{ "version": "energy-projects-v1", "edition": "2026-11-13", "checked_at": "2026-11-13T14:39:00Z", "mode": "source-attributed-reference", "native_review": "not-performed", "sources": [ { "id": "iter-assembly", "publisher": "ITER Organization", "url": "https://www.iter.org/two-thirds-iter-tokamak-core-now-place", "published": "2026-07-29", "quote": "which took 30 hours and concluded on 28 July.", "role": "Project participant", "checked_at": "2026-11-13T14:39:00Z", "date_note": "Publisher date shown on the source page.", "excerpt_sha256": "af6884e950ab1c73608cef14fc049ace94447e1259377f17b9db18509dc166a1" }, { "id": "iter-delivery", "publisher": "ITER Organization", "url": "https://www.iter.org/node/20687/remarkable-chapter-draws-close", "published": "2026-10-05", "quote": "Standing in front of the massive component, delivered on Friday 2 October and still in its protective wrapping", "role": "Project participant", "checked_at": "2026-11-13T14:39:00Z", "date_note": "Publisher date shown on the source page.", "excerpt_sha256": "ae917db43e6d64e2479d8625ecea0b7d065fa989418044d3a8979a5c5ab3b226" }, { "id": "nif", "publisher": "Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory", "url": "https://lmf.llnl.gov/science/achieving-fusion-ignition", "published": null, "quote": "June 20, 2026: Ignition was achieved at NIF for an 11th time.", "role": "Research facility", "checked_at": "2026-11-13T14:39:00Z", "date_note": "Undated living overview. Individual experiment dates are stated; inspection is not publication.", "excerpt_sha256": "1dc935058da3d82f093a74b50b337a86c5b39d0bfc72f923bf7c60e3bf3d6489" }, { "id": "vogtle", "publisher": "Georgia Power", "url": "https://www.georgiapower.com/news-hub/press-releases/vogtle-unit-4-enters-commercial-operation.html", "published": "2024-04-29", "quote": "Vogtle Unit 3 entered commercial operation on July 31, 2023.", "role": "Project co-owner", "checked_at": "2026-11-13T14:39:00Z", "date_note": "Publisher date shown on the source page.", "excerpt_sha256": "bb4a243b41836e66526a5631e9c281dbb99838b3849cd09571152fa951ad1845" }, { "id": "flamanville-grid", "publisher": "EDF", "url": "https://www.edf.fr/en/the-edf-group/dedicated-sections/journalists/all-press-releases/update-on-the-flamanville-epr-the-reactor-produces-its-first-electrons-on-the-national-electricity-grid", "published": "2024-12-21", "quote": "Following this initial coupling, in accordance with the startup operations, the phases of testing and of connection and disconnection to the grid", "role": "Operator", "checked_at": "2026-11-13T14:39:00Z", "date_note": "Publisher date shown on the source page.", "excerpt_sha256": "e0cb3f078e398b3740e1b31a085466cf7e4f07469819fa5e04cf03a3d6db9b0c" }, { "id": "flamanville-power", "publisher": "EDF", "url": "https://www.edf.fr/en/the-edf-group/dedicated-sections/journalists/all-press-releases/update-on-the-flamanville-epr-the-reactor-has-reached-100-of-nuclear-thermal-power", "published": "2025-12-14", "quote": "the Flamanville 3 reactor reached 100% nuclear thermal power at 11:37am and generated 1,669MW of gross electrical power", "role": "Operator", "checked_at": "2026-11-13T14:39:00Z", "date_note": "Publisher date shown on the source page.", "excerpt_sha256": "16d2410fa78f81de03fdeb9e68257ab950d2bbd71b05c18601f4073938ceee67" }, { "id": "flamanville-stop", "publisher": "EDF", "url": "https://www.edf.fr/actualite-de-l-unite-de-production-ndeg3-2", "published": "2026-10-01", "quote": "Flamanville 3 a été déconnectée du réseau électrique le 26 septembre 2026", "role": "Operator", "checked_at": "2026-11-13T14:39:00Z", "date_note": "French source; summaries translated into English. Publication date is 1 October; disconnection was 26 September.", "excerpt_sha256": "c825466f45235ccf98ddbecff0f9e4c508eb9f3e05f87d3cb907e37e1b81d037" }, { "id": "edsan", "publisher": "Terra-Gen", "url": "https://terra-gen.com/terragen_project/edwards-sanborn-1a/", "published": null, "quote": "The facility was commissioned in phases, reaching full commercial operations in 2022.", "role": "Developer", "checked_at": "2026-11-13T14:39:00Z", "date_note": "Undated