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• Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk

  DanTysk Offshore Wind Farm Is Formally Opened in the North Sea

  VattenfallNorth Sea, ~70 km west of Sylt, Germany

  Starts 04/30/2015CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE11.4 years agoVattenfall's^[3] press release "DanTysk offshore wind farm formally opened" states the formal opening took place on 30 April 2015 in Hamburg.

  Vattenfall and Stadtwerke München formally opened the 288MW DanTysk wind farm, built with 80 turbines 70km west of Sylt using the jack-up vessel Pacific Osprey.

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• Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk

  Gorona del Viento Hydro-Wind Plant Opens on El Hierro

  Gorona del Viento El HierroEl Hierro, Canary Islands, Spain

  Starts 06/27/2014CONFIRMED80% CONFIDENCE12.2 years agoRenewable-energy trade coverage and the plant operator's own materials date the Gorona del Viento^[2] inauguration to 27 June 2014.

  El Hierro's Gorona del Viento plant, combining five wind turbines with a pumped-hydro reservoir, was inaugurated to make the smallest Canary Island the first in the world able to run entirely on renewable energy. Excess wind power pumps water uphill for use when the wind drops.

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• Energy09/11/2026@ThePinGang

  Dogger Bank Wind Farm Complete

  Dogger Bank, North Sea

  

  Starts 06/01/2027ESTIMATED69% CONFIDENCEin 251 daysGiven as a target, not a fixed date, per en.wikipedia.org^[1]: "…n installed. Dogger Bank^[2] B wind farm is expected to be complete in 2027. As of 27 July 2026, SSE rep…"

  At 3.6 GW, the largest offshore wind farm in the world, sited over a shallow sandbank 130 km off the Yorkshire coast. Estimated date.

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• Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk

  Sinovel Installs China's First 5-Megawatt Offshore Wind Turbine at Donghai Bridge

  Sinovel Wind GroupDonghai Bridge Offshore Wind Farm, East China Sea, Shanghai, China

  Starts 09/06/2011CONFIRMED72% CONFIDENCE15.0 years agoThe documentary's own dated footage places the SL5000's installation on the evening of September 6, 2011 beside the Donghai Bridge, and power-technology.com^[2]'s independent project profile of the Shanghai Dong Hai Bridge wind farm separately confirms a single Sinovel SL5000 5MW turbine as the farm's Phase IIB.

  Sinovel completed installation of the SL5000, China's first independently developed 5-megawatt offshore wind turbine, as a single demonstration unit at the Donghai Bridge wind farm near Shanghai. Two of China's largest crane vessels assembled the 150-meter-tall machine through the region's typhoon season.

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• Infrastructure09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Knaack-Krane Puts Its New 750-Tonne Liebherr Crane to Work at Stößen-Teuchern

  Stößen, Saxony-Anhalt, GermanyKnaack-Krane

  

  Starts 01/14/2014ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCE12.7 years agoKHL^[3] Group and Vertikal.net^[2] both reported the new Liebherr LTM 1750-9.1 joining the Knaack-Krane fleet in mid-January 2014, without giving the exact delivery day.

  Hamburg crane operator Knaack-Krane added a Liebherr LTM 1750-9.1, a 750-tonne all-terrain mobile crane, to its fleet and put it straight to work assembling wind turbines at the Stößen-Teuchern wind farm near Leipzig, its heaviest job yet.

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• Automotive09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Rheinmetall Delivers Its First HX81 Heavy-Duty Transporters to Austria's Bundesheer

  Wels, AustriaRheinmetall

  

  Starts 04/12/2021CONFIRMED75% CONFIDENCE5.4 years agoesut.de^[3] reported that Defence Minister Klaudia Tanner handed over the first three HX81 heavy-duty transporters to Panzerbataillon 14 in Wels on 12 April 2021.

  Austrian Defence Minister Klaudia Tanner handed over the first Rheinmetall HX81 8x8 tractor units, paired with 7-axle low-bed semi-trailers, to Panzerbataillon 14 at the Hessen barracks in Wels.

