Poland: From service stations to renewable energy

Statoil/Equinor has been present in Poland during two distinct periods. In 1993, the company opened its first service station in the country. Over the years, the network grew to more than one hundred stations before being sold to the Canadian company Alimentation Couche-Tard in 2012. Four years later, the Statoil name also disappeared from the service station branding.

Following the sale of the service station business, six years passed before the company returned to Poland. This time, however, the focus was on offshore and onshore wind power, as well as utility-scale solar energy.

The Baltic Sea

In 2018, the company acquired interests in the Bałtyk II and Bałtyk III offshore wind projects. Equinor and Polenergia each hold a 50% ownership interest in the projects, and in 2025 a final investment decision was taken to proceed with their development. Construction is currently under way (2026). Combined, the two projects will have an installed capacity of 1,440 MW. Bałtyk I is also being developed by the same owners.

Onshore

Onshore, Equinor has several renewable energy projects under development through Wento, a company it acquired in 2021. Wento operates one wind farm and three solar power plants. The Wilko wind farm was acquired in 2023.

The Stępień solar power plant, completed in 2022 with a capacity of 58 MW, was Equinor’s first project of its kind in Poland. The two other solar plants are Zagórzyca (60 MW, first production in 2023) and Lipno (53 MW, first production in 2024).

As of 2026, Equinor also has the Miłosław solar power plant and the Zawiercie battery energy storage facility under construction.