The Danish Environmental Protection Agency has granted a new environmental permit for the 10 bcm/year Baltic Pipe gas pipeline, allowing construction to restart on two sections after a hiatus since May 2021. The Danish gas transmission system operator (TSO) Energinet plans to start the gas pipeline from 1 October 2022, using the existing gas network until the completion of new gas pipeline sections. Construction should be completed by the end of 2022 and the project should be fully operational on 1 January 2023.
The project is developed by the Polish and Danish gas TSOs Gaz-System and Energinet, which made a positive investment decision for the development of the €1.6bn project in December 2018. The gas pipeline would be made of five parts: one offshore pipeline in the North Sea between the Norwegian and the Danish gas transmission systems across 105-110 km, then a 210-230 km gas transmission section and a compressor station onshore Denmark, a 275-km offshore pipeline between Denmark and Poland across the Baltic Sea and a 230-340 km onshore gas transmission pipeline in Poland.