What's happening in renewables

Alternergy has energised the 64MW Alabat wind farm in Quezon in the Philippines, according to the Asian Power report, whose web address carries those details. The project is expected to supply 218,500 households. Energisation is a milestone for the wind farm, although the report's brief text gives no further detail on its timing, turbines or the other parties involved in building it.

CanREA has welcomed Canada's Budget 2026, saying it takes up key recommendations from its Clean Power Nation work. Clean electricity tax credits will run until 2040 and will also cover high-voltage transmission, and a bonus is added for components made in Canada. The industry body says these steps give investors the certainty they need to build affordable wind, solar and energy storage for reliable electricity supply.

Finland has set out how it plans to auction offshore wind, reNEWS reports, and has designated four sites for development. The first tender is scheduled for 2027. The plan matters to developers because it gives the country's offshore programme defined locations and a starting date, although the report's summary does not give capacities for the four sites or say when later tenders would follow.

RWE has commissioned a third wind farm at Bedburg. The 60MW project takes the combined wind capacity of the partners involved to 156MW, so this latest addition accounts for a large share of the total. The milestone shows the Bedburg wind farms growing in stages, although the report's summary does not name the partners working with RWE or give the location in more detail.

Ørsted said on Thursday that its 704-megawatt Revolution Wind, near Connecticut and Rhode Island, is now completely operational. Canary Media says the $6.2 billion project got there despite the Trump administration's repeated and continuing efforts to halt its development, and counts it as the third major US offshore wind farm to reach full operation. The result matters because a project that faced sustained federal opposition has still been finished.

The Government of the Netherlands regards the Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference as the leading event for the offshore energy sector, and it is taking part in OEEC 2026 to share knowledge and expertise. The report sets out that view of the event in brief. It shows the Dutch state treating an industry exhibition as a place to exchange what it has learned with the offshore energy business.

HEA Energy has reached an agreement to buy Seaway7 Heavy Transport, the heavy transportation arm of Seaway7, which belongs to the Subsea7 Group. The deal moves this vessel business to a new owner and takes the activity out of the Subsea7 Group. It matters for the offshore wind supply chain because it changes who controls a specialist heavy transport operation, though the summary gives no price.

Vard has cut first steel for NB 1004, the second of two commissioning service operation vessels ordered by UPO, a joint venture. Starting construction moves the two-ship order forward at the yard, with the second hull now under way. The step shows that building work on this pair of CSOVs is continuing, and it brings UPO closer to having both ships it ordered.

Windpower Monthly reports that Ørsted has confirmed the commissioning of Revolution Wind. The item carries no further text, so it gives no capacity, date or other project detail of its own. Its importance lies in the confirmation itself, which comes from Ørsted and establishes that the offshore wind farm has passed this milestone. Fuller details of the project appear in other reports in today's briefing.

Rezolv has signed a 10-year virtual power purchase agreement with Ahold Delhaize for output from solar and wind projects in Romania, in a deal described as 370GWh. The contract gives the developer a long-term buyer for renewable generation in the country. It is notable for covering two technologies in a single agreement and for running for a full decade, which gives both sides a lasting commitment.

Cadeler has set up an office in Rotterdam focused on offshore wind. The new base will serve operations, engineering and technical teams across Europe. The opening shows the company placing support functions for its offshore wind activity in the Netherlands, and it gives those three groups of staff a shared European location from which to back the company's work in the region.

Energiekontor has commissioned two wind parks at Elsdorf with a combined capacity of 40MW. Completion came on schedule, and the two projects will count towards the company's 2026 earnings. The milestone matters for its financial year because finishing on time allows the wind parks to contribute to this year's results, rather than leaving that contribution to fall into a later reporting period.

Ørsted and Skyborn Renewables have completed the commissioning of their 704 MW Revolution Wind offshore wind farm in the US. The project is now delivering electricity to Rhode Island and Connecticut. Full commissioning means the two partners have brought the whole wind farm into service, so both states are now receiving output from the entire project rather than from part of it.

Nordex has reaffirmed the higher margin guidance it set out earlier, following a strong third quarter. The turbine manufacturer's income for the quarter was three times the level of a year before. Confirming the guidance tells investors that the company stands by its improved margin outlook after these results, and the sharp rise in income shows how much stronger the quarter was than the same period last year.

