Baltic East is an ORLEN Group offshore wind farm development located on area 46.E.1 in the Polish Baltic Sea, approximately 22.5 km north of the coast near Choczewo on the Słupsk Bank. Planned at roughly 1 GW of installed capacity and covering about 110–112 km², the project sits immediately adjac...
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ORLEN Neptun appointed a Polish-led consortium of Ramboll (Polska), Projmors ASE Group and Enprom to deliver FEED and preliminary design works for the 900 MW Baltic East offshore wind farm, including technical documentation for building-permit applications. Scope split within the consortium: Ramboll Polska oversees overall project management, FEED design of the offshore components and detailed design of the wind turbine foundations; Projmors ASE Group leads the building-design effort and secures building permits for the offshore part; Enprom manages design and permitting of the onshore infrastructure (onshore export cable and onshore substation). The FEED package supports advancement of the project toward Final Investment Decision (planned 2029–2030) and the URE 7-year first-power deadline of 17 December 2032 under the AMFW/1/2025 CfD award. Reported by offshoreWIND.biz on 7 April 2026; the consortium selection was announced earlier in 2026.
Baltic East secured a 25-year two-way contract for difference (CfD) at PLN 476.88/MWh in Poland's first competitive offshore wind auction (AMFW/1/2025), held by URE on 17 December 2025. The bid was the LOWEST of the three winning bids; the highest of the winning bids reached PLN 492.32/MWh (winners: Baltic East 900 MW, Baltica 9 975 MW, Bałtyk I 1,560 MW — 3.435 GW awarded against a 4 GW cap). The strike price is below the maximum set by the Regulation of the Minister of Climate and Environment of 9 January 2025. Under the CfD, Baltic East must generate first power within 7 years (by 17 December 2032), at which point the 25-year support period commences. The CfD counterparty is ZARE (Zarządca Rozliczeń S.A.). Baltic East was additionally granted preferential debt financing under Poland's National Recovery Plan (KPO) for construction works in marine areas.
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Baltic East Offshore Wind Farm, Area 46.E.1, ORLEN Neptun Baltic East, 46.E.1
On 17 December 2025, the AMFW/1/2025 offshore-wind auction was held electronically via the URE Online Auction Platform between 08:00 and 18:00 CET, closing Poland's first Phase II competitive procedure under the Offshore Wind Promotion Act 2020. Four generators participated, of which three were selected as winners: Baltic East (ORLEN Neptun VIII, 900 MW), Baltica 9 (PGE, 975 MW) and Bałtyk I (Polenergia/Equinor, 1,560 MW) — a combined 3.435 GW against the 4 GW cap. The 'forced competition' rule applied: bids jointly may not exceed 90% of the total installed capacity covered by all bids. Auction participants undertook to feed first power to the grid within 7 years of the auction-close date.
On 18 November 2025, ORLEN’s Baltic East offshore wind project secured its environmental decision (Decyzja o środowiskowych uwarunkowaniach, DŚU) from the Regional Directorate for Environmental Protection in Gdańsk (RDOŚ Gdańsk). The decision confirms that the planned ~1 GW Baltic East wind farm, to be built on a 110 km² site about 22.5 km off the Polish Baltic coast near Choczewo, can proceed under defined environmental conditions. ORLEN highlights this as a key milestone enabling Baltic East to participate in Poland’s first competitive offshore wind auction, planned for December, and notes that extensive environmental studies by multiple Polish firms demonstrated that the project’s technical and organisational solutions would effectively limit impacts on birds and the marine environment. The DŚU covers turbines, foundations, offshore electrical stations and internal array cables; connection infrastructure is being assessed under a separate procedure.
By October 2025, the Baltic East offshore wind farm had secured a permit for laying and maintaining submarine cables in Polish internal waters and the territorial sea (Pozwolenie na układanie i utrzymywanie kabli, PUUK). A linked article dated 10 October 2025 reports that Baltic East has obtained this PUUK, while the main Baltic East feature notes that the project already holds this cable permit alongside its siting decision (PSZW) and preliminary transmission grid connection terms. The PUUK covers the export and/or inter-array cable sections located within internal waters and the territorial sea and is a prerequisite for constructing and operating the project’s cable infrastructure along the route to shore.
On 2 July 2025, the President of the Energy Regulatory Office (URE) published the formal Announcement of auction AMFW/1/2025 — the first competitive offshore-wind auction under Phase II of Poland's offshore wind support regime (Offshore Wind Promotion Act 2020, Dz.U. 2025 poz. 498). The auction was scheduled for 17 December 2025, conducted electronically via the URE Online Auction Platform (Internetowa Platforma Aukcyjna) between 08:00 and 18:00 CET, offering up to 4 GW of installed capacity for the right to cover the negative balance. The maximum bid price was capped per the Regulation of the Minister of Climate and Environment of 9 January 2025 (Dz.U. 2025 poz. 41). Baltic East (ORLEN Neptun VIII Sp. z o.o.) was registered to participate. Underlying auction regulations had been published by URE on 27 May 2025.
In October 2023 the Polish Ministry of Infrastructure issued seabed licences for five new offshore wind areas in the Baltic Sea, including area 46.E.1 on which the Baltic East project is based. This decision corresponds to the PSZW siting permit, granting ORLEN Neptun long‑term rights to construct and operate artificial islands and offshore wind structures in area 46.E.1. The licence award is the fundamental seabed-rights instrument for Baltic East and enables the project to proceed with environmental surveys, design, consenting and preparation for participation in Poland’s first competitive offshore wind auction.
The Baltic East offshore wind project is located in Polish maritime area 46.E.1, one of the offshore wind zones designated in the national maritime spatial plan (PZP POM) adopted by the Council of Ministers in June 2021. That plan allocated specific E‑zones for offshore renewable energy development in the Polish part of the Baltic Sea, including the 46.E.1 area off Choczewo where Baltic East is being developed. This zoning decision established the regulatory basis for using the 46.E.1 area for large‑scale offshore wind and underpins ORLEN Neptun’s subsequent seabed permit and project development activities in this location.
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