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• Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk

  EMEC Opens Its Billia Croo Wave Test Site Near Stromness

  European Marine Energy CentreStromness, Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom

  Starts 10/01/2003ESTIMATED70% CONFIDENCE23.0 years agoWikipedia's^[2] European Marine Energy Centre article says construction of the Billia Croo wave test facility was completed in October 2003, without a specific day.

  The European Marine Energy Centre completed its Billia Croo wave energy test site off Orkney, becoming the world’s first grid-connected facility for testing wave and tidal energy converters at sea.

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• Marine09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Meyer Werft Delivers the AIDAnova, the World's First LNG-Powered Cruise Ship

  Meyer Werft Shipyard, Industriegebiet Süd, Papenburg, GermanyMeyer Werft

  

  Starts 12/12/2018CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE7.8 years agoMeyer Werft’s^[2] own press release "AIDAnova handed over to AIDA Cruises" gives 12 December 2018 as the delivery date, corroborated by Seatrade Cruise^[3] News.

  Meyer Werft handed over the AIDAnova, built at its Papenburg shipyard as the world's first cruise ship able to run on liquefied natural gas, to AIDA Cruises. The 337-metre ship carries up to 6,600 passengers and was assembled from roughly 15 million individual parts.

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• Aerospace09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  DLR's HY4 Completes Its First Hydrogen Fuel Cell Flight

  Stuttgart Airport, Stuttgart, GermanyGerman Aerospace Center (DLR)

  

  Starts 09/29/2016CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE10.0 years agoDLR's^[3] own press release and the EAA both date HY4's first official flight to September 29, 2016.

  The German Aerospace Center's HY4, the world's first four-seat aircraft powered solely by a hydrogen fuel cell, made its first flight from Stuttgart Airport on September 29, 2016. The Future of Flight features it as a real prototype for zero-emission aviation.

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Sir William Arrol & Co.’s Forth Bridge Opens as the World’s Longest Cantilever Span

  Firth of Forth, South Queensferry, Scotland, United KingdomSir William Arrol & Co.

  

  Starts 03/04/1890CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE136.6 years agoNetwork Rail^[3] confirms the Prince of Wales formally opened the Forth Bridge on 4 March 1890.

  The Forth Bridge, a railway cantilever spanning the Firth of Forth in Scotland, was formally opened by the Prince of Wales on 4 March 1890, some months after the structure itself was finished in November 1889. Designed by John Fowler and Benjamin Baker and built by Sir William Arrol & Co., it was Britain's first major all-steel structure and the world's longest cantilever bridge span.

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• Energy08/16/2017@ThePinGang

  Wind and solar-powered Ecocapsule is your off-grid home of the future

  Nice Architects

  

  Starts 12/01/2017CONFIRMED72% CONFIDENCE8.8 years agoHappened as dated, per mashable.com^[1]: "…rice for the pods, but says it plans to begin taking pre-orders later this year with the first units…"

  At roughly 120 square feet, the Ecocapsule takes tiny living accommodations to the next level. The pod runs off wind and solar power and is equipped with a wind turbine and solar cells, which fuel the capsules' 9,744 watt-hour battery. It also has tools to collect and reuse rainwater and dew. Between its solar and wind power and water collection systems, Nice Architects say the Ecocapsule can support you for as much as a year at a time in off-the-grid locations.

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• Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk

  Gamesa Commissions the Calheta III Hydropower Plant on Madeira

  Empresa de Electricidade da MadeiraCalheta, Madeira, Portugal

  Starts 09/17/2020CONFIRMED80% CONFIDENCE6.0 years agoGamesa Electric's^[3] own commissioning announcement dates the Calheta III plant's commissioning to 17 September 2020.

  Gamesa Electric commissioned two 18.75MW generators at the Calheta III plant, more than tripling the hydroelectric capacity fed by Madeira's centuries-old levada channels. The upgrade backs the island's push to raise its share of renewable electricity.

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