ELWIND Export (Latvia portion) is the planned offshore grid connection to evacuate electricity from the Latvian ELWIND offshore wind development in the Kurzeme area (offshore Kurzeme, between Liepāja and Ventspils). The Latvian share of the joint ELWIND project is planned at around 700–1,000 MW (...
By 2024, the ELWIND project, including its associated transmission infrastructure such as the Latvian export connection, was included in ENTSO-E’s Pan-European Ten-Year Network Development Plan (TYNDP), formally recognising it within the EU-wide grid development framework.
By 2024, the ELWIND project, covering both the offshore wind park and its cross-border transmission infrastructure including the Latvian grid connection, was included on the European Union’s Projects of Common Interest (PCI) list, enabling access to CEF-Energy co-financing for wind park support and cross-border transmission construction.
In July 2023, the ELWIND project received €18.7 million in support from the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA), providing EU grant co‑financing for high‑quality studies to assess environmental impacts in the Latvian and Estonian offshore wind areas and to plan the project’s cross‑border transmission connections and integration of the offshore wind output into the onshore electricity grid, including the Latvian export connection.
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In February 2023, the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia (LIAA) signed an agreement with Estonia’s Environmental Investment Centre (KIK) to initiate cooperation on the ELWIND project and submitted a project application to the EU Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) programme, seeking grant co‑financing for environmental and technical studies, including those needed for planning the hybrid offshore wind farm’s cross‑border grid connections and integration with the onshore transmission network in Latvia and Estonia.
On 18 September 2020, the governments of Latvia and Estonia signed a Memorandum of Understanding to initiate cooperation on developing a joint offshore wind park project in the Baltic Sea and to select the project areas, establishing the basis for the ELWIND hybrid project that combines the offshore wind farm with associated transmission infrastructure and an interconnection between the two countries, including the Latvian offshore grid connection to the onshore 330 kV network.
The ELWIND project launched a marine mammal study in the joint Estonia–Latvia offshore wind area, marking the start of an environmental survey campaign in the planned offshore wind development zone that underpins further design and permitting work for the project’s infrastructure, including the Latvian offshore grid connection.
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