Hungary’s Ministry of Economy and Energy opened applications on 4 September 2026 for a national wind power tender covering approximately 700 MW across nine grid-connection points in six districts, with…
Berliner Stadtwerke, Berlin’s municipal utility, announced on 2 September 2026 that it has acquired the Diehlo-West wind project from developer JUWI. The project, located in Diehlo, a district of Eisenhüttenstadt…
Germany’s Federal Cabinet approved a draft amendment to the Offshore Wind Energy Act (Windenergie-auf-See-Gesetz, WindSeeG) on 2 September 2026, rewriting how the country will auction offshore wind sites starting in…
Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, adopted Draft Law No. 14271 in its second reading and in full on 2 September 2026, according to the bill’s official record on the Rada’s…
The Voice of Renewables presents our monthly global roundup of wind energy deals announced or closed in August 2026. Covering major PPAs and offtake agreements alongside financing, M&A, refinancings, bonds,…
RWE celebrated the halfway point on the high seas as the 22nd wind turbine was installed around 50 kilometres north of the German island of Juist and half of the…
Author: Derek Michalski, Chief Editor. Offshore wind’s move to High Voltage Direct Current transmission is usually explained as a simple physics fix: AC struggles over distance, DC doesn’t, end of story.…
Author: Derek Michalski, Chief Editor. Until now the Contract for Difference has been treated as settled policy furniture — the mechanism that turned offshore wind from a subsidy-hungry curiosity into Europe’s…
Author: Derek Michalski, Chief Editor. After more than a decade of stagnation, Hungary is moving to rebuild its onshore wind market. A new regulatory framework combines competitive grid-capacity tenders, revised siting…
Author: Derek Michalski, Chief Editor. Europe’s wind turbine procurement market is showing measurable signs of acceleration in 2026, with order intake at the two leading Western European manufacturers materially ahead of…
Author: Derek Michalski, Chief Editor. Europe is committing billions to new reactors as data centres, electrification and AI drive electricity demand higher. But most of the new nuclear capacity will not…
Italy has put in place one of its most significant new frameworks for renewable electricity investment, opening the way for up to 37.15 GW of additional renewable capacity under the definitive FER…
PNE AG has completed the sale of two German onshore wind farm projects with a combined capacity of 45 MW to a consortium of private investors, continuing a busy year of…
Vattenfall has secured the rights to develop two offshore wind projects in Denmark after emerging as the successful bidder in the country’s latest offshore wind tender, adding a minimum of 1.8…
Securing permits is one milestone in developing a wind farm. Securing financing is another altogether. For Romania’s rapidly expanding renewable energy sector, projects reaching financial close are increasingly becoming the…
Scatec has strengthened its position in one of Europe’s fastest-growing renewable energy markets by acquiring the 77 MW Urleasca onshore wind project in Romania from Swedish developer OX2. The transaction…
Swiss composite materials specialist Gurit has strengthened its position in the global wind energy supply chain after securing a new two-year supply agreement with a leading Western wind turbine manufacturer.…
Author: Derek Michalski, Editor. This article is the second instalment of an eight-part series, “Poland’s Electrification Decade: The Race to Build a New Energy System,” examining the market forces, infrastructure challenges and investment…