As announced yesterday, PGE Group and Ørsted have signed contracts with Navantia-Windar and Orient Cable. They will supply foundations and internal cables for the Baltica 2 project, which is one of the phases of the Baltica Offshore Wind Farm. This will include 77 monopiles, which will be built at a factory in Fene (A Coruña province in Spain).

The contract includes 1.5 million man-hours of work to be completed in about two years. Its implementation will begin in the summer of 2024 and will generate about 450 jobs at the factory located in Fene