Norway and Poland are long-standing partners in cooperation for energy security and the development of the electricity sector towards increasing the potential of renewable energy sources.
Since 2018, Equinor, one of Norway’s leading offshore energy companies, has been making a strong mark on the Polish offshore wind market. The company holds a 50% stake in the Baltic 1, Baltic 2 and Baltic 3 offshore wind farm projects, which have a combined capacity of 3 GW.
In parallel, the Polish leader in the fuel sector – Grupa ORLEN, is developing its installations in the oil & gas sector and increasing its production volumes on the so-called Norwegian shelf, including through the company ORLEN Upstream Norway.
Our countries have very high ambitions, including in the field of offshore wind farms. By 2040, Poland plans to achieve a volume of around 18 GWe, while the Norwegian offshore wind strategy envisages as much as 30 GWe in the same period.
In May 2025, the ministers responsible for energy and climate in Poland and Norway signed an agreement to strengthen cooperation in the areas described above. This is to be achieved, among other things, through the exchange of services and products within supply chains, cooperation between entities in the energy and fuel sectors of both signatory countries, and even better utilisation of financial resources from Norwegian and EEA funds.
Regardless of the above, many areas of industrial and economic cooperation between our countries, including the shipbuilding sector, offshore oil & gas, offshore wind, and many others, are already being implemented.
During the Polish-Norwegian Industrial Cooperation Forum, we will discuss the real scale of this cooperation and development prospects for the coming years with a broad and cross-sectional group of representatives from industry and politics.