project page. Only the operation year is supplied; no day is inferred.", "excerpt_sha256": "ea504d65dac6f569bae6b0f98afbe797cdb4eba4e9ca43ec3e4cc0ac0749ed15" }, { "id": "dalian", "publisher": "Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS", "url": "https://english.dicp.cas.cn/nc/202210/t20221009_321157.html", "published": "2022-10-09", "quote": "The first phase of the on-grid power station project is 100 MW/400 MWh.", "role": "Technology contributor", "checked_at": "2026-11-13T14:39:00Z", "date_note": "Publisher date shown on the source page.", "excerpt_sha256": "1ba425d81ea17cd249af79df290a4922412618de1b1432bc0da07fae31b18008" }, { "id": "nordlink", "publisher": "Statnett", "url": "https://www.statnett.no/en/about-statnett/news-and-press-releases/news-archive-2021/nordlink-in-operation2/", "published": "2021-05-11", "quote": "The takeover from the suppliers took place 31.03.2021", "role": "Project partner", "checked_at": "2026-11-13T14:39:00Z", "date_note": "English page shows 5/11/2021 (11 May). Handover date is explicitly 31 March; the ceremony is a different event.", "excerpt_sha256": "7605227ec5d4bde251cd71f53d38ac1eaa261bb27b09d8665eb15fef91354776" }, { "id": "suedlink-permit", "publisher": "Bundesnetzagentur", "url": "https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/EN/2025/20251010_SL.html", "published": "2025-10-10", "quote": "The Bundesnetzagentur has today completed the planning approval procedure for the last section of the SuedLink power line.", "role": "Regulator", "checked_at": "2026-11-13T14:39:00Z", "date_note": "Publisher date shown on the source page.", "excerpt_sha256": "a73f2bf1d29b2d7f4cae53f7307ede49e5a1970db3f2592c6106f57defa9c06b" }, { "id": "suedlink-update", "publisher": "TransnetBW", "url": "https://www.transnetbw.de/de/newsroom/news/bundesweit-laufen-auf-allen-suedlink-baustellen-die-arbeiten-weiterhin-mit-hochdruck", "published": "2026-09-29", "quote": "an der Inbetriebnahme Ende 2028 wird weiterhin festgehalten", "role": "Transmission system operator", "checked_at": "2026-11-13T14:39:00Z", "date_note": "German source; English summary. Publication dates a status statement, not the start of construction or the geological discovery.", "excerpt_sha256": "684d29dab9f7916b16b98831c6e5612fd5f7878cd1508eb47833d2be0a8b2b74" }, { "id": "dogger", "publisher": "Dogger Bank Wind Farm", "url": "https://doggerbank.com/construction/dogger-bank-wind-farm-signs-cadeler-contract-for-second-turbine-installation-vessel/", "published": "2026-11-04", "quote": "Wind Apex, is expected to join the Dogger Bank C turbine installation campaign in Q3 2027", "role": "Project developer", "checked_at": "2026-11-13T14:39:00Z", "date_note": "Publisher date shown on the source page.", "excerpt_sha256": "2c4ba44879448d7db609b319b39d3125967b12ee6f1b725728e2c4a96e3409de" }, { "id": "dhafra", "publisher": "Masdar", "url": "https://masdar.ae/en/news/newsroom/worlds-largest--single-site-solar-power-plant-inaugurated", "published": "2023-11-16", "quote": "The plant will supply power to the procurer EWEC", "role": "Project partner", "checked_at": "2026-11-13T14:39:00Z", "date_note": "Publisher date shown on the source page.", "excerpt_sha256": "1b4502cb353e34a81032763a9fac756ed40870e81c64ddfc0ad05c8062585417" } ], "projects": [ { "id": "dogger-bank-c", "name": "Dogger Bank C", "branch": "renewables", "location": "North Sea · United Kingdom", "kind": "Offshore wind · phase C", "scope": "The third 1.2 GW phase; evidence for phases A or B is not transferred to C.", "actors": [ { "name": "SSE", "role": "Development and construction lead", "source": "dogger" }, { "name": "Equinor", "role": "Joint-venture partner; intended operator on completion", "source": "dogger" }, { "name": "Vårgrønn", "role": "Joint-venture partner", "source": "dogger" }, { "name": "Cadeler", "role": "Contracted installation-vessel provider", "source": "dogger" } ], "events": [ { "id": "dogger-contract", "date": "2026-11-04", "precision": "day", "kind": "reported", "stage": "construction", "title": "Second installation vessel contracted", "summary": "The developer announced