230-metre semi-submersible built to move offshore converter stations for Allseas.
A DNV-witnessed trial at Esbjerg has shown Stillstrom's cable control system managing offshore charging automatically while a vessel holds position on DP.
CS Wind Offshore has replaced manual flame-cutting with a magnet-mounted CNC gantry machine for cable penetrations in transition pieces, achieving 0.3 mm tolerance.
The Baltic is too shallow to need Neretek's BC90 foundation. But the factories, quays and welders that a 60-90 metre foundation class would draw on are already working on Baltica 2.
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.
WindEurope has opened applications for Hack the Climate 2026 in Dublin, a 28–30 September hackathon tackling renewable curtailment with partners ESB, Hitachi Energy, Microsoft and SSE Airtricity.
Deepwater foundations, floating platforms designed to host marine life, and hybrid wave-wind-solar units point to an offshore toolbox built for the Baltic's crowded, contested seas.
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.
Finland's economy ministry has issued its competent authority statement on the EIA programme for Kuopion Energia's planned small modular reactor plant for district heating in Kuopio, asking the developer to further specify the assessment.
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.
Innovate UK combines a £10m competition, a £5m Wind Innovation Hub and the £12m first phase of the LSIC centre, with Vestas as launch partner.
Saitec has installed shell-filled habitat elements and an oyster, mussel and algae aquaculture pilot on its DemoSATH floating wind demonstrator.
Wood Thilsted and COP Frontier have launched Neretek, whose BC90 foundation targets the 60–90 m depth gap between fixed-bottom and floating offshore wind.
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.
Light:Guard will fit 83 turbines across 21 NOTUS energy projects with demand-controlled night marking under a new multi-year framework agreement.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
ENGIE and European Energy will develop a 150 MW renewable hydrogen plant near Kassø in Denmark, targeting operations around 2030 and supply to Germany.
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.
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.
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.
At EKF 2026 in Sopot, PSE chief Grzegorz Onichimowski called Poland's low electrification rate a 'civilisational distance' and a question of security and resilience.
Estonia cut greenhouse-gas emissions 66.5% versus 1990, led by a power-sector shift from fossil fuels to renewables that also helped lower electricity prices.
Finland's Vetyalfa will receive a record EUR 224m from the EU Innovation Fund for its Cloudberry green hydrogen project, having bid the lowest price for the largest volume.
A joint Alterric and E-Bridge study finds Germany's market for reactive power remains fragmented and underused, leaving potential savings on network charges unrealised.
Chint Solar Europe has sold a 56 MW / 180 MWh battery portfolio in eastern Germany to Second Foundation in one of the country's first forward-COD storage deals, advised by Capcora.
Germany's ZEREZ register now accepts certificates with grid-forming properties for the instantaneous reserve market, effective 1 June 2026.
Alterric has brought a 2 MW battery online at its Oslebshausen wind farm near Bremen, its first storage unit, with six more totalling over 100 MWh in the pipeline.
ABB has secured a contract with Cochin Shipyard to supply power and propulsion systems for two battery-electric harbour tugs operating under India's Green Tug Transition Programme at the country's largest container port.
Sweden's county administrations approved 130 large-scale battery parks totalling more than 5 GW between 2021 and 2025, Green Power Sweden reports, with the industry body calling for a national storage strategy and improved grid access rules.
A UK safety investigation has traced a fire aboard the offshore wind service vessel Kommandor Susan to non-genuine bearings installed during a 2019 overhaul, the MAIB reported in 2025.
ENERTRAG has announced a €1.1 billion investment plan in France targeting 1 GW of installed capacity by 2030, using hybrid energy hubs that combine wind farms with battery storage.
Berg Propulsion has formalised a service and support agreement with Stone Marine Services, strengthening its presence in the UK and Ireland as demand for electric marine drivetrains grows.
Kyon Energy has simultaneously broken ground on large-scale battery storage projects in North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony-Anhalt, and Schleswig-Holstein, signalling portfolio-scale deployment in Germany's energy storage sector.
Aderco has launched 2055G+, a programme combining its marine fuel additive with verified emissions monitoring and Gold Standard carbon credit issuance for ship operators facing IMO CII and EU ETS obligations.
WindEurope's Technology Workshop convenes in Rotterdam on 11-12 June 2026, drawing over 450 experts to explore data-driven improvements in wind farm performance and resource assessment.
Jumbo Maritime has ordered two new L-Class heavy lift vessels from China's Dajin Heavy Industry, each equipped with dual Huisman 1,200-tonne cranes, with deliveries scheduled for 2028 and 2029.
A FESOM-C model study explicitly simulating 692 North Sea monopiles at metre-scale finds wind farm arrays create basin-wide tidal disruptions, with turbine layout playing a key role in cumulative impact.
Nordex Group has commenced rotor blade production at its new 130,000 m² facility in Menemen, Turkey, with capacity for up to 1,200 blades per year serving both Turkey's YEKA programme and European export markets.
Tion Renewables has signed a long-term PPA to supply solar power to IONITY's German EV charging network from 2027, as renewable producers and charging operators deepen their collaboration.
Berg Propulsion has appointed Philip Chaabane as CEO, with Stefan Sedersten moving to Executive Chairman and Jon Töyrä shifting from CFO to COO, effective 1 May 2026.
Saab and Poland's PGZ Group have signed a Strategic Collaboration Agreement covering naval vessels, submarines, an Underwater Technology Centre in Poland, and joint export opportunities.
Helm Operations has received official US Coast Guard recognition for Helm CONNECT Logbook, confirming the digital vessel record-keeping software meets federal standards for commercial marine operators.
GWEC's latest supply-side report shows a record 178 GW of wind capacity was installed globally in 2025, a 40% jump, with all top five manufacturers by annual volume being Chinese for the first time.