Area D is Lithuania’s planned second offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea near Palanga, tendered as a ~700 MW project intended to expand the country’s nascent offshore pipeline. The site occupies a large lease area (reported in official material as roughly 135–136 km²) and has been described in p...
Lithuania’s Ministry of Energy presented for public consultation amendments to the Law on Energy from Renewable Sources to revise the conditions of the offshore wind tender that was announced in November 2024 and suspended in January 2025, covering the country’s second offshore wind park. The proposed changes aim to protect consumers, expand the number of beneficiary municipalities, rebalance onshore versus offshore generation, and reduce overall project costs by about EUR 500 million, with the second offshore wind park tender to be renewed after the Government and Seimas approve the amendments and the park expected to start operating around 2033.
On 23 October 2023, Lithuania’s Environmental Protection Agency issued an environmental impact assessment decision for the installation and operation of an offshore wind farm in Lithuania’s marine territory within the areas designated by Government Resolution No. 697, based on an EIA report prepared by CORPI for the Ministry of Energy. This approval covers offshore wind development in the specified territorial sea area of the Baltic Sea and provides the environmental consent framework needed for subsequent project tenders and permitting steps.
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The Government of Lithuania approved the location and developer eligibility requirements for offshore wind farm tenders in the Baltic Sea and announced that, in addition to the first 700 MW project, a second offshore wind farm tender in Lithuanian territorial waters near Palanga would be launched in autumn 2023. The National Energy Regulatory Council (NERC) is to run the tender, applying financial capacity, offshore experience, environmental obligations, and community contribution criteria to select the developer.
On 22 June 2020, the Lithuanian Government adopted Resolution No. 697 designating specific parts of Lithuania’s territorial sea and/or exclusive economic zone in the Baltic Sea, including the area later used for an offshore wind farm near Palanga, as zones where tenders for offshore renewable electricity plants with defined installed capacities would be organised.
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