Summary: Independent Poland, after more than two decades of energy dependence – primarily on the Russian Federation – has become almost completely sovereign in this fundamentally important aspect for the security of each state and its citizens. The most important factor in achieving such a moment in our history was the adoption of a number of strategic, state and economic decisions recognizing the Baltic Sea as a key element of the Polish energy independence strategy. Therefore, it is necessary for the relevant entities to have formal and practical competences, capabilities and tools to create a system for securing such energy infrastructure, especially in times of dynamically growing threats. This publication presents a synthetic description of the legal and organizational conditions concerning the broadly understood safety (protection and defense) of offshore energy installations – those already existing as well as planned, with particular emphasis on the specificity of infrastructure in the field of offshore wind energy. A particularly important issue highlighted in the study is the problem of the "missing link" in the existing and developed offshore energy security model, i.e. the need to create and constantly manage by the state administration a system of preventive, active, integrated and permanent security and defense of offshore energy installations. Purpose and research methods: Objective: to indicate the need to create a system for securing Polish offshore energy infrastructure. Research methods: analysis of legal regulations; analysis of industry publications; assessments and conclusions in connection with professional involvement in the implementation of the offshore wind farm construction project; assessments and conclusions in connection with professional experience as a former deputy head of the secret service - responsible for the economic security of the state. Conclusions / recommendations: Taking a state decision and, consequently, urgent actions towards developing comprehensive solutions for planning, creating and managing a system to actively secure and defend Polish offshore energy installations. It is also recommended to create appropriate, comprehensive assumptions in this area by adopting a national strategy for the security of offshore energy infrastructure, in which the state would commit to developing a resilient and sustainable model of maritime economy, capable of managing risk and fully responding to interference and hostile behaviour in all forms. Such a state strategy would also specify, among other things: appropriate objectives and scopes of activities; legal, organisational and financial methods and forms; scope and forms of international cooperation and with investors, the mode of periodic evaluation of the system depending on changing economic and geopolitical realities.