On 19 March 2026, Baltic Power confirmed that all 76 transition pieces connecting the installed monopile foundations to the turbine towers had been successfully installed at the offshore site approximately 23 km off the Polish coast, while turbine and export and inter-array cable installation campaigns continued.
On 23 February 2026, Baltic Power initiated its first recruitment campaign for the 30-year operational phase of Poland’s first offshore wind farm, seeking roles such as offshore operations coordinators and energy infrastructure operators. The recruitment is run from the project’s service base in Łeba, which has already been supporting installation work over the 130 km² offshore site, and is intended to staff the long-term operation of the 1.2 GW wind farm expected to supply around 3% of Poland’s electricity.
By 18 February 2026, installation of the offshore export cables for the Baltic Power offshore wind farm was underway, with work on the offshore inter-array cables scheduled to start shortly as the project progressed toward completion and grid connection.
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Baltic Power is Poland’s first large-scale offshore wind farm under construction in the Polish Exclusive Economic Zone of the Baltic Sea, located roughly 22–23 km off the coast near Łeba and Choczewo and occupying an area of about 130 km². Developed by a joint venture between PKN ORLEN (51%) and ...
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By 18 February 2026, Baltic Power had completed installation of all 78 monopile foundations for its 76 turbines and two offshore substations at the offshore site near Łeba and Choczewo, following an offshore construction campaign that involved more than 20 vessels and around 500 crew members and contractor staff.
On 29 October 2025, Baltic Power confirmed successful installation of both offshore substations (OSS West and OSS East). The main contractor was a consortium of CS Wind Offshore and Semco Maritime. Topsides manufactured at Polish shipyards in Gdansk and Gdynia by Grupa Przemyslowa Baltic, then equipped in Denmark. Installation by Scaldis SMC HLV Gulliver.
In July 2025, Baltic Power installed the first of its 76 Vestas 15 MW offshore wind turbines in the Polish sector of the Baltic Sea, following earlier monopile and transition piece works, thereby initiating the turbine installation campaign at the 1,140 MW wind farm.
Offshore construction at the Baltic Power offshore wind farm began in January 2025, when the installation vessel started driving the first monopile foundations into the seabed at the 130 km² site around 23 km off the Polish coast, initiating the marine installation campaign for turbines, substations and subsea cables.
Cable installation works at the Baltic Power offshore wind project started during 2025.
Baltic Power awarded a consortium of NKT GmbH & Co. KG, TELE-FONIKA Kable S.A. and DEME Offshore NL B.V. the contract to design, supply and install the subsea export cables, inter-array cables and onshore export cables, including horizontal directional drilling at the sea‑land transition.
Baltic Power contracted a consortium of CS WIND Offshore A/S (formerly Bladt Industries A/S) and Semco Maritime A/S to design, supply and install two offshore substations, with CS WIND responsible for the steel structures and Semco for the electrical equipment, under a contract for which the consortium members are jointly liable.
Baltic Power appointed a consortium of GE Power Sp. z o.o. and Enprom Sp. z o.o. for the onshore substation, with GE responsible for designing the electrical installation and delivering high‑voltage equipment and Enprom responsible for designing and constructing the onshore station.
Baltic Power concluded a contract with Vestas-Poland for the supply of wind turbines together with a 15‑year service and maintenance agreement, securing long‑term turbine O&M support for the offshore wind farm.
In early 2024, Baltic Power commenced its onshore construction phase, including building the onshore substation in the Choczewo municipality, associated cable infrastructure, and the operation and maintenance service base in Łeba, marking the start of onshore civil works for Poland’s first offshore wind farm.
In September 2023, the European Investment Bank (EIB), supported by the InvestEU programme, signed loan agreements providing approximately €610 million in financing for the Baltic Power offshore wind farm in Poland. The EIB facility forms a major part of the project’s long-term debt package, supporting development, construction and operation of the up to 1.2 GW offshore wind farm located about 23 km off the Polish Baltic coast.
The developers ORLEN and Northland Power placed a firm order with Vestas in September 2023 for 76 V236-15.0 MW offshore wind turbines for Baltic Power, and Vestas also agreed a 15‑year service and maintenance contract for the turbines.
