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600 industry representatives sail to German North Sea wind farms; Husum Wind and WAB commit to repeat excursion in 2028
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.
FGW publishes blueprint for component-based grid certification of wind turbines and storage
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.
German cabinet approves WindSeeG amendment, reopening offshore auction design
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 feed-in runs 14 per cent ahead of last year through early September
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 connects 8.3 MWp solar park built inside a working deer enclosure
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.
The grid is the bottleneck: what Europe’s connection queues mean for Baltic wind
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.
Five years from permit to first power: Energiequelle commissions 4.2 MW turbine at Krummensee
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.
Oversubscribed and unbuilt: what Germany’s onshore wind auctions tell the Baltic markets
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.
Onshore wind costs 8.2 cents. Getting permission still costs years
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.
Why onshore wind’s next megawatts are coming from sites that already exist
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.
Batteries are becoming the other half of the wind build-out in Germany and the Baltics
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 takes over permitted 21 MW Olpe-Rehringhausen wind project from ABO Energy
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.
Renewables support 31,000 jobs in the Hamburg metropolitan region, study finds
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.
Capcora appointed to sell SOWITEC’s 32 GW renewables project portfolio
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.
Deutsche WindGuard passes one gigawatt under technical operations management
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.
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