a Cadeler contract for Wind Apex to support turbine installation.", "source": "dogger", "date_note": "The release says the contract was signed today." }, { "id": "dogger-vessel", "date": "2027-Q3", "precision": "quarter", "kind": "target", "stage": "construction", "title": "Wind Apex campaign entry", "summary": "The developer expects the vessel to join installation in Q3 2027.", "source": "dogger", "date_note": "Quarter-level target stated on 4 November 2026; not a delivery or commissioning date." } ], "importance": "Installation-vessel availability is a practical dependency between planned offshore capacity and completed turbines.", "limits": "A signed vessel contract does not establish installed turbines, commissioned capacity or electricity delivered. All entries share the developer’s account.", "watch": "Vessel delivery, actual deployment, turbine installation and phase-C commissioning evidence.", "benefit": "Additional electricity supply could serve users if installation, grid connection and sustained operation follow; delivered generation is the evidence to watch." }, { "id": "iter", "name": "ITER tokamak", "branch": "nuclear_fusion", "location": "Saint-Paul-lez-Durance · France", "kind": "Experimental fusion installation", "scope": "Core-component delivery and assembly; not a commercial electricity plant.", "actors": [ { "name": "ITER Organization", "role": "Machine integration and assembly", "source": "iter-assembly" }, { "name": "Fusion for Energy", "role": "European vacuum-vessel procurement", "source": "iter-delivery" }, { "name": "AMW consortium", "role": "European manufacturing: Ansaldo Nucleare, Westinghouse, Walter Tosto", "source": "iter-delivery" }, { "name": "Korean Domestic Agency", "role": "Four vacuum-vessel sectors; manufacturing experience shared", "source": "iter-delivery" } ], "events": [ { "id": "iter-six", "date": "2026-07-28", "precision": "day", "kind": "reported", "stage": "construction", "title": "Six sector modules installed", "summary": "ITER reported the sixth of nine modules lowered into the tokamak pit.", "source": "iter-assembly", "date_note": "The lift concluded 28 July; publication followed on 29 July." }, { "id": "iter-nine", "date": "2026-10-02", "precision": "day", "kind": "reported", "stage": "construction", "title": "Final vacuum-vessel sector delivered", "summary": "ITER reported the ninth sector on site, completing delivery of the defined core components.", "source": "iter-delivery", "date_note": "Arrival was 2 October; publication and celebration were 5 October." }, { "id": "iter-target", "date": "2027", "precision": "year", "kind": "target", "stage": "construction", "title": "Final module installation target", "summary": "ITER’s July release targeted mid-2027 for positioning the final module.", "source": "iter-assembly", "date_note": "Source says mid-2027. Shown across the year because no precise day or quarter is supplied." } ], "importance": "Delivery removes one procurement dependency; assembly, joining and integrated testing remain separate tasks.", "limits": "Six of nine modules is a component count, not overall completion. The core definition excludes blanket and divertor; no electricity delivery is established.", "watch": "Remaining module installation, vessel joining, in-vessel systems and integrated testing.", "benefit": null }, { "id": "flamanville-3", "name": "Flamanville 3", "branch": "nuclear_fission", "location": "Flamanville · France", "kind": "EPR reactor · unit 3 only", "scope": "First grid connection, full-power testing and a subsequent maintenance shutdown.", "actors": [ { "name": "EDF", "role": "Operator and source of operating updates", "source": "flamanville-stop" } ], "events": [ { "id": "flamanville-grid", "date": "2024-12-21", "precision": "day", "kind": "reported", "stage": "commissioning", "title": "First grid connection", "summary": "EDF reported first connection to the national electricity grid, with further tests to follow.", "source": "flamanville-grid", "date_note": "Explicit event date; publication on the same