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Berlin start-up scopea combines wind measurement and independent expert assessments, launching at WindEnergy Hamburg
Berlin-based scopea GmbH launches at WindEnergy Hamburg 2026, offering wind measurement campaigns, operational analysis and independent expert assessments from one source.
Deutsche WindGuard adds AI assistant wonBOT to its WONDER asset management platform
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.
IWR: wind, solar and storage are Germany’s best hedge against the new oil and gas price shock
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 wins 34 MW repowering order in Hesse with N175/6.X turbines on 199-metre towers
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 closes €2.1bn financing for 976.5 MW Gennaker offshore wind farm in German Baltic
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.
wiwi consult wins 80 MW in German solar tender and shifts to wind-solar-storage hybrid projects
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.
From national to regional: how 2026 rewired cooperation around the North Sea and the Baltic
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.
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.
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