Warsaw hosted the largest conference dedicated to offshore wind energy – Offshore Wind Poland 2025. PGE Baltica, a member of the PGE Group and the main partner of the event, actively participated in key discussions on the development of the sector and building Poland’s competitive advantage on the market.
During the inaugural session, in which PGE Baltica was represented by its CEO Bartosz Fedurka, fundamental issues for the future of the industry were discussed:
- The importance of regulatory stability: The need to ensure a predictable legal environment and consistent action across political divides.
- Market opportunities: Benefits for future projects in Poland resulting from periodic adjustments in the European offshore market.
- Macroeconomic benefits: The impact of offshore investments on the Polish economy.
- Sector cooperation: The role of partnerships in the development of offshore wind energy.
In his speech, CEO Bartosz Fedurek emphasized the strategic importance of the sector:
“The recently updated PGE Group Strategy assumes the construction of 4 GW of offshore capacity by 2035. This confirms the importance of this technology in the process of modernizing the Polish energy sector. Importantly, from the very beginning, offshore in Poland was designed as something more than just a technology for energy production. Offshore provides a strong impetus for the development of other industries: port, shipbuilding, steel, construction, and others. The projects implemented by PGE Baltica will strengthen the national economy, creating new jobs and opening up development prospects for various branches of Polish industry, as well as for science—and we can see this in very specific examples. At the same time, as PGE, we are mindful of the primacy of energy system stability, which is why we are also investing in flexible gas capacity that will provide energy during periods of weaker wind and sunlight and which, as a peak and reserve source, will not consume large volumes of gas.”
The Role of Polish Suppliers and Local Content
One of the central points of the Offshore Wind Poland program was the discussion on the key role of Polish suppliers in building a domestic value chain for offshore wind energy.
Piotr Dziubałtowski, Vice President of Operations at PGE Baltica, took part in the panel discussion on this issue. He presented a project carried out jointly with the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Adam Mickiewicz University and the Poznań University of Technology. This initiative focused on developing a model for evaluating tender offers for offshore wind farms. The aim is to develop a method which, while complying with EU public procurement law, will enable the optimal increase of the share of so-called local content.
Vice President Dziubałtowski also referred to the September amendment to the Public Procurement Law, which introduces the possibility of less favorable treatment of entities from third countries. He emphasized that such regulations are of fundamental importance for the development of the domestic supply chain, in which Polish companies have the opportunity to play a strategic role.
Operation and Maintenance (O&M) Phase in the Baltica 2 Project
The second day of the conference was marked by a workshop entitled “People, Sea, Energy: The O&M Phase in Offshore Wind.” Experts from PGE Baltica took part in a meeting devoted to the operation and maintenance phase of the Baltica 2offshore wind farm, implemented by PGE and Ørsted.
The aim of the workshop was to draw attention to the critical importance of the operation phase in the entire life cycle of an offshore farm – it is this stage that determines the safety, reliability, and efficiency of the installation for the next three decades.
The project partners also shared their experiences related to recruitment planning and the preparation of qualified teams to work in this phase, emphasizing the key importance of competencies, specialized training, and the use of local human resources.
The media partner of the Conference is BalticWind.EU
Source: PGE
