Polish company to carry out conceptual design for Baltica 1 offshore wind farm

PGE Baltica, a PGE Group company, has signed an agreement with ENERGOPROJEKT-KATOWICE S.A. to carry out the conceptual design for Offshore Wind Farm Baltica 1.

The conceptual design is an indispensable element of the investment process related to the construction of offshore wind farms, which aims to select the most optimal power derivation technology.

The scope of work includes electrical analyses, including e.g. power flow in steady and fault conditions, short-circuit analyses and preliminary harmonic analyses. At the same time, cost and reliability analyses will be carried out, among other things. The resulting documentation will be used for further design work on power evacuation from the Baltica 1 offshore wind farm.

PGE Group’s Offshore Programme envisages the construction of the Baltica Offshore Wind Farm, implemented in two phases – Baltica 2 and Baltica 3, with a total installed capacity of up to 2.5 GW by 2030. These projects are being developed jointly with Ørsted. Then, after 2030, the Baltica 1 Wind Power Plant with a capacity of approximately 0.9 GW will be added to the Group’s portfolio.

By acquiring new areas for development in the Baltic Sea, the PGE Group will be able to build further offshore wind farms by 2040. Together with the projects currently under construction, this will allow it to achieve more than 7 GW of installed offshore generating capacity.

The Baltica 1 offshore wind farm project, with a capacity of approximately 0.9 GW, is one of three projects currently under construction by the PGE Group in the Baltic Sea, located about 80 km from the coastline, roughly at the level of the town of Leba in the Pomeranian Voivodeship. Among other things, the project already has a location permit and connection agreement in place, and the first full year of wind, sea current and wave surveys behind it.

This year, PGE Baltica has begun investigations of the subsoil for the onshore part of the investment and signed an agreement for preliminary geotechnical studies of the seabed and for geological studies for a land-sea drilling, as well as selected a geotechnical and structural designer for the subsoil exploration stage of the investment and along the route of the export cable. The Baltica 1 offshore wind farm will be commissioned after 2030.

Source: PortalMorski.pl