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19 Mar 26 |
Grandpuits Zero-crude Platform: TotalEnergies starts production at France’s first Advanced Plastics Recycling Plant TotalEnergies has launched France’s first advanced plastics recycling plant, with an annual capacity of 15,000 tons, at its Grandpuits site southeast of Paris. This start-up marks another step in the conversion of the refinery into a zero-crude platform. |
19 Mar 26 |
Ireland: Form Energy and FuturEnergy Ireland announce agreement to deploy first Iron-Air Battery Storage Project In Ireland Form Energy, an American energy storage company, and FuturEnergy Ireland, a leading Irish clean energy developer, have announced an agreement to jointly deploy a 10 MW / 1,000 MWh iron-air battery system in the northwest of Ireland. Anticipated to come online in 2029, this is the first international deployment of Form Energy’s iron-air, multi-day batteries to be announced – and represents a landmark project for the future of Ireland’s electricity system. |
19 Mar 26 |
UK: National hydrogen network takes major step forward as plans unveiled National Gas sets out plans for more than 300 miles of hydrogen pipeline on the East Coast of England, the first phase of a national hydrogen network for Great Britain. |
19 Mar 26 |
Japan: Vestas announces a new order in Japan Vestas has announced an order in Japan as part of its Q1 order intake. Delivery planned for Q1 2027 and commissioning in 2028. |
19 Mar 26 |
Germany: The Nordex Group receives orders totaling 54 MW from Prowind in Germany The project developer Prowind from Osnabrück has placed two orders with the Nordex Group in Germany. The orders include a total of eight N175/6.X turbines with a total capacity of 54.4 MW. Nordex will supply six wind turbines for the Hogenset wind farm, located in Lower Saxony, and two additional turbines for the Füchtorf project, which extends across Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia. |
17 Mar 26 |
Italy: Zelestra secures 1.5 TWh under Italy’s Energy Release 2.0, supporting new solar capacity Zelestra, a global, multi-technology, customer-focused renewable energy company, has signed bilateral contracts under Italy’s Energy Release 2.0 mechanism for a total volume of 1.5 TWh, reinforcing its position as a key renewable energy partner to Italian industry. |
17 Mar 26 |
UK: Defence experts urge UK to treat energy security as part of national security - and accelerate renewables to reduce exposure to global price shock A new report by Public First, produced in collaboration with the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) and commissioned by RenewableUK, warns that ongoing reliance on internationally-traded gas has left the UK over-exposed to global price shocks, fiscal risk and hostile state activity. |
17 Mar 26 |
Denmark: RWE reports first generation at Thor offshore wind farm One milestone follows another at the 1.1-gigawatt Thor offshore wind farm off Denmark’s west coast near Jutland: Yesterday, shortly after the installation of the first turbine, Thor delivered electricity into the Danish grid for the first time. Once fully operational in 2027, Thor will be able to power the equivalent of more than one million Danish homes. |
17 Mar 26 |
Australia: European Energy inaugurates Lancaster solar park in Australia European Energy has inaugurated the 108 MW Lancaster Solar Farm in the state of Victoria in Australia, further expanding the company’s renewable energy portfolio in the country. The solar park comprises approximately 170,000 solar panels and will supply renewable electricity to Apple under a long-term power purchase agreement. |
17 Mar 26 |
Germany: Nordex Group receives new orders for 137 MW for repowering projects on the island of Fehmarn in Germany The Nordex Group has received two new orders for repowering projects on the Baltic Sea island of Fehmarn in Germany. For the two wind farms Fehmarn-Mitte I and Fehmarn-Mitte II, Nordex will supply and install 24 wind turbines of the N163/5.X type. The total capacity of the orders from the company Fehmarn-Mitte GmbH amounts to 136.8 MW. |
