The governments of Estonia and Latvia have selected the locations, in their respective parts of the Baltic Sea, where they will build their joint offshore wind energy project, the 700 MW to 1 GW Elwind project. In Estonia the project will be located in the sea west of the Sõrve peninsula. The Latvian part of the project will be located off the cities of Ventspils and Liepaja.
The tender for the rights to develop the project is scheduled to be held in 2026. The project is expected to enter the construction phase in 2028 and be commissioned by 2030 at the earliest. The project is being implemented by Estonia’s Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications, the Latvian Ministry of Economy, the Center for Environmental Investments, the Latvian Investment and Development Agency, and the Latvian grid operator Augstsprieguma tīkls (AST).
At the end of 2021, neither Estonia nor Latvia had any offshore wind installed capacity (and only 316 MW and 81 MW for onshore wind respectively). Currently, Estonia has more than 3 GW of wind projects under development, against 700 MW for Latvia.
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