Tumut 3 Power Station Opens as Australia's First Pumped-Storage Plant

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• Energy09/11/2026@ThePinGang

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  Starts 12/01/2029ESTIMATED51% CONFIDENCEin 3.2 yearsGiven as a target, not a fixed date, per the pin description: "…ant to backstop Australia's renewables. Estimated date.…"

  A 2,200 MW underground pumped-storage scheme linking two existing reservoirs, meant to backstop Australia's renewables. Estimated date.

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• Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk

  Vogtle Unit 4 Enters Commercial Operation

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  Starts 04/29/2024CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE2.4 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "Vogtle Unit 4 enters commercial operation" on "April 29, 2024".

  Georgia's Plant Vogtle Unit 4 entered commercial operation in April 2024, completing the first new nuclear reactors built from scratch in the US in over three decades.

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• Automotive09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Porsche Starts Production of the Taycan in Zuffenhausen

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  Starts 09/09/2019CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE7.0 years agoPorsche's^[3] own newsroom release, 'Punctual start of production for the Porsche Taycan,' states production of first customer vehicles began September 9, 2019.

  Porsche began series production of its first all-electric sports car, the Taycan, at a newly built factory extension in Zuffenhausen, Germany.

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• Semiconductors09/23/2026@TechDesk

  TSMC's 1.6nm-Class A16 Process Enters Volume Production

  TSMC·…TSMC headquarters, 8 Lixing 6th Road, Baoshan, Hsinchu County 30082, Taiwan

  Starts 12/31/2027DELAYED12 months late67% CONFIDENCEin 1.3 yearsTSMC's^[2][5] Kevin Zhang told Tom's Hardware "A16 will be ready for production in 2026... we expect volume production to begin in 2027", and TSMC's roadmap slide lists A16 under 2027; with no quarter named, the year's last day stands in.

  A16, TSMC's first node with Super Power Rail backside power delivery, is expected to reach volume production in 2027, a year after the 2026 production TSMC planned when it unveiled the node.

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  National Gas Marks £350M Hydrogen-Ready Investment

  National GasPeterborough Gas Compressor Station, Glinton, Peterborough, United Kingdom

  Starts 06/30/2025CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE1.2 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "Former Industry Minister Sarah Jones visited Peterborough's Compressor Station in 2025 to mark a £350 million investment in National Gas's^[2] hydrogen-ready infrastructure."

  National Gas marked a £350M investment in hydrogen-ready compressor infrastructure shared across three sites, Peterborough among them, part of preparing Britain's gas transmission network for a lower-carbon future.

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• Energy09/11/2026@ThePinGang

  Hinkley Point C Reactor 1 Online

  Somerset, EnglandEDF

  

  Starts 06/01/2030ESTIMATED63% CONFIDENCEin 3.7 yearsGiven as a target, not a fixed date, per en.wikipedia.org^[1]: "…s. As of 2026, Unit 1 of the station is projected to come online in 2030, while the overall project…"

  Britain's first new nuclear plant in a generation, intended to supply roughly 7% of UK electricity. Estimated date, repeatedly revised.

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• Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk

  LNG Canada Ships First LNG From Kitimat Terminal

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  Starts 07/01/2025CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCE1.2 years agoThe first cargo, loaded aboard the GasLog Glasgow, left Kitimat for Asia on 1 July 2025 (Shell's^[2] 'First cargo leaves LNG Canada' release, with CBC^[3] and The Globe and Mail reporting the departure the same day). The previous date of 23 June 2025 was the announcement of first production, with cargo loading still ahead of it.

  Canada's first large-scale liquefied natural gas export terminal, built by a Shell-led joint venture in Kitimat, British Columbia, produced and shipped its first LNG cargo in 2025.

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• Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk

  Gorona del Viento Hydro-Wind Plant Opens on El Hierro

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  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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• Aerospace09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Gilmour Space Test-Fires Record Rocket Engine on the Gold Coast

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  Starts 01/11/2022CONFIRMED84% CONFIDENCE4.7 years agoGilmour Space's own announcement (via its X/Twitter post and media release) states the record 110kN, 75-second engine test took place on 11 January 2022.^[1]

  Gilmour Space Technologies test-fired the largest and most powerful rocket engine ever developed in Australia, a 75-second, 110-kilonewton hybrid-engine burn ahead of its Eris orbital rocket program.

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• Energy09/23/2026@EnergyDesk

  Base Electron's 1.2 GW Gas Plant for Applied Digital Goes Online

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  Starts 12/31/2030DELAYED2 years late76% CONFIDENCEin 4.3 yearsA target year, per bismarcktribune.com^[1]: Base Electron's Tyler Hammond said that if the permit is approved "construction would commence in the second quarter of 2027 and the plant would be operational in 2030"; a year alone is dated to its last day.

  The 1,200 MW gas-fired plant Babcock & Wilcox is building for Base Electron near Center, North Dakota, to power Applied Digital's AI data centres is now due to run in 2030, after B&W first promised power by the end of 2028.

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• Energy09/23/2026@EnergyDesk

  B&W Wins Engineering Study for Alberta Air-Storage and Hydrogen Hub

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  Starts 10/28/2025CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE330 days agoStated as done, per B&W's release "(AKRON, Ohio – October 28, 2025)": "announced today that it has been awarded a contract by Cache Power Corp. (Cache Power) to execute an engineering study"; no time of day was found.^[1]

  Cache Power hired Babcock & Wilcox to engineer its BrightLoop hydrogen technology, up to 60 tonnes a day with the CO2 captured, into the 640 MW Marguerite Lake compressed-air energy storage plant near La Corey, Alberta. An Alberta Innovates grant pays for part of the study.

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• Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Victorian Railways Completes the New Flinders Street Station Building

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  Starts 12/31/1909ESTIMATED63% CONFIDENCE116.7 years agoWikipedia^[2] dates the current building's completion to 1909 - "essentially finished by mid-1909" - with the Flinders Street verandah and the concourse roof finished only after the official opening in 1910. No source gives an exact day, so the date sits on the last day of 1909.

  Victorian Railways finished the current Flinders Street Station building in Melbourne, replacing earlier structures with the Federation Free Classical terminus still in use today. The building was essentially finished in 1909, with the official opening the following year.

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