An appeal led by the Polish Chamber of the Chemical Industry asks the European Commission to pause the binding 2030 RFNBO target for industry and reassess the 2035 goal.
The first monopiles for Ocean Winds' 390 MW BC-Wind farm have reached the Świnoujście terminal, the first time foundations of this size have been handled at a Polish installation port.
PGE Baltica, the PGE Group's offshore wind company, is relocating its registered office to Gdańsk, where it already employs more than 50 people.
PSEW's Offshore Wind Poland 2026 conference will gather industry leaders from seven countries in Warsaw on 17–18 November, including a new Baltic Offshore Strategic Summit on regional cooperation and security.
From the Sopot Declaration to counter-drone funding in Vilnius and Helsinki, Baltic governments are treating cables, substations and offshore wind farms as strategic infrastructure. A look at what was agreed and what comes next.
NATO's top commander in Europe told the Warsaw Security Forum the alliance is ready to fight if attacked, while stressing he does not see conflict as imminent.
Ørsted has published a report on its 15 years in Poland, covering the supply chain, jobs and skills, port investment and the role of offshore wind in regional economies.
European Energy has agreed to sell the 21 MW Myślibórz onshore wind project in north-western Poland to TAURON. The six-turbine project is ready for construction.
Northland Power has closed about PLN 500 million in financing for the Mieczysławów and Kamionka battery projects in Poland, which together will offer 300 MW / 1.2 GWh.
Four events from 2026, from The smarter E in Munich to WindEurope's Rotterdam workshop, point to the same shift: running wind, storage and grids better, not just building more.
ARP, with PARP, PGE Baltica and Orlen Neptun, has launched a programme of subsidised training and up to PLN 100 million in loans and leasing for Polish offshore wind suppliers.
Germany's Ostwind 3 platform and Poland's Choczewo and Żarnowiec stations show how Baltic offshore wind depends on grid work started years ahead of the turbines.
From Klaipėda's 2033–2044 LNG bookings to ORLEN's Norwegian stake and NATO's warning, the Baltic region is pursuing gas diversification, support for Ukraine and homegrown power at once.
WAT has signed offset agreements with Boeing and GE Aerospace for Poland's 96-helicopter Apache programme, including an AH-64E training centre and a composites laboratory.
RelyOn Poland has become the first training provider in Poland's Pomorze region to offer OPITO-accredited offshore safety courses, adding capacity as the Baltic's offshore wind workforce grows.
EU funding for subsea cable repair covers telecom lines, not the power cables carrying offshore wind and interconnector traffic, leaving grid operators to pool their own vessels and spares as a nascent rental market fills the equipment gap.
A wave of EU interconnection funding has collided with security fears and national pushback — from a Swedish cable freeze to a sabotage-repair fund and a Polish blackout drill.
Ocean Winds has laid the cornerstone for an O&M base in Władysławowo that will support its BC-Wind offshore wind farm for decades, as Poland's coastal service infrastructure continues to take shape.
From 443,000 European wind jobs and 180,000 offshore roles to Germany's inland supply chain, Pomerania's training push and Vestas' cuts at Lindø: a roundup of what the employment figures mean for the Baltic.
A tracker of the Bałtyk 2 and 3 offshore wind build: rock placement, first foundations, substation topsides, the onshore grid link and the milestones still ahead before first power in 2027.
A roundup of the early-2026 milestones across Poland's three offshore wind projects, from Baltic Power's fishermen compensation to Baltica 2's seabed works and Baltic East's auction price, with a look at what comes next.
Four early-2026 forums, from the Hamburg North Sea Summit to a 47-region declaration in Stockholm, converged on cross-border offshore planning. A roundup of what they decided and what the Baltic can borrow.
The industry strategy values Poland's onshore wind market at up to PLN 214 billion by 2040, but the figure rests on 1.5 to 2 GW of annual additions, a turbine supply chain still 75 per cent foreign, and a grid that already curtails 5 to 10 per cent of renewable output.
Prevention and detection dominate the debate on Baltic subsea infrastructure. Repair capacity - vessels, spare sections and crews - is the thinnest layer, and the European funding that exists mostly covers telecom cables rather than power.
Permitting used to be the hard part. Now it is the wires: 72 TWh curtailed across Europe, 800 GW stuck in connection queues, and a Baltic hybrid interconnector facing a decision point.