day." }, { "id": "flamanville-power", "date": "2025-12-14", "precision": "day", "kind": "reported", "stage": "commissioning", "title": "Full-power test milestone", "summary": "EDF reported 100% nuclear thermal power and 1,669 MW gross electrical power during startup testing.", "source": "flamanville-power", "date_note": "Explicit day; this is a test point, not annual production." }, { "id": "flamanville-stop", "date": "2026-09-26", "precision": "day", "kind": "reported", "stage": "maintenance", "title": "Disconnected for first full inspection", "summary": "EDF reported disconnection for its first full inspection. The later update describes a boron-meter indication loss during shutdown: automatic safety injection and backup diesels were stopped by the teams, and manual analysis confirmed a compliant boron concentration.", "source": "flamanville-stop", "date_note": "Disconnection was 26 September; indication loss occurred overnight 30 September–1 October; published 1 October." } ], "importance": "First generation, full-power testing and ongoing availability answer different questions about useful supply.", "limits": "Gross electrical output includes internal use; it is not net delivery. The October account is operator-reported and does not establish a restart.", "watch": "Inspection results, follow-up on the instrument issue, reconnection and measured net generation.", "benefit": null }, { "id": "suedlink", "name": "SuedLink", "branch": "grids", "location": "Northern–southern Germany", "kind": "Two HVDC transmission lines", "scope": "Two planned 2 GW lines; regulatory approval and construction are distinct from energization.", "actors": [ { "name": "TenneT", "role": "Transmission-system project developer", "source": "suedlink-permit" }, { "name": "TransnetBW", "role": "Transmission-system project developer", "source": "suedlink-permit" }, { "name": "Bundesnetzagentur", "role": "Planning-approval authority", "source": "suedlink-permit" } ], "events": [ { "id": "suedlink-permit", "date": "2025-10-10", "precision": "day", "kind": "reported", "stage": "permitted", "title": "Last section’s approval announced", "summary": "The regulator reported completion of the final section’s planning-approval procedure.", "source": "suedlink-permit", "date_note": "The announcement says today; it separately schedules publication of the decision." }, { "id": "suedlink-geology", "date": "2026-09-29", "precision": "day", "kind": "statement", "stage": "construction", "title": "Local redesign; target retained", "summary": "TransnetBW reported geological findings requiring redesign along a three-kilometre mine section while retaining its end-2028 commissioning target.", "source": "suedlink-update", "date_note": "Status statement dated by publication; no exact discovery day is established." }, { "id": "suedlink-target", "date": "2028", "precision": "year", "kind": "target", "stage": "operation", "title": "End-2028 commissioning target", "summary": "TransnetBW reaffirmed planned commissioning at the end of 2028.", "source": "suedlink-update", "date_note": "Year-level display of an end-of-year target; no exact commissioning date supplied." } ], "importance": "Transmission can connect generation with distant demand, but approval alone delivers no power.", "limits": "Regulator evidence supports approval; the operator supplies the construction and target account. These are different claims, not independent confirmation of completion.", "watch": "Resolution of the mine-section redesign, cable installation, commissioning tests and actual energization.", "benefit": "Electricity exchange could become more flexible after completed construction and energization; watch delivered flows and congestion before claiming consumer savings." }, { "id": "nif", "name": "National Ignition Facility", "branch": "nuclear_fusion", "location": "Livermore · United States", "kind": "Laser-driven fusion research", "scope": "Selected target-level fusion experiments; not continuous power generation.", "actors": [ { "name": "Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory", "role": "Research facility and experiment reporting", "source": "nif" } ], "events": [ { "id": "nif-ignition", "date": "2022-12-05", "precision": "day", "kind": "reported", "stage": "research", "title": "First ignition experiment", "summary": "LLNL reports 3.15 MJ fusion yield from 2.05 MJ of laser energy delivered to the target.", "source": "nif", "date_note": "Experiment day stated in an undated living overview." }, { "id": "nif-record", "date": "2025-04-07", "precision": "day", "kind": "reported", "stage": "research", "title": "8.6 MJ fusion yield", "summary": "LLNL reports 8.6 ± 0.45 MJ yield and 2.08 MJ laser energy on target; target gain 4.13.", "source": "nif", "date_note": "Experiment day; publication date of the overview is unresolved." }, { "id": "nif-repeat", "date": "2026-06-20", "precision": "day", "kind": "reported", "stage": "research", "title": "Ignition repeated", "summary": "LLNL reports 7.9 ± 0.4 MJ yield and approximately 3.8 target gain in its eleventh ignition experiment.", "source": "nif", "date_note": "Experiment day; this later shot is not a higher-yield record." } ], "importance": "Repeated experiments help investigate reproducibility of ignition under stated experimental conditions.", "limits": "Target gain excludes the facility’s electricity consumption. These selected shots do not measure repetition rate, net electricity or commercial readiness.", "watch": "Whole-system energy accounting, repetition, target manufacture and independently assessed experimental conditions.", "benefit": null }, { "id": "vogtle-3-4", "name": "Vogtle units 3 & 4", "branch": "nuclear_fission", "location": "Georgia · United States", "kind": "Two reactor units", "scope": "Commercial-operation milestones for units 3 and 4; no output totals from units 1 and 2 are assigned to this pair.", "actors": [ { "name": "Georgia Power", "role": "Project co-owner and reporting source", "source": "vogtle" }, { "name": "Southern Nuclear", "role": "Plant operator", "source": "vogtle" }, { "name": "Oglethorpe Power, MEAG Power & Dalton Utilities", "role": "Other named co-owners", "source": "vogtle" } ], "events": [ { "id": "vogtle-3", "date": "2023-07-31", "precision": "day", "kind": "reported", "stage": "operation", "title": "Unit 3 commercial operation", "summary": "Georgia Power’s later release records Unit 3 entering commercial operation.", "source": "vogtle", "date_note": "Historical event day explicitly stated in the 29 April 2024 release." }, { "id": "vogtle-4", "date": "2024-04-29", "precision": "day", "kind": "reported", "stage": "operation", "title": "Unit 4 commercial operation", "summary": "Georgia Power announced Unit 4 serving customers, completing the two-unit expansion.", "source": "vogtle", "date_note": "Event and publication day coincide." } ], "importance": "Commercial service is a distinct milestone beyond construction and startup tests.", "limits": "A historical operating milestone does not establish present availability, lifetime output, affordability or the source’s forecast service life.", "watch": "Unit-specific net generation, availability, outage history and customer costs.", "benefit": null }, { "id": "al-dhafra", "name": "Al Dhafra Solar PV", "branch": "renewables", "location": "Abu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates", "kind": "Utility-scale solar project", "scope": "The inaugurated Al Dhafra project, excluding other Abu Dhabi solar plants.", "actors": [ { "name": "Masdar, TAQA, EDF Renewables & JinkoPower", "role": "Project partners named in the announcement", "source": "dhafra" }, { "name": "EWEC", "role": "Power procurer", "source": "dhafra" } ], "events": [ { "id": "dhafra-open", "date": "2023-11-16", "precision": "day", "kind": "reported", "stage": "operation", "title": "Inauguration; supply already reported", "summary": "Masdar announced the inauguration of the 2 GW project and said it was already supplying the national grid.", "source": "dhafra", "date_note": "Inauguration day; first electricity delivery is not dated by this event." } ], "importance": "A connected solar installation turns equipment capacity into a potential source of grid electricity.", "limits": "The release’s 2 GW description does