In a Windpower Monthly exclusive, a wind industry expert argues that the Trump administration's renewed attacks on offshore wind approvals raise doubts over how durable approvals are. The concern goes beyond energy and extends to all infrastructure projects in the US. The argument matters because it treats the dispute over wind as a test of permitting more broadly, with implications for developers in any sector.

Germany's Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency, the BSH, has given Fugro a multi-year framework agreement for geotechnical site work linked to offshore wind. The award makes Fugro a contractor to the state agency over several years rather than for a single job. It matters because it gives the company a lasting role in the geotechnical work behind offshore wind in German waters.

The UK intends to put off its next renewable energy auction while it looks at whether the contracts for difference scheme needs significant changes. The CfD mechanism has supported much of the country's wind power growth. The pause in the 2027 round matters because the scheme has been so central to wind development there, and any reform could alter the terms offered to future projects.

Windpower Monthly has published an analysis of how Chinese provinces are building on their individual strengths as the country's attention moves beyond simply adding capacity. The item carries only a headline, so no provinces or figures are given. The theme points to a change of emphasis in China's wind sector, away from the volume of new installations and towards what each province does best.

Deutsche Windtechnik will service and maintain all twelve turbines at alpha ventus, Germany's first offshore wind farm, under a contract with the project's new owner. The wind farm has a capacity of 60 MW. The award follows the change of ownership and gives one company responsibility for the whole site, which holds a notable place as the first offshore project in the country.

Ørsted slid to a third-quarter loss of DKK 728 million, or €97 million. Impairments of DKK 3.4 billion linked to its US offshore wind projects wiped out its earnings for the period. The result shows how heavily the American portfolio weighed on the company's accounts in the quarter, and it links the group's financial performance directly to the state of offshore wind in the US.

Nordex made net income of €147 million in the third quarter of 2026, close to three times what it earned in the same quarter last year. Windpower Monthly links the jump to stronger margins. The result marks a sharp improvement in profitability for the company, and it shows net income in this quarter running far ahead of the level the company reached a year earlier.

Asian Power reports a partnership intended to advance floating offshore wind in Japan, with its web address naming Siemens Energy as a partner. The arrangement includes developing the workforce, with the stated aim of making Japan's wind industry stronger. Its inclusion of training shows that skills are being treated as part of building floating wind in the country, alongside the projects themselves. The item gives no capacity figures or project names.

India and Denmark are looking at closer collaboration covering offshore wind, green hydrogen and renewables more widely. Their relationship dates back to Danish help in setting up the National Institute of Wind Energy in Chennai. India's installed wind capacity has since grown to almost 60 GW, roughly eight times the Danish figure, so the talks now take place between two countries whose positions in wind have changed considerably since that start.

Vattenfall has put its signature to the agreements for two Danish offshore wind projects, Hesselø and Holmsland. The developer secured both in August at the end of a tender process. Signing formalises those wins and moves the two projects from the award stage to a contracted footing, confirming Vattenfall as the company responsible for taking them forward in Denmark's offshore wind programme.

Grasim is working with Suzlon on wind turbine blades that can be recycled, in a pilot built around Grasim's Recyclamine epoxy technology. Aditya Birla Renewables will put a turbine into service at one of its sites as part of the trial. The partnership matters because it tests the material on a working turbine and joins the epoxy's developer, a turbine maker and a project owner in one pilot.

Energia Group has held the official opening of Crossmore, a 25MW wind farm in County Clare, Ireland. The Irish energy group now has the project formally in service following the ceremony. The opening adds to the onshore capacity in the county and marks the point at which the wind farm moves from a project under development to a publicly launched part of the company's portfolio.

Share prices of European wind companies leapt when the US midterm results showed that the Democrats will hold the House of Representatives and the Senate from early next year. Analysts said this makes the outlook for wind in the US somewhat better. Windpower Monthly frames the result as a defeat for an anti-wind president, and the market reaction shows how exposed European groups are to American policy.

Goldwind's net profit for the third quarter of 2026 came in at CNY 1.02 billion, or $150 million, which is 6.9% lower than in the same period a year earlier. The Chinese turbine manufacturer's results show earnings under pressure during the quarter. The fall shows that, although the company stayed profitable, it earned less than it did twelve months before.

