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Equinor's 810 MW Empire Wind 1, the first offshore wind farm to connect to New York City's grid, began construction with the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal port build on 10 June 2024; first power is planned for late 2026 and full commissioning for 2027.

Ørsted broke ground on the 924 MW Sunrise Wind off Long Island on 17 July 2024 and now expects commercial operation in the second half of 2027, after first power later in 2026; the project was first billed as fully operational in 2026.

Ontario Power Generation began construction of the first of four 300 MW BWRX-300 small modular reactors at Darlington on 8 May 2025, a month after the CNSC licence to construct; the first unit is due in service by the end of 2030 at a cost of C$7.7 billion.

Masdar and EWEC broke ground on 23 October 2025 on a 5.2 GW solar plant paired with a 19 GWh battery system in Abu Dhabi, designed to deliver 1 GW of continuous power around the clock; financial close in July 2026 put its cost at $6.1 billion, with completion due in 2027.

TerraPower began full construction of Kemmerer Unit 1, a 345 MW sodium-cooled fast reactor with molten-salt storage in Wyoming, on 23 April 2026, seven weeks after the NRC voted to grant its construction permit; the roughly $4 billion plant is due to be complete in 2030.

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued the Tennessee Valley Authority a construction permit on 29 September 2026 for a 300 MWe BWRX-300 small modular reactor at its Clinch River site in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the first construction authorisation for a commercial SMR in the United States.

Consumers Energy's 1960s-built J.H. Campbell coal plant in West Olive, Michigan, was due to retire on 31 May 2025 but the Department of Energy has forced it to keep running under six emergency orders, the latest through 14 November 2026; a federal appeals court vacated the first order on 11 September.

Ørsted installed the 65th and final turbine at the 704 MW Revolution Wind off Rhode Island on about 18 September 2026 and now expects full commercial operation by the end of 2026, a year later than first planned; the farm has fed power to the New England grid since March.

Orlen and Northland Power's Baltic Power sent Poland's first offshore wind electricity to the grid on 10 July 2026 with 54 of its 76 Vestas turbines installed, and the owners expect full commissioning in the autumn and commercial operation in the second half of 2026.

Holtec's restart of the 800 MWe Palisades nuclear plant in Covert, Michigan, first promised for the end of 2025, is delayed indefinitely after a used fuel assembly tilted and stuck in the reactor vessel on 30 August 2026; with no new date given, this pin sits at the end of March 2027, the backstop for the plant's power contract.

Genex's 250 MW, 2,000 MWh Kidston pumped hydro project in north Queensland, the first built in Australia in more than 40 years, is now due for completion in July 2027, a year later than the first half of 2026 Genex targeted in May 2025, because the civil works took longer than expected.

Dominion Energy has pushed the installation of the 176th and final turbine at its 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind farm to the end of 2027, a year later than its 2026 target, as the budget rose to $11.65 billion; 31 turbines were up and power has flowed since March 2026.

Homer City Redevelopment is building a 4.5 GW natural gas power complex for data centers on the site of the former coal station in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, with seven GE Vernova turbines and a goal of first power by late 2027 or early 2028; the initial investment is above $10 billion.

NextEra aims to bring the 615 MW Duane Arnold Energy Center near Palo, Iowa, back online around the end of 2028 or early 2029 after the Department of Energy closed a loan of up to $1.9 billion on 8 September 2026; Google has contracted to buy its output for 25 years.