COLI Group has completed a six-month transport of 14 power transformers from GE Vernova's Turkish factory to the onshore site for Poland's Baltica 2 offshore wind farm, using three vessels, two ports and temporary structures over bridges too weak to carry the load.
German data puts new onshore wind at 8.2 cents per kWh against gas backup at three to four times that. Auctions are oversubscribed and capital is queueing. The bottleneck has moved entirely to permitting.
Mine clearance, anti-submarine patrols, air defence and a defence-tech accelerator each protect Baltic energy assets in part. None of them was designed to, and the financing question is still open.
Repowering and life extension are becoming a mainstream route to new onshore wind capacity in Germany and the Nordics, as permitting and grid constraints slow greenfield development.
With 2.6 GW installed, Poland's first dedicated offshore installation port and a 6 GW project pipeline offshore, West Pomerania has the infrastructure. Whether it becomes an industrial base or a transit hub depends on local content.
Summit declarations, a NATO-funding proposal and a Finnish intelligence assessment now point the same way: Baltic offshore wind is being treated as critical infrastructure. Poland shows what that means on the ground.
Electrum says the renewable capacity it services under O&M contracts in Poland has passed 4 GW, up from close to 3 GW less than a year ago.
Baltic Power's construction ends in the second half of 2026 and the Łeba base pivots to roughly 30 years of operations. The open question is whether it becomes a single-farm service base or the anchor of a Baltic O&M cluster.
With 111 foundations in place at Baltica 2, more than 400 secondary steel units follow — around 75 per cent of them made in Poland — in work running to the end of 2026.
Polish offshore wind has moved local content from strategy documents into signed contracts — towers, foundations, FEED work and permits. A look at which parts of the chain Poland has captured, and which remain out of reach.
PGE and Ørsted have installed all 111 monopile foundations at the 1.5 GW Baltica 2 offshore wind farm on schedule. Secondary steel work now runs to the end of 2026, with turbines due in 2027.
The Baltic is too shallow to need Neretek's BC90 foundation. But the factories, quays and welders that a 60-90 metre foundation class would draw on are already working on Baltica 2.
WindEurope is backing two Cycling4Climate rides in September: Brussels on 12 September and Szczecin on 19 September, the latter with PSEW.
"First power to the grid" sounds like flipping a switch, but it is the visible tip of offshore wind commissioning — a sequence running from seabed surveys and cable trenching to onshore substation tests and grid-operator compliance. Baltic Power and Baltica 2 show how it works.
Poland's first purpose-built offshore wind installation port anchors a supply chain forming along the West Pomeranian coast. A look at how installation terminals work and why they set the pace of the build-out.
The science on wind turbines and health is settled: no confirmed harm, and noise at a safe distance comparable to a fridge. So why does the health scare persist — and what actually counters it?
With Baltic Power online, the PGE–Ørsted Baltica programme is Poland's next offshore frontier — from the Choczewo substation to 150 km of seabed cable routes and 107 turbines bound for Gdańsk.
Ports, factories and a growing supply chain are turning Poland's West Pomeranian coast into the industrial base for the country's offshore wind expansion.
Familiar claims paint Polish wind power as unhealthy, unreliable and uneconomic. A growing body of research maps where those narratives come from, what they cost, and why Poland's own Grajewo model points to the answer.
Poland's first offshore wind farm has gone from empty seabed to first power in under two years. Here is how Baltic Power was built — and what comes after the turbines are switched on.
The Norwegian cluster's 18–20 August visit takes suppliers to the Świnoujście Offshore Terminal and other West Pomeranian sites, with B2B meetings included.
Szczecin and Świnoujście are developing into major offshore wind bases, with ORLEN Neptun's installation terminal already booked at 70% of capacity.
Poland's first offshore wind farm has delivered its first electricity to the national grid. Baltic Power, with 54 of 76 turbines installed, is due for completion this autumn.
Baltic Power has installed 50 of its 76 Vestas 15 MW turbines. Mandatory testing and commissioning works begin in the coming weeks, ahead of completion in H2 2026.
Norway's Føn Energy Services has signed a multi-year O&M contract for Baltic Power, Poland's first offshore wind farm, covering all subsea assets ahead of its 2026 launch.
