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Media Partnership: Reuters Events: Expanding Ports to Achieve Large-Scale Offshore Wind Deployment
European governments have pledged to deliver 160GW of offshore wind within the next decade, requiring €6.5bn of investment in port infrastructure by 2030 to meet these ambitions. In response to these announcements, ports are finding they will need to growing their business [...]
wpd secures 156.9 MW in oversubscribed German onshore wind auction
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 completes 33.6 MW Nachtsheim-Luxem wind farm in Rhineland-Palatinate
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 installs first monopile at Nordlicht I, Germany’s largest offshore wind project
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 wins all six projects, 242 MW, in Germany’s onshore wind auction
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.
WindEurope urges EU to steer ETS revenues into industrial electrification
Ahead of the EU's 17 July ETS review, WindEurope wants the Commission to keep a clear carbon price and channel ETS revenues into industrial electrification.
Alterric warns delayed German energy law reform threatens wind investment
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 wins orders for more than 197 MW of onshore wind from ENOVA and BMR
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.
Continental to power Korbach tyre plant with 20 MW Nordex wind farm
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.
Irregular crossings into the EU fall 40% as new migration pact takes effect
Irregular crossings into the EU fell nearly 40% in the first five months of 2026 to about 39,000, Frontex says, as the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum introduces standardised screening.
EU lawmakers agree defence-readiness package to speed permits and procurement
Parliament and Council negotiators have provisionally agreed a defence-readiness package to speed permits and procurement and back up to €800 billion of investment under Readiness 2030.