Stories from Scandinavia, Poland and the Baltics
On 6 February, the largest thermal storage facility in the Baltics was opened. The Estonian heating provider Utilitas commissioned the 1100-MWh-Väo storage — a kind of big thermos – in the Estonian capital of Tallinn. The Väo site is the […]
After years of no progress under the former right-wing PiS government, offshore wind power is now underway in Poland. Three new projects were auctioned off by the government in December, aiming at adding 3.4 gigawatts of electricity generation in the […]
The Johan Sverdrup oil field in Norway, run by Norway’s state-owned energy company Equinor, is under fire. Despite being profiled as a “climate-friendly” offshore oil field with little CO2 emissions, the site apparently releases too much of even more damaging […]
On 2 October, Poland signed a first agreement to connect the Central European country to NATO’s fuel pipeline system that is meant for military purposes. It will still need a couple of years and likely construction of new pipelines before […]
Poland cheers the find of oil off its coast in the Baltic Sea by Canadian CEPetro. Announced last week, it will help the Eastern European nation of almost 40 million inhabitants to become less energy dependent, many in the country […]
The Polish government has allocated EUR 54 million to support what it is calling a “the world’s largest factory for offshore monopiles”. The plant is to be built in Northern Poland by Spanish Windar Renovables, and i it supposed to […]
Just like the Southwest of Poland is strong in coal power, the North should be great in renewable power. With this message, the Polish government launched projects Kashubia on 6 May 2025. The goal: to strengthen the strategic position of […]
In Oskarshamn, on the southeast coast of Sweden, construction has started on the country’s first modern small nuclear power plant. Minister of Economic Affairs and Energy, Ebba Bush, took the symbolic first sod on 3 February 2025. Located in the […]
The Danish government has decided to put the planned construction of an island just for the production of renewable energy on hold. The island was planned 15 kilometres south of the strategically situated island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. […]
French energy company Oxan has won the bidding for a 900-megawatt wind farm off the coast of Latvia, the Latvian authorities announced on 23 January 2025. Named Saare 1, the offshore wind farm will be situated 60 kilometres (37 miles) […]
The world’s largest public fund, Norway’s Oljefundet, did very well in 2024. The value increased by almost EUR 340 billion (NOK 4,000) in a year time. In 2024, the Oil Fund had more than 11,000 investments in companies and projects […]
In about one month, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania cut themselves off from the Russian power grid, called BRELL. On February 8, the Baltic electricity operators will leave the Russian power supply, and join the European on the 9th, a year […]