PGE Group has contracted Polish company Energoprojekt-Katowice to prepare a conceptual design for the Baltica 1 offshore wind farm.
The 900 MW Baltica 1 is the third project in PGE’s Baltica Offshore Wind Farm portfolio. The first two, Baltica 2 and Baltica 3, are being developed by PGE and Ørsted and are in an advanced development stage.
For the conceptual design now comping up for Baltica 1, Energoprojekt-Katowice’s scope of work includes performing electrical analyses as well as cost and reliability analyses that will inform further design work on power evacuation from the 900 MW offshore wind farm.
PGE says the conceptual design aims to select the most optimal power evacuation technology and is an essential element of the investment process for the construction of the offshore wind farm.
The three Baltica Offshore Wind Farm projects are located in the Polish Baltic Sea, some 80 kilometres offshore coast of Łeba in the Pomeranian Voivodeship.
Construction of the 1.5 GW Baltica 2 is expected to be completed by the end of 2027 and the 1 GW Baltica 3 is planned to come online by 2030. The Baltica 1 wind farm will be commissioned after 2030.
The project already has a location permit and a connection agreement, and has completed the first full year of wind measurement and metocean campaign. This year, PGE Baltica started ground surveys for the onshore part of the project and contracted preliminary geotechnical surveys of the seabed as well as geological surveys for the HDD landfall, and also selected a geotechnical and structural designer for geotechnical surveys at the array site and along the export cable route.