Avara
Estonia's first offshore building permit, May 2025.
Status
Early Developmentlifecycle stage
ProspectiveHafrok completion outlook
Ownership
OXOXAN Energy ◆
OCOcean Connect Energy ◆
SNSNOW ◆
Location
Baltic Sea
Technology
Capacity
900 MW ◆
Turbines
—
Foundation
—
Site & conditions
Site rights
Seabed rights held Site award · TTJA (Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority) · 2025-01 ◆
Water depth
90–147 m ≈
Distance from shore
60 km ◇
Wind speed
9.9 m/s @ 150 m ≈
Revenue & grid
Offtake
—
Grid
—
Schedule
FID
Not taken
COD · Hafrok
2035 expected
Delivery outlook modelled by Hafrok · calibrated on delivered projects
2035
expected year of commercial operation
Chance of delivery
≈45%
estimated chance this project reaches commercial operation
Early Development projects complete ≈61% of the time on Hafrok's record. This one sits well below that: a market with no delivery record yet, its size, technical complexity and no offtake contract yet.
COD outlook
If it completes, when — Hafrok’s probability by year (teal)
| Year | Probability |
|---|---|
| 2034 | 14.1% |
| 2035 (expected) | 28.0% |
| 2036 | 22.7% |
| 2037 | 14.6% |
| 2038 | 8.7% |
| 2039 | 5.1% |
| 2040 | 3.1% |
| 2041 | 1.8% |
| 2042 | 1.1% |
| 2043 | 0.7% |
How Hafrok got this date
1
No dated milestone yet
Nothing is consented or financed with a date, so the estimate starts from today (
2026), adds the time similar projects (in new offshore-wind markets) took from consent to operation, plus an allowance for obtaining consent.2
Earliest credible date
Typical consent-to-operation time plus allowances means commercial operation before
2033 is not credible.3
No route to market yet — counted from 2029
The project has no offtake contract yet. No contract, auction or tariff exists in Estonia today that a project without an offtake agreement could win, and none is scheduled. Hafrok believes a first support award there is unlikely before
2029 Q3, and counts from then. This is Hafrok's judgment, not a fact on the record — what it rests on: Estonia market page. The permits are not affected; winners typically reach final investment decision about 2 years after an award (2031 Q3), then build time on top gives 2034 Q3. The milestone timing is already later than that, so it stands.4
Result
Expected commercial operation
2035, likely range 2035–2040 (the middle half of outcomes for similar projects). With no milestone to build from, the earliest credible date is the estimate, with a deliberately wide range.5
Year-by-year chart
The bars spread that estimate across years using how similar projects actually slipped against their dates — more often late than early, which is why the bars lean right.
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Chance of delivery — separate from timing
Start from the share of Early Development projects that went on to complete — ≈61%, measured on Hafrok's record of delivered and abandoned projects, with an allowance held back where that record cannot yet speak (projects still unresolved, changed market conditions). About three in four early-stage projects with a final outcome went on to operate — a record from an easier era. Most of today's early pipeline is still unresolved, so the estimate discounts it. Then adjust for this project's own evidence — offtake, market, size, technical complexity — to ≈45%, which rates it
Prospective on Hafrok's four-step delivery scale (Delivering · Expected · Prospective · Fragile).Project timeline verified milestones only — each date carries its provenance mark
Dashed tick marks today (9 Sep 2026).
Revenue & offtake route to market — open
No offtake secured — route to market open
The routes describe what exists in this market — not a prediction of which the project will take. Timing math for the auction gate lives in the delivery outlook above.
Next visible round · from the auction calendar
ELWIND (Estonia-Latvia joint project) rights auction ◇
indicative
Installation how the build is going · from satellite counts and Hafrok’s registers
Installation not started
nothing to count yet: the satellite tracker begins when offshore construction does
Installation · on record
StageEarly Development
Offshore constructionnot started
Expected start of operationnot stated
Sources & verification
5/12 fields verified · rests on 8 sources (3 primary) · ◆ 2 documents held
◆Verified≈Modelled◇Sourced∴Inferred⌁Convention○Unverified∅No source·Derived
Numbers are stable citation ids — grouped by source class, so they are not consecutive.
Operator2
[7]
OXAN Energy2025-10-28◆ The offshore Estonian project Saare 1 be…
“OXAN Energy, together with partners Ocean Connect Energy and SNOW, has unveiled the new identity of their jointly developed offshore wind project, located 60 km off the Estonian coast. Formerly known …”
supportsownerTotal capacity
[8]
TTJA (Estonian Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority)2025-01-23◆ French company Oxan Energy won the aucti…
“French company Oxan Energy won the auction for Saare 1 sea area | Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority Skip to main content Accessibility Rohkem infot juurdepääsetavuse kohta on l…”
supportsSite rights
Auction pipeline1
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ELWIND (Estonia/Latvia)2026
ELWIND (EE-LV, up to 1 GW) — rights to be auctioned 2026 after studies/permits; CEF co-funded.
supportsELWIND (Estonia-Latvia joint project) rights auction
Trade press5
[1]
offshoreWIND.biz2025
Press report — cited, not quoted; read it at the source link.
supportsTotal capacity
[2]
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