A report compiled for Poland's CBSS presidency maps the dozens of security cooperation formats in the Baltic Sea region, spanning critical infrastructure protection and energy security.
Poland's grid operator PSE ran a security exercise near Białystok simulating a physical attack on a highest-voltage substation, drawing in crisis services, PGE, the ABW security agency and military units.
Baltic Power, Poland's first offshore wind farm, is set to start generating electricity in the second half of 2026, with 76 turbines off Łeba and Choczewo covering around 3% of national demand.
VSB is presenting solar projects from Germany, Italy and Poland at Intersolar Europe, led by a 303 MWp solar-plus-storage development at Brzezinka, one of Poland's largest.
ORLEN is buying a 20% stake in Norway's Goliat field from Vår Energi, adding about 58 million boe and tripling output from the assets by the decade's end.
Baltic Power, developed by ORLEN and Northland Power, has installed 50 of its 76 Vestas 15 MW turbines off Choczewo and Leba. Poland's first offshore wind farm is now testing for grid integration ahead of full operation, with a planned capacity of around 1.2 GW.
A 25% increase in cross-border grid interconnection could let Europe use an extra 27 TWh of wind and solar by 2040 and avoid 16.3 million tonnes of CO2, an Aurora Energy Research study finds — warning that curtailment could double by 2030 without timely network investment.
OX2 has completed the foundation works at its 40 MW Annopol wind farm in eastern Poland, ahead of summer turbine assembly. The ten-turbine project will generate around 155 GWh a year under a long-term PPA with Amazon, with completion planned for 2027.
European Energy will keep managing six Polish wind farms totalling more than 83 MW for Enea Nowa Energia until the end of 2027.
Experts told a Warsaw debate that wind-turbine health scares work by sowing doubt, and that trusted local voices — not technical papers — are what counter them.
Iberdrola's Agnieszka Pakula told a Warsaw debate that residents only engage with the facts on wind farms once they hear about concrete local benefits.
Grajewo mayor Grzegorz Gorski told a Warsaw debate that 19 turbines bring his municipality PLN 3.2m a year, and that visible local benefits beat fake news.
More than 400 additional steel structures for the Baltica 2 offshore wind farm are on their way to the installation port at Rønne, with over 75% supplied by Polish manufacturers.
Figures presented in Warsaw show nearly 70,000 disinformation publications on energy since 2022 and a PSEW study in which one in four wind firms reported physical violence.
Twenty NATO ships and around 6,000 personnel from 15 nations have begun the annual BALTOPS exercise, commanded for the first time from JFC Brunssum.
Officials and analysts told a Warsaw press conference that disinformation against wind power is a funded Russian operation, with a record 2026 propaganda budget and energy named as a deliberate target.
Experts at PSEW 2026 said onshore wind is among Poland's cheapest power sources and could cut energy bills, but warned that grid limits, permitting and public opposition still hold it back.
An Ørsted survey presented at PSEW 2026 found strong Polish support for renewables but widespread misperceptions about the cost and efficiency of offshore wind.
A Warsaw press conference brought together ministers, analysts, scientists, an investor and a mayor to confront wind-energy myths and the funded disinformation behind them.
Opening a Warsaw conference, Minister Urszula Zielinska called wind-energy disinformation 'a slow drip of poison' and a deliberate, funded operation that is a matter of state security.
PGE Baltica has signed a contract with a consortium led by PROJMORS ASE Group to design the onshore grid connection for the roughly 1.3 GW Baltica 9+ offshore wind project, with power routed to the Krzemienica substation.
ORLEN Neptun and the Szczecin-Świnoujście ports authority have signed a letter of intent to study expanding the Świnoujście Offshore Terminal, Poland's first offshore wind installation terminal, one year after it opened.
Baltic Sea foreign ministers adopted the Sopot Declaration, pledging tougher coordinated action to protect undersea cables and pipelines and to curb Russia's shadow fleet.
Energy security is now a necessity, not an option, for Polish firms, mBank's Michał Popiołek told EKF 2026, urging companies to invest in their own renewables.
At EKF 2026 in Sopot, PSE chief Grzegorz Onichimowski called Poland's low electrification rate a 'civilisational distance' and a question of security and resilience.
Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Poland agreed in Vilnius to accelerate joint protection of energy infrastructure against hybrid threats, prioritising counter-drone systems.