The Scottish Onshore Wind Developers Forum wants ministers to adopt a target of 30GW of onshore wind by 2040. The group argues that such a goal would strengthen the economy and protect jobs. By putting forward a specific figure and date, the developers are asking the government for a long-term commitment and presenting the case in economic terms as well as in terms of energy.

Cadeler has appointed Fugro to carry out seabed surveys after installation at East Anglia Two, a 960 MW offshore wind farm. The work follows the installation activity at the site and checks seabed conditions once equipment is in place. The contract gives Fugro a role on a large UK project, and it shows an installation contractor bringing in a specialist survey company for this stage of construction.

Stillstrom by Maersk has finished building a vessel-mounted 11 kV unit and put it through factory acceptance testing. The equipment is designed to let service vessels connect to power while they work at offshore wind farms. Completing construction and testing moves the product closer to use at sea, and it matters because charging at the wind farm is what would allow service operations to draw electricity on site.

Cadeler has won a contract for turbine installation at the Dogger C project. Its new A-Class vessel, Wind Apex, will start on the job from next year. The award gives a newbuild ship a confirmed job on an offshore wind scheme, so it matters for Cadeler's vessel plans as well as for the project's installation work, which will now have this ship available from next year.

Cadeler has signed a firm agreement to bring its vessel Wind Apex into the turbine installation campaign at Dogger Bank C, the UK offshore wind project. A correction to the report states that Seaway Ventus is the vessel currently working at Dogger Bank B. The deal adds a further ship to the installation effort at the Dogger Bank development, so it is relevant to both Cadeler's fleet schedule and the project's progress.

Researchers from several countries have devised a way of using lasers to strip the EVA encapsulant from aged silicon solar cells, reaching selective silver recovery above 95%. The same process makes it easier to take out aluminium and to recover silicon from end-of-life panels. It matters because it points to a route for reclaiming several valuable materials from old modules, rather than just one, as retired panels are recycled.

Phnix, a manufacturer from China, has brought out a home air-to-water heat pump that puts space heating, cooling, thermal storage and domestic hot water into one outdoor unit. The system runs on R290 refrigerant, which is propane, and has a nominal heating output of 6 kW with a seasonal coefficient of performance of up to 5.1. The launch brings four household functions together in a single piece of outdoor equipment.

OPIS, a Dow Jones company, says in its weekly pricing note for pv magazine that wafer prices in China held steady. Firm polysilicon prices supported the market, although underlying conditions remained weak. The update tracks the main price movements across the global PV industry, so the reading gives buyers and manufacturers a view of a market where upstream costs are holding up while fundamentals stay soft.

EcoFlow has added two new series to its range of portable power stations. pv magazine places the launch within a wider move across the industry towards units that are smaller yet hold more energy, use less power on standby and offer special operating modes. The release shows the company following that direction in its product line. The report's summary gives no capacity or pricing figures for the new series.

NASA astronauts are on a seven-hour spacewalk to put the last roll-out solar wing in place on the International Space Station. The work completes a power upgrade lasting several years, taking the station's generating capacity in orbit from 160 kW to about 215 kW. The installation closes that programme and leaves the station with substantially more electricity available than it had when the overhaul began.

Hadean Energy has taken forward a hydrogen technology that started as CSIRO research in Australia and could reduce electricity use by 30%. Its backers say this could lower the cost of green hydrogen and make lower-emissions steelmaking and other industrial uses more commercially viable. The claim remains a potential gain rather than a demonstrated result, as the report describes what the technology may achieve.

An article in pv magazine India argues that the country's energy independence rests on more than the quantity of clean electricity it produces. Its case is that ownership of the capability behind that power counts too, and that what India can build for itself will decide the matter. The piece frames self-reliance as a question of industrial capacity at home rather than of generation totals alone.

German startup Revolta has commissioned its first customer system, a 10 kWh sodium-ion battery for the home, and the report says the site chosen is an unusual one. More pilot installations are due around Germany in the coming weeks. The installation takes the company into customer use for the first time, and it puts sodium-ion chemistry into German homes on a pilot basis.

