The Ministry of Infrastructure has not awarded any company the first out of 11 locations for offshore wind farms to be built in the Baltic Sea after 2030.
The Ministry of Infrastructure informed that for the first location (area 53.E.1 – at the level of Ustka, located farthest from land out of all 11 locations), none of the applicants met the minimum qualification criteria in the criterion of the proposed periods of the permit validity, including the dates of commencement and completion of construction and operation of the project.
“The proposed schedules for the implementation of the project did not include the deadlines for obtaining a building permit and, at the same time, the ban on erecting and using artificial islands, structures and devices in the basin before the end of 2040. Taking into account the applicable regulations, it is not possible to develop a feasible implementation schedule for a project that would obtain a permit in 2022 or 2023.