ORLEN Neptun and the Szczecin–Świnoujście ports authority have signed a letter of intent to expand Poland's first offshore wind installation terminal after a strong first year.
With Baltic hybrid threats rising, Poland is moving to formally classify offshore wind farms as critical infrastructure, the PSEW says ahead of its 2026 conference.
At PSEW 2026 in Świnoujście, PKEE Brussels' Ryszard Pawlik argued the energy transition 'triangle' has become a pentagon, adding affordable prices and resilience, and called for smart electrification and diversification.
Poland's largest wind conference, PSEW 2026, ran 8-10 June in Świnoujście, spotlighting West Pomerania — the country's wind leader at 2.6 GW and around 130% renewables self-sufficient.
BXF Energia's Tomasz Grzęda says the main bottleneck for onshore wind in Poland is the early permitting phase, where siting and approvals can take years.
Poland's defence ministry has prepared a decision to make onshore wind siting near military areas more transparent and predictable, announced by Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz at PSEW 2026.
ORLEN Neptun and the Szczecin-Świnoujście ports signed a letter of intent to expand the Świnoujście Offshore Terminal, a year after Poland's first offshore installation hub opened.
VSB Group, founded in Dresden in 1996 and part of TotalEnergies since 2025, marks 30 years with 592 MW operating and 447 MW under construction in Germany, Poland and France.
NATO's largest Baltic Sea exercise began on 4 June with 20 ships sailing from Gdynia — the first BALTOPS run under a NATO command structure since 1972.
Polish fabricator Open Sea is building a 2,250 sqm production hall in Swinoujscie under a EUR 12m, EU-co-funded project, expanding its capacity for marine and offshore structures.
Exercise Open Spirit 2026 brought eight NATO nations to Latvian waters to neutralise World War-era ordnance from the Baltic seabed — a mission with direct implications for offshore wind installation safety.
PIMEW has submitted a formal position on Bill UD 2549 calling for a PIT exemption for Polish seafarers on offshore wind vessels, citing a 41% tax rate against 0% in Denmark and Belgium.
Smulders has completed the first load-out of suspended internal platform cages for Baltica 2 in Swinoujscie, supporting the 1.5 GW PGE-Orsted project off the Polish coast.
PSEW's position paper draws on European data to show that offshore wind farms can operate alongside fishing fleets and coastal tourism without significant conflict.
Polenergia has installed the first turbine foundations at the Bałtyk 2 and 3 offshore wind farms (1.44 GW combined) in Q1 2026, marking a key milestone for Poland's largest-ever offshore wind development co-built with Equinor.
ARP S.A. and the TFK Group have signed letters of intent with PGE Baltica and ORLEN Neptun to cooperate on submarine cable installation for Baltic offshore wind, using a Cable Laying Vessel that the Polish partners plan to build.
ARP S.A. and Grupa TFK have signed letters of intent with PGE Baltica and ORLEN Neptun to cooperate on Poland's first Cable Laying Vessel, targeting the growing Baltic Sea offshore wind cable installation market.
Youth delegates from across the Baltic Sea Region met in Warsaw for the CBSS Youth Ministerial 2026, producing recommendations on energy infrastructure, security and regional cooperation for Foreign Ministers.
NATO's Open Spirit 2026 exercise brought ships from eight nations to Latvia to neutralise legacy WWII mines in the Baltic Sea, with nearly 400 personnel and five autonomous underwater vehicle teams participating.
Saab and Poland's PGZ Group have signed a Strategic Collaboration Agreement covering naval vessels, submarines, an Underwater Technology Centre in Poland, and joint export opportunities.
Warsaw hosts the third Regional IAMD Coalitions Conference on 21–22 May 2026, bringing together NATO air and missile defence experts, defence industry leaders and scientists from Poland, the US, South Korea and beyond.
Modern offshore wind turbines are achieving capacity factors of 40–50%, debunking common myths about the reliability of offshore wind power in Poland, according to PSEW.
Baltic Power has opened its first recruitment round for the operational phase of Poland's 1.2 GW offshore wind farm, with roles at the Leba service base and in Warsaw.
The 18th Baltic Business Forum in Świnoujście addressed offshore wind, energy security and Polish-Ukrainian cooperation, with Deputy Minister Eliza Zeidler outlining plans for the Ukraine Recovery Conference 2026 in Gdańsk.