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

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 the performance of electrical analyses, including, among others, fixed and fault power flows, short-circuit analyses or preliminary harmonic analyses. At the same time, cost and reliability analyses will be performed, among other things. The resulting documentation will be used for further design work on power output from the Baltica 1 offshore wind farm.

The PGE Group’s Offshore Program calls for 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 about 0.9 GW, will join the Group’s portfolio. By acquiring new areas for development in the Baltic, the PGE Group will be able to build more 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 about 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 shoreline, 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, as well as the first full year of wind, sea current and ripple studies behind it. PGE Baltica this year began investigating the subsoil for the onshore part of the project and signed a contract for preliminary geotechnical studies of the seabed and geological studies for the land-sea drilling, and selected a geotechnical and structural designer for the subsoil exploration stage of the project and along the route of the export cable. The Baltica 1 offshore wind farm will be commissioned after 2030.

Source: PGE Baltica