Saare-Liivi

Status
Early Developmentlifecycle stage
ProspectiveHafrok completion outlook
Ownership
UWUtilitas Wind — 100% 
Location
Estonia
Gulf of Riga
Technology
Capacity 1,200 MW 
Turbines
Foundation
Site & conditions
Site rights Seabed rights held Site award · TTJA (Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority) · 2026-01  Water depth 27–33 m  Wind speed 9.6 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)
20%40%60%80%100% 2034: 14.1% (conditional on completion) 2035: 28.0% (conditional on completion) 2036: 22.7% (conditional on completion) 2037: 14.6% (conditional on completion) 2038: 8.7% (conditional on completion) 2039: 5.1% (conditional on completion) 2040: 3.1% (conditional on completion) 2041: 1.8% (conditional on completion) 2042: 1.1% (conditional on completion) 2043: 0.7% (conditional on completion)2026now2028203020322034203528%EXPECTED2036203820402042
COD probability by year, conditional on completion
YearProbability
203414.1%
2035 (expected)28.0%
203622.7%
203714.6%
20388.7%
20395.1%
20403.1%
20411.8%
20421.1%
20430.7%
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.
6
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

2027’28’29’30’31’32’33’34’35Commercial operation 2035 ·Hafrok expected
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
expected — · planned · the round’s published documents do not name this project
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

1/9 fields verified · rests on 6 sources (2 primary) · ◆ 1 document held
VerifiedModelledSourcedInferredConventionUnverifiedNo source·Derived
Numbers are stable citation ids — grouped by source class, so they are not consecutive.
Operator2
[1]
Utilitas2025
supportsownerTotal capacity
[6]
TTJA (Estonian Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority)2026-01-28◆ TTJA issued Utilitas Wind a superficies …
“TTJA väljastas OÜ-le Utilitas Wind hoonestusloa Saare-Liivi meretuulepargi rajamiseks | Tarbijakaitse ja Tehnilise Järelevalve Amet Liigu edasi põhisisu juurde Juurdepääsetavus Rohkem infot juurdep…”
supportsSite rights
Auction pipeline1
[7]
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 press3
[2]
Global Energy Monitor2026
supportsCoordinates
[3]
GEBCO Compilation Group2020
supportsWater depth
[4]
DTU Wind Energy / World Bank (Global Wind Atlas)2026
supportsMean wind speed