Lietuvos Energija, Lithuania’s state-owned utility, has launched a search for an international developer to help it build offshore wind power projects in Europe.

The company, which currently aims to develop some 3GW of renewable energy plant by 2030, has issued a so-called expression of interest for a “strategic partner”, as part of a two-stage process which would see it first take a minority stake in an offshore development “in the European Economic Area” before assuming “an active role” in a project in the Baltic Sea.