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Project advancing - milestone achieved
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Major milestone or critical setback
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.