Hoymiles, the Chinese inverter maker, has signed a strategic agreement with three partners covering solar, energy storage and manufacturing projects in Oman. The proposed partnership is worth $100 million and includes a renewable energy investment fund as well as a factory for solar inverters, aimed at Middle Eastern and other markets. The deal would give the company a production base in Oman, although the facility remains a plan at this stage.

New analysis in pv magazine looks at the demand for copper, aluminium, silicon and other key materials as worldwide PV deployment heads towards tens of terawatts. Demand for these materials is expected to rise substantially, but the quantities needed will not be set by installed capacity alone. Technological developments also play a part, which means future material requirements depend on how panels are made as well as how many are installed.

Sungrow has teamed up with ReSolve Global, a solar panel recycling business in Byron Bay in the Northern Rivers, so that the new recycling facility can run on clean energy that it generates itself. The partnership supports the business's clean energy goals. It means a plant dealing with old solar panels would draw on its own clean supply, which fits the purpose of a company built around recycling them.

Australia's federal government has reportedly dropped a plan for heavy new tariffs on imported steel products used in large-scale solar projects. A federal minister is said to have revoked the proposal after the solar industry appealed, warning of higher costs and delays. The decision matters for developers of utility-scale solar, who had argued that the anti-dumping measure would push up project costs and slow down construction.

Australia's electricity transmission networks must now run a power system that is changing more quickly than the tools and processes they use to operate it, pv magazine Australia reports. The industry has formally recognised this shortfall in operational capability. The acknowledgement matters because it shows that those responsible for the networks themselves see a gap opening between what the system demands and what they are equipped to do.

Frontier Energy's Waroona Project in Western Australia pairs 132 MW of solar with an 81.5 MW battery energy storage system. The company has reached a project finance debt facility agreement worth up to $280 million, which puts it on course to secure funding for building Stage One. Debt finance on this scale is an important step for the project, moving it closer to construction in the state.

RenewEconomy reports that rooftop solar in Australia is on course for its largest year of growth on record, in a year that has otherwise been dominated by big and small batteries. The growth is riding what the publication calls the consumer energy revolution, and it says the mid-scale boom has not arrived yet. The report suggests that small-scale generation is still gathering pace, with more to come from mid-scale systems.

SunWiz's monthly update puts Australian rooftop solar installations at 3,138 MW for January to October 2026. That total is 41% higher than in the same months of 2025. The market analyst's figures give a measured view of how strongly the rooftop segment has grown this year, and they show a sizeable lead over last year with two months of 2026 still to be counted.

India's government has cleared INR 14,500 crore, or $1.53 billion, of viability gap funding for 92 GWh of grid-scale storage, to be built by fiscal 2030-31. Pumped hydro, batteries and alternative technologies all qualify, and battery projects must meet a 40% domestic content requirement. The measure matters because it puts public money behind several storage types at once, while tying the battery share to local supply.

Rohit Gupta, head of RRECL, says Rajasthan wants to keep its renewable energy investment going. In the interview he points to spending on transmission infrastructure, battery storage, pumped storage and domestic manufacturing as the ways of doing so. The remarks show a state body looking beyond generation alone, towards the grid, the storage and the factories that support it, as it tries to hold on to its momentum.

Mohan Yadav, chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, says the ₹6,000 crore hydropower plant at Neemuch is finished and should start generating from March. He said it would raise the state's power generation capacity and give it a new identity in renewable energy. The statement sets out a likely timetable for a large investment, and it shows the state presenting the plant as a mark of its renewable ambitions.

India's Cabinet has cleared an INR 14,500 crore viability gap funding scheme for grid-scale energy storage totalling 92 GWh. That total breaks down into 30 GWh of battery systems, 60 GWh of pumped storage and 2 GWh based on emerging technologies. The split shows pumped storage taking the largest share of the support, which makes the scheme significant for hydropower developers as well as battery suppliers.

Austria's VERBUND reported lower earnings for the first nine months, with hydropower output down 20.2%. Reduced generation and lower electricity sales prices both weighed on the result. The figures show how closely the company's earnings follow the volume of power its hydro plants produce and the price it achieves for that electricity, with both factors moving against it during this reporting period.

