Baltic East

The Baltic East offshore wind project secured revenue support after winning an offshore wind auction run by the President of the Polish Energy Regulatory Office (URE). ORLEN Group announced that Baltic East submitted a successful bid of 476.88 PLN/MWh, below the regulatory maximum, and as a result the project will benefit from a two-way contract for difference for up to 25 years, providing predictable revenues and stable operating conditions.

Alongside the auction win, Baltic East was granted preferential debt financing under Poland’s National Recovery Plan (KPO) to support construction works in marine areas. This capital support complements the CfD revenue scheme and is intended to help finance offshore construction for the project.

ORLEN reported that design and engineering work for the Baltic East offshore wind farm had begun, with teams preparing the technical documentation required to support forthcoming building permit applications for the project’s infrastructure.

By 18 November 2025, ORLEN’s Baltic East offshore wind project had secured a formal decision on preliminary grid connection conditions for the transmission system, confirming reserved grid capacity needed to export power from the planned ~1 GW wind farm. This grid connection decision, held alongside other key permits, allows the project to move forward towards auction participation and subsequent permitting and design work.

ORLEN’s Baltic East offshore wind project received an environmental decision from the Regional Directorate for Environmental Protection in Gdańsk (RDOŚ), approving the environmental conditions for developing the approximately 1 GW offshore wind farm about 22.5 km off the Polish coast. This EIA approval is described as a key milestone enabling the project to participate in Poland’s first offshore wind auction and to progress towards securing remaining permits, financing, and eventual grid connection by 2032.

The Baltic East project is reported as already holding a siting decision (PSZW), which formally designates and consents the offshore wind farm’s location on a roughly 110 km² site about 22.5 km off the Baltic Sea coast near Choczewo, adjacent to the Baltic Power project. This siting consent forms part of the project’s regulatory foundation alongside grid and cable permits as it advances toward construction and COD in 2032.

By 7 November 2025, ORLEN reported that preliminary seismic surveys at the Baltic East site, including a 2D multichannel seismic campaign performed by Geofizyka Toruń over more than 15 weeks, had been completed to support geological interpretation and project design.

By 7 November 2025, ORLEN announced completion of preliminary geotechnical surveys at the Baltic East offshore wind farm site, including more than 1,200 metres of drilling to depths of up to 80 metres below the seabed carried out by ORLEN Petrobaltic using the vessel Silur.

By 7 November 2025, MEWO had completed UXO surveys for Baltic East, assessing seabed cleanliness for hazardous objects at the geotechnical survey locations and identifying dozens of magnetic anomalies as part of ORLEN’s wider 15‑week seabed campaign.

ORLEN Neptun’s Baltic East offshore wind farm obtained a permit to lay and maintain power cables in Poland’s internal sea waters and territorial sea, securing the marine corridor for the project’s offshore transmission infrastructure. The decision protects the seabed area needed for export cables that will ultimately carry electricity from the Baltic East site to shore.

By October 2025, the Baltic East offshore wind project held a permit authorising the construction or use of artificial islands, structures and devices in its Baltic Sea licence area 46.E. This construction permit underpins the future installation and operation of offshore wind farm infrastructure such as turbine foundations and platforms within the project area of around 110 km².

Preliminary geophysical seabed investigations for Baltic East began in late June 2025, when Geofizyka Toruń started a 2D multichannel seismic survey as part of a broader 15‑week seabed campaign for ORLEN at the project site in the Polish Baltic Sea.

As part of a preliminary seabed survey campaign starting in late June 2025, ORLEN initiated geotechnical investigations for Baltic East, culminating in drilling works at the site to characterise subsurface ground conditions for design purposes.

During the preliminary seabed survey campaign that began in late June 2025, UXO surveys were initiated at the Baltic East site, with MEWO mobilised to search for potential unexploded ordnance along the planned geotechnical investigation areas.

In October 2023, Poland’s Ministry of Infrastructure issued a decision granting five new seabed licences for offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea, including the 46.E.1 area on which ORLEN Neptun’s Baltic East project is based, formally awarding seabed rights for the approximately 110–112 km² site.