PGE Baltica: Contract Signed for Construction of Operational and Service Base in Ustka
On Wednesday, March 26 this year, in Gdańsk, PGE Baltica and the construction corporation DORACO signed a contract for building an operational and service base in Ustka, which will serve the Baltica 2 offshore wind farm.
The contract was signed during the first day of the Energy Summit trade fair organized in the exhibition halls of Amber Expo in Gdańsk. The document was signed by: Bartosz Fedurek, CEO of PGE Baltica, Piotr Dziubałtowski, Vice President of PGE Baltica for Operations, and Radosław Jarosiewicz, Vice President of the DORACO Construction Corporation.
The selected general contractor will design in detail and build new port infrastructure and buildings in Ustka, which will constitute the operational and service base for offshore wind farms.
PGE Baltica selected DORACO through a tender process back in December of last year. Due to the fact that one of the bidders, also participating in the process, filed an appeal against this decision, the client re-examined and re-evaluated the offers. In February, DORACO’s offer was selected again, and no further appeals were filed.
Dariusz Marzec, CEO of PGE Polish Energy Group, said:
“The investments we are implementing serve the economic development of both large urban centers and smaller ones, such as Ustka. They create jobs and provide a new perspective for the functioning of the entire Pomerania region. These are projects worth hundreds of billions of zlotys – this translates into jobs, skills building, and the education system.”
He added with satisfaction: “It’s great that Ustka, which is traditionally associated with vacations, will receive an investment boost of over 100 million zlotys, which will allow the city to change its profile. It will enable the city to have a year-round profile, consistently related to the sea and maritime economy, but in a highly sophisticated and most modern technical way in the world.”
The PGE CEO also noted that today’s contract with DORACO is an example of so-called “local content”.
“I am very pleased to collaborate with DORACO because it shows that contracts related to energy infrastructure construction go to Polish companies and Polish workers. Our goal is for these investments to serve economic growth and create new jobs,” added Dariusz Marzec.
Radosław Jarosiewicz from DORACO said: “I would like to sincerely thank you for the trust. A Polish investor is commissioning work to a Polish contractor, who will further commission supplies, execution, and subcontracting to local entities in the local market. Pomerania will benefit, and Poland will also benefit because jobs will be created here.”
“We have been operating in the market for 35 years, implementing comprehensive construction, specializing in hydrotechnical and cubature construction. We love ‘design and build’ projects. We have all three components in this project, we feel strong, and we will certainly not disappoint. Deadlines and quality will be met, which I guarantee today,” added the DORACO Vice President.
The DORACO Construction Corporation from Gdańsk has previously implemented hydrotechnical projects including reconstructions and modernizations of ports in Szczecin, Gdynia, and Frombork. At the end of February, DORACO signed a contract with the Maritime Office in Szczecin to reconstruct breakwaters in the port of Darłowo.
Construction work in the Ustka port is planned to begin this spring.
The new PGE Baltica facilities in Ustka will be built on an area of approximately 2.3 hectares on the west side of the port. They will consist of an office and social building, a warehouse building, a maneuvering yard, and a quay where service vessels for crew transport to offshore wind farms (so-called CTV – crew transfer vessels) will dock. The planned commissioning of the O&M base is the fourth quarter of 2026.
The first wind farm to be serviced from the Ustka base will be Baltica 2, which PGE is building in the Baltic Sea together with the Danish company Ørsted.
