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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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• Infrastructure09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  LKAB Relocates Kiruna's Historic Lundbohm Villa in Three Sections

  Kiruna, SwedenLKAB

  

  Starts 09/26/2017CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE9.0 years agoLKAB’s^[2] own press release states Hjalmar Lundbohmsgården, the sixth of eight heritage buildings, was moved on Tuesday 26 September 2017.

  To clear ground for LKAB's expanding Kiruna iron ore mine, contractor PEAB moved the century-old Hjalmar Lundbohmsgården villa across town - dismantled into three sections, because its later extensions made moving it whole impractical.

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• Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk

  New Spitallamm Dam Replaces Century-Old Cracked Wall

  Kraftwerke OberhasliSpitallamm Dam, Grimsel Pass, Bern, Switzerland

  Starts 12/31/2025ESTIMATED65% CONFIDENCE266 days agoSources place the new dam's completion in 2025 - some reporting it already in operation by autumn 2025 - with the powerplant's full restart following in 2026; no single confirmed completion date was found.^[1]

  Swiss utility KWO finished building a new 113-metre arch dam directly in front of its cracked 1932 predecessor high in the Grimsel Pass.

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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

  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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• Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk

  Chornobyl NPP Accepts Novarka's New Safe Confinement Into Operation

  NovarkaChernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine

  Starts 11/08/2017CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE8.9 years agoUkraine's Chornobyl NPP states it accepted the New Safe Confinement's Enclosing Perimeter into operation on 8 November 2017 (chnpp.gov.ua^[2]).

  Ukraine's Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant formally accepted the New Safe Confinement's Enclosing Perimeter from builder Novarka, completing the giant arch meant to contain the ruined Reactor 4 for a century. The 36,000-tonne steel structure, the largest movable land-based structure ever built, had been skidded into place over the old sarcophagus in November 2016.

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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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• Marine09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Edda Freya Launches as a Hybrid-Powered Subsea Construction Vessel

  Kleven Verft, Klubbenesvegen 39, 6065 Ulsteinvik, NorwayØstensjø Rederi

  

  Starts 08/15/2015CONFIRMED82% CONFIDENCE11.1 years agoOffshore Energy's^[3] photo report documented the Edda Freya construction vessel launching (hitting the water) at Kleven's yard on August 15, 2015.

  Shipbuilder Kleven Verft floated out the Edda Freya at its Ulsteinvik yard, a hybrid-powered subsea construction vessel later chartered to DeepOcean for pipeline and platform repair work like the mission the documentary follows.

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• Automotive09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Pierce Manufacturing Launches Phase I of Its High Flow Production Line

  2600 American Drive, Appleton, WI, USAPierce Manufacturing

  

  Starts 03/25/2026CONFIRMED77% CONFIDENCE182 days agoFire Engineering's^[3] industry-news report dates Pierce Manufacturing's Phase I High Flow production line launch at its Appleton campus to March 25, 2026.

  Pierce Manufacturing brought Phase I of its redesigned High Flow custom chassis production line online at its Appleton, Wisconsin campus, cutting chassis lead times by more than three months. The line is part of a $150 million-plus modernization of Pierce's Wisconsin, Florida, and Tennessee plants.

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• Science09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Hyper-Kamiokande Neutrino Observatory Cavern Completed

  Kamioka, Hida, Gifu Prefecture, Japan

  

  Starts 07/31/2025CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCE1.1 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "the University of Tokyo completed excavation of the colossal cavern that will house the main detector volume of Hyper-Kamiokande" on July 31, 2025.

  Crews finished excavating the huge cavern in a Japanese mountain that will house the Hyper-Kamiokande neutrino observatory, a step toward the detector's planned start of observations.

  $600M

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• Energy09/11/2026@ThePinGang

  Sizewell C Begins Generating

  Suffolk, EnglandEDF

  

  Starts 06/01/2035ESTIMATED61% CONFIDENCEin 8.7 yearsGiven as a target, not a fixed date, per the pin description: "…C intended to power six million homes. Estimated date.…"

  Britain's second new-build nuclear station, a near-copy of Hinkley Point C intended to power six million homes. Estimated date.

  £38B

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• Science09/21/2026@ScienceDesk

  ITER Starts Research Operations

  ITER OrganizationITER, Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France

  Starts 12/31/2034ESTIMATED68% CONFIDENCEin 8.3 yearsITER's^[1] updated 2024 baseline gives 2034 for the start of research activities. Only the year is stated, so the pin takes its last day.

  ITER's 2024 baseline puts the start of research operations in 2034, opening a period of hydrogen and deuterium plasma experiments at the fusion reactor in southern France.

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