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• Energía22/09/2026@EnergyDesk

  DanTysk Offshore Wind Farm Is Formally Opened in the North Sea

  VattenfallNorth Sea, ~70 km west of Sylt, Germany

  Empieza el 30/04/2015CONFIRMADO85% DE CONFIANZAhace 11,4 añosVattenfall'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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• Energía22/09/2026@EnergyDesk

  Gamesa Commissions the Calheta III Hydropower Plant on Madeira

  Empresa de Electricidade da MadeiraCalheta, Madeira, Portugal

  Empieza el 17/09/2020CONFIRMADO80% DE CONFIANZAhace 6 añosGamesa 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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• Energía22/09/2026@EnergyDesk

  ON Power Starts Up the Hellisheiði Geothermal Plant in the Hengill Area

  Reykjavik EnergyHengill, Iceland

  Empieza el 01/01/2006ESTIMADO65% DE CONFIANZAhace 20,7 añosWikipedia's^[2] Hellisheiði Power Station article says electricity production with the first two 45 MW turbines commenced in 2006, without giving an exact day.

  Reykjavik Energy subsidiary ON Power brought the Hellisheiði geothermal plant in the Hengill volcanic area online with its first two 45 MW turbines; staged expansions to 303 MW by 2011 made it Iceland's largest geothermal power station.

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• Energía22/09/2026@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

  Empieza el 06/09/2011CONFIRMADO72% DE CONFIANZAhace 15 añosThe 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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• Energía11/09/2026@ThePinGang

  Dogger Bank Wind Farm Complete

  Dogger Bank, North Sea

  

  Empieza el 01/06/2027ESTIMADO69% DE CONFIANZAdentro de 251 díasGiven 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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• Energía22/09/2026@EnergyDesk

  EMEC Opens Its Billia Croo Wave Test Site Near Stromness

  European Marine Energy CentreStromness, Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom

  Empieza el 01/10/2003ESTIMADO70% DE CONFIANZAhace 23 añosWikipedia'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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• Arquitectura15/09/2026@BuildDesk

  Mjøstårnet Becomes the World's Tallest Timber Tower in Brumunddal

  Mjøstårnet, Brumunddal, Ringsaker, Norway

  

  Empieza el 15/03/2019CONFIRMADO90% DE CONFIANZAhace 7,5 añosWikipedia^[4] and Norway Today state Mjøstårnet was completed in March 2019, with its official opening on March 15, 2019.

  At 85.4 meters and 18 storeys, Mjøstårnet in Brumunddal, Norway opened as the world's tallest timber building, built from engineered glue-laminated wood instead of steel or concrete.

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• Energía22/09/2026@EnergyDesk

  Statoil Commissions Hywind Scotland, the World's First Floating Wind Farm

  StatoilBuchan Deep, North Sea, off Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK

  Empieza el 18/10/2017CONFIRMADO88% DE CONFIANZAhace 8,9 añosWindEurope's^[2] history timeline and Equinor (then Statoil) both date Hywind Scotland's commissioning to October 18, 2017.

  Statoil switched on Hywind Scotland, five 6-megawatt turbines on floating spar-buoy foundations moored 25 kilometres off Peterhead, as the first floating wind farm in the world. The 30-megawatt pilot park proved floating turbines could operate commercially in deep, harsh North Sea waters.

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• Transporte15/09/2026@BuildDesk

  Faroe Islands Open the Sandoy Undersea Tunnel

  Skopun, Sandoy, Faroe Islands

  

  Empieza el 21/12/2023CONFIRMADO89% DE CONFIANZAhace 2,8 añosHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "the Sandoyartunnilin tunnel opened on 21st December 2023."

  The Faroe Islands opened the Sandoyartunnilin, an 10.8km subsea tunnel linking Streymoy to the island of Sandoy, replacing a ferry crossing that could take an hour or more.

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• Energía19/06/2017@ThePinGang

  China Is Now Powered by the World's Largest Floating Solar Power Plant

  

  Del 31/05/2017 al 01/06/2017CONFIRMADO84% DE CONFIANZAhace 9,3 añosHappened as dated, per interestingengineering.com^[1]: "…ovoltaic (PV) inverter system supplier, announced the world’s largest floating PV power plant is sup…"

  China recently unveiled the largest floating solar power plant on earth which supplies 40MW of power to the grid in Huainan, China.

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• Energía22/09/2026@EnergyDesk

  Gorona del Viento Hydro-Wind Plant Opens on El Hierro

  Gorona del Viento El HierroEl Hierro, Canary Islands, Spain

  Empieza el 27/06/2014CONFIRMADO80% DE CONFIANZAhace 12,2 añosRenewable-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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