In September 2023, the European Investment Bank signed loan agreements totalling approximately €609.5 million to finance the Baltic Power offshore wind farm in Poland, as shown by multiple loan signature entries on the EIB project page.
On 14 August 2023, NKT signed the final order with Baltic Power Sp. z.o.o. for the offshore export power cable system for the Baltic Power project. The contract, valued at more than EUR 120 million, covers the design and production of a high‑voltage AC power cable system comprising four circuits with a total length of around 130 km, to be manufactured at NKT’s factory in Cologne and delivered within a consortium arrangement, with commissioning of the full project expected by 2026.
On 27 June 2023, Baltic Power signed a cable supply agreement with a consortium including TELE-FONIKA Kable (TFK), JDR Cable Systems, NKT and DEME Offshore, covering the production and installation of about 340 km of land and subsea cables for the project. Under this contract, TFK will manufacture and install 230 kV land power cables forming the onshore export connection and cores for the inter-array cables, JDR will design and manufacture 66 kV inter-array cables, and DEME Offshore will handle transportation and installation of all subsea cables, with manufacture and delivery scheduled to be completed by the end of 2025.
By 6 June 2023, construction was already underway on the Baltic Power onshore substation in Poland, which will act as a hub for cable lines transmitting electricity from offshore substations located nearly 30 kilometres away to shore. This marks the start of onshore construction for the Baltic Power export transmission system, including the onshore interface for the export cables from the offshore wind farm.
NKT commenced large-scale production of the 230 kV offshore export power cables for the Baltic Power export system at its Cologne factory in June 2023, initiating a manufacturing campaign that is expected to run for about two years as part of its scope to deliver approximately 130 km of export cables and accessories for the project.
At the beginning of 2023, Baltic Power obtained the first required building permits for the onshore part of the project, covering onshore infrastructure such as the substation and connection works needed to receive power from the offshore wind farm.
Baltic Power selected Steelwind Nordenham GmbH as the preferred supplier of more than 70 monopile foundations and Smulders Projects Belgium NV as the supplier of fully equipped transition pieces, signing reservation agreements to secure manufacturing capacity for the offshore wind farm.
Baltic Power chose the consortium of Bladt Industries A/S and Semco Maritime A/S as the preferred supplier for two offshore substations, entering into reservation agreements covering delivery and offshore installation of the monopile-based platforms and topsides with transformers, switchgear, generators and auxiliary systems.
Following a procurement process, Baltic Power appointed Van Oord Offshore Wind Poland Sp. z o.o. as the main contractor for transport and installation of monopile foundations and associated transition pieces for the offshore wind farm.
Baltic Power selected Cadeler A/S as the main contractor to provide transport and installation services for the project’s offshore wind turbines, using a dedicated installation vessel meeting the farm’s component size requirements.
By mid‑February 2023, Baltic Power had completed its environmental surveys for the offshore wind farm and its connection infrastructure, and the associated environmental impact assessment had been submitted to the competent institutions. These completed surveys and filings were cited by the project company as key reasons why Baltic Power was among the most advanced offshore wind projects on the Polish market.
By early 2023, Baltic Power had obtained the required environmental decisions for both the Baltic Power offshore wind farm and its grid connection infrastructure, as evidenced by separate downloadable environmental decision documents for the wind farm and for the grid connection. These EIA approvals covered the project’s offshore and onshore transmission elements and were prerequisites for subsequent building permits and construction activities.
At the beginning of 2023, Baltic Power obtained the first required building permits for the onshore part of the Baltic Power Export grid connection project, covering infrastructure such as the onshore substation and land cable works associated with the export grid connection. This onshore permitting milestone was the first such decision issued for an offshore wind project in Poland and is cited as a key step towards the project’s final investment decision and subsequent construction phase.
By 2023, Northland Power reports that the Baltic Power project obtained a governmental subsidy in the form of a Contract for Difference under Poland’s offshore wind support scheme, ensuring investment feasibility and enabling the project to secure construction financing, including for the export grid connection.
By 2023, the Baltic Power offshore wind project had secured and accepted a formal grid connection agreement with the transmission system operator (TSO), confirming the connection of the wind farm’s export cable system into the Polish transmission grid.
Baltic Power planned a "Meet the Buyer" event in Sopot on 19 October 2022 to connect Tier‑1 contractors with potential Polish sub‑suppliers and present supply‑chain opportunities for the offshore wind farm as part of its procurement and local‑content strategy.