Water Power & Dam Construction examines Canada's hydropower sector in an analysis covering development, innovation and partnerships with Indigenous groups. The piece says the country has some of the world's greatest resources and that its hydropower looks set to keep moving forward. It presents partnership as a feature of how the sector is advancing, alongside new development and innovation, rather than as a separate subject.

Imperial Irrigation District has signed off almost US$21 million for work on its Pilot Knob Hydropower Plant in California. The money will pay for the refurbishment of one of the plant's two generators. The decision commits a sizeable sum to existing hydropower equipment, and it shows the district choosing to invest in renewing a plant it already has rather than leaving both generators as they are.

Consumers Energy has pushed back the deadline for a regulator to rule on its proposed sale of 13 hydroelectric dams in Michigan. The US utility's move means the outcome of the transaction will take longer to settle. For the communities and buyers involved, it leaves the future ownership of a sizeable group of dams in the state undecided until the regulatory decision eventually arrives.

Three financial institutions have been chosen to structure and raise the money for the Ngonye Falls hydropower project in Zambia. The scheme on the Zambezi River would have a capacity of 180MW and is expected to cost US$800m. Appointing arrangers is a step towards funding the project, and it shows that attention is now turning to how such a large investment will be put together.

Drax Group, Brookfield Asset Management Ltd and Radiant, which is Brookfield's AI infrastructure platform headquartered in the UK, have formed a strategic partnership. They plan to jointly develop, deliver and operate data centre capacity on a gigawatt scale at Drax Power Station in North Yorkshire. The announcement matters because it would place large-scale computing at an established power station and brings an asset manager into the scheme.

Organisers have opened the submission of abstracts for the 2027 European Geothermal PhD Days. The event will take place in Reykjavik, Iceland, from 22 to 24 May 2027. The call gives those working on geothermal research a date and a venue to plan around, and it is the first practical step towards the programme for this edition of the European gathering, more than six months ahead of the meeting.

Exergy has won a contract to provide a 33-MW geothermal power plant for Maren Maras, a client it has worked with before. The plant will be built in Germencik, in Aydin, Türkiye, and forms part of a wider plan for 99 MW. The order shows continuing business between the supplier and the developer, and it represents one third of the capacity in the Germencik plan.

The Polish city of Kutno has obtained government money for a geothermal heating project. The scheme is designed to meet 45% of the city's heating needs. A share of that size would make geothermal a major part of how the city is heated, and the funding is an important step in moving the project ahead, although the report's summary does not state the amount awarded.

Münster's municipal utility has started a fresh round of near-surface geothermal drilling, this time in the Handorf area of the German city. The work belongs to a continuing rollout of cold district heating networks rather than a one-off scheme. It shows a local utility extending shallow geothermal heat to further parts of its supply area, adding another network to those it has been deploying in the city.

France has stopped accepting applications to its Heat Fund, the scheme that pays for renewable heating and cooling projects. Requests for aid have been running ahead of the money available, and the budget for 2027 has been cut. The pause matters for developers of renewable heat, including geothermal, because it leaves them unable to apply for this support while the gap between demand and funding remains open.

Pertamina Geothermal has opened internal reviews and begun negotiations over a pilot data centre in Indonesia that would run on geothermal power. The project would be the country's first of this kind, according to the report, and is described as a green data centre. It remains at an early stage, but it shows an Indonesian geothermal producer exploring computing demand as a possible new use for its electricity.

Seequent has bought Eliis, a company that makes software for interpreting seismic data. The purchase adds this specialist capability to Seequent's existing tools for modelling the subsurface. ThinkGeoEnergy reports the deal because such software is relevant to work underground, and it strengthens the range of products available from one vendor for those who need to understand subsurface conditions in their projects.

Minesto, the Swedish ocean energy developer, has been given the European Commission's Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (STEP) Seal for a 10 MW tidal energy project. The seal recognises the scheme's contribution to energy goals. The award gives Minesto formal European recognition for the project, which matters for a developer seeking to show the value of tidal energy at this scale to the EU.

CorPower Ocean set out how it intends to expand wave energy development in Portugal when Swedish and Portuguese industry representatives visited. The company's plans point to a larger scale of wave energy activity in the country. The visit brought industry from both nations together around the technology, and it gave CorPower Ocean an occasion to present its intentions for Portugal directly to that audience.