Now, Lithuania’s Ministry of Energy announced plans to re-launch the tender on 18 November 2024. The list of qualified bidders is expected to be published on 15 April next year.
The winner of the tender for developing a 700 MW offshore wind farm is planned to be revealed in June 2025.
Lithuania plans to have two offshore wind farms with a combined capacity of 1.4 GW. Both wind farms would provide about half of the country’s current electricity demand, according to the ministry.
The Lithuanian government held the auction, the country’s first for an offshore wind project, last year. In July 2023, the government provisionally selected the joint venture between Ocean Winds and Ignitis Renewables. Three months later, it officially confirmed the joint venture as the developer of Lithuania’s first offshore wind farm.
In March 2024, Fugro deployed one of its floating LiDAR buoys in the maritime area of the country’s future offshore wind farm to gather wind and meteorological measurements in the Baltic Sea.
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