By 26 September 2022, Baltic Power had signed reservation agreements for key components of the project, including the onshore substation that will receive power from the offshore export cables. A consortium of GE and ENPROM was designated to be responsible for the onshore substation’s design, construction and supply of the necessary high‑voltage components, positioning them as the preferred supplier team for the onshore grid connection infrastructure.
On 16 September 2022, Baltic Power signed a Selected Supplier Agreement with a consortium including TELE-FONIKA Kable (TFK), NKT and DEME Offshore, setting out the delivery schedule for the project’s cable systems. This agreement, described alongside Baltic Power’s reservation contracts for inter-array, offshore and onshore export cables, effectively established the consortium as the preferred suppliers for the design, manufacturing and installation of approximately 340 km of land and subsea cables, including the export cable system linking the offshore wind farm to the onshore grid connection.
In June 2022, Baltic Power completed geotechnical seabed surveys in the area of the planned offshore wind farm in the Polish Baltic Sea near Choczewo and Łeba, marking an important early-development milestone for the project’s offshore infrastructure, including future export cable routes and foundations.
By 15 June 2022, Baltic Power had completed a nine‑month geotechnical survey campaign over its more than 130 km² wind farm site and the over 30 km export cable route, becoming the first wind farm developer in the Polish part of the Baltic Sea to finish such investigations. Using 13 specialised vessels and several hundred personnel, the campaign executed thousands of measurements and deep boreholes at planned foundation locations, providing data to finalise designs for turbine and substation foundations and cable infrastructure and to inform installation technology choices.
Northland Power states that the Baltic Power project team has submitted an environmental survey and impact assessment report, indicating that the EIA documentation for the offshore wind farm and its grid connection infrastructure was formally filed with the competent authorities ahead of project financing.
Baltic Power engaged engineering firm Jörss-Blunck-Ordemann (JBO) to design the wind turbine foundations, with JBO working on the structural design from December 2021 using data from the project’s geotechnical surveys.
On 17 September 2021, the Regional Director for Environmental Protection in Gdansk (RDOS) issued the environmental decision for the Baltic Power offshore wind farm under Article 71 of the Polish EIA Act. This is the key environmental consent for offshore wind in Poland, covering 76 turbines of up to 15 MW each and two offshore substations.
PKN ORLEN and Northland Power formed a joint venture for the Baltic Power offshore wind farm by agreeing that Northland would take a 49% interest in the project, with ORLEN retaining the remaining stake. The partnership establishes a shared-ownership structure to co-develop and co-own the up-to-1,200 MW Baltic Power project located about 23 km off the Polish Baltic coast, underpinned by a 25‑year Contract for Difference revenue framework.
Northland Power entered into an agreement with PKN ORLEN to acquire a 49% equity interest in the Baltic Power offshore wind project in the Baltic Sea, converting Baltic Power from a wholly owned ORLEN development into a 51% ORLEN / 49% Northland co-owned project. Northland indicated it expected to invest about PLN 290 million during 2021, including the purchase price and additional development spending for Baltic Power.
Baltic Power secured its grid connection by signing a grid connection agreement with the Polish transmission system operator PSE S.A. in 2020, confirming that the planned offshore wind farm will be connected via a 400 kV onshore substation near Żarnowiec to the national transmission network.
In 2020, the Baltic Power project company filed its environmental permit application, submitting the environmental impact assessment for the offshore wind farm to the relevant Polish authorities as part of securing key development approvals alongside the location permit and grid connection agreement.
In 2020, Baltic Power secured its location permit (PSzW) for the construction and use of artificial islands and offshore structures in the Polish Exclusive Economic Zone of the Baltic Sea, providing the core development consent to build the offshore wind farm.
In 2020, the Baltic Power offshore wind project secured its location permit (PSZW) for the construction and use of artificial islands and offshore structures in the Polish Exclusive Economic Zone of the Baltic Sea, establishing the seabed development rights for the wind farm area of about 130 km² located roughly 23 km off the Polish coast near Łeba and Choczewo. This permit, noted alongside the grid connection agreement and environmental permit filing, positioned Baltic Power as one of Poland’s most advanced offshore wind projects.
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