not specify AC/DC basis here. Household and emissions equivalents are promotional estimates and are not reproduced as outcomes.", "watch": "Metered generation, curtailment and grid delivery; comparable capacity definitions before comparisons.", "benefit": null }, { "id": "dalian-phase-1", "name": "Dalian flow battery · phase 1", "branch": "storage", "location": "Dalian · China", "kind": "Vanadium-flow storage demonstration", "scope": "The 100 MW / 400 MWh first phase; the eventual 200 MW / 800 MWh project is a separate planned scope.", "actors": [ { "name": "DICP, Chinese Academy of Sciences", "role": "Technology and research support", "source": "dalian" }, { "name": "Rongke Power", "role": "System construction and integration", "source": "dalian" } ], "events": [ { "id": "dalian-grid", "date": "2022-09-29", "precision": "day", "kind": "reported", "stage": "commissioning", "title": "First-phase grid connection", "summary": "DICP reported connection to the grid, with operation still planned for mid-October in that release.", "source": "dalian", "date_note": "Event day stated as 29 September in the 9 October 2022 release." } ], "importance": "Grid connection enables commissioning; dispatch performance still needs operating evidence.", "limits": "100 MW is power; 400 MWh is stored energy. Neither establishes usable duration or efficiency. The scheduled start is not treated as completed.", "watch": "A matched first-phase operating record, usable capacity, efficiency and dispatch data; resolve identity before attaching later Dalian reports.", "benefit": null }, { "id": "edsan-1a", "name": "Edwards Sanborn 1A", "branch": "storage", "location": "Kern County, California · United States", "kind": "Solar + battery storage · phase 1A", "scope": "Only EdSan 1A: the developer lists 397 MW solar and 548 MW / 1,501 MWh storage.", "actors": [ { "name": "Terra-Gen", "role": "Project developer and portfolio source", "source": "edsan" } ], "events": [ { "id": "edsan-operation", "date": "2022", "precision": "year", "kind": "reported", "stage": "operation", "title": "Full commercial operation reported", "summary": "Terra-Gen’s project page places full commercial operation in 2022 after phased commissioning.", "source": "edsan", "date_note": "Only a year is stated. The band covers the year; it does not imply continuous operation from 1 January." } ], "importance": "Combining generation and storage can shift the timing of electricity delivered.", "limits": "This phase is not the complete Edwards & Sanborn complex. Nameplate storage energy is not a measured usable-energy or round-trip-efficiency result.", "watch": "Phase-specific dispatch, available storage energy, degradation and delivery records.", "benefit": null }, { "id": "nordlink", "name": "NordLink", "branch": "grids", "location": "Norway ↔ Germany", "kind": "Cross-border HVDC interconnector", "scope": "The Sirdal–Wilster connection, separate from NorNed and North Sea Link.", "actors": [ { "name": "Statnett & TenneT", "role": "Grid-system project partners", "source": "nordlink" }, { "name": "KfW", "role": "Investment partner", "source": "nordlink" }, { "name": "Hitachi ABB Power Grids", "role": "HVDC converter technology; source-era name", "source": "nordlink" }, { "name": "Nexans & NKT", "role": "Cable suppliers", "source": "nordlink" } ], "events": [ { "id": "nordlink-operation", "date": "2021-03-31", "precision": "day", "kind": "reported", "stage": "operation", "title": "Commercial handover after trials", "summary": "Statnett reported takeover from suppliers and entry into ordinary commercial operation.", "source": "nordlink", "date_note": "Handover day is explicit; publication and the later opening ceremony are separate." } ], "importance": "An interconnector allows electricity exchange between systems with different supply patterns.", "limits": "The reported up-to-1,400 MW rating is not continuous delivered power. This historical source does not establish current availability or consumer savings.", "watch": "Available transfer capacity, actual flows, outages and measured congestion effects.", "benefit": null } ] }