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Poland to hold long-awaited first auction for offshore wind capacity
Poland’s Energy Regulatory Office (URE) has confirmed it will hold an auction for up to 4 GW of offshore wind capacity later this year
The URE said the country’s long-awaited first auction for offshore windfarms will be held on 17 December 2025.
The winning projects in the auction will be awarded a 25-year contract for difference (CfD). They will be selected based on which offers the lowest price for the electricity the windfarms generate.
Regulations covering the support arrangements for the windfarms were published by the URE on 27 May 2025, although the regulator noted a pending draft amendment to the country’s Act on the promotion of electricity generation in offshore windfarms may mean the regulations need to be updated before the December auction.
The announcement by the URE on 9 June 2025 came on the same day Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) agreed to fund two large offshore wind developments in the Polish sector of the Baltic Sea, Bałtyk 2 and Bałtyk 3. The windfarms will each have a capacity of 720 MW. NIB’s €126M (US$144M) financing package has a maturity of 26 years, and will enable the construction and operation of Bałtyk 2 and Bałtyk 3. Located between 22 km and 37 km off the coast of Poland, the windfarms are being jointly developed by Norway’s Equinor Wind Power and Poland’s Polenergia. The projects have secured more than €6Bn in financing, with the European Investment Bank (EIB) by far the largest lender, having provided a loan of €700M, €350 for each project. The windfarms are due to commence operation in 2028.
Equinor Wind Power and Polish Polenergia are also advancing the Bałtyk 1 offshore windfarm, which is due to be the final phase of these three projects. Together, Bałtyk 1, Bałtyk 2 and Bałtyk 3 will have a combined capacity of up to 3 GW, making it the largest offshore energy development in the Baltic to date.
At the end of May 2025, the Polish government also announced €54 million in state support for the construction of a factory for towers for offshore wind turbines, a facility that will be built by a Polish subsidiary of Spanish renewable energy company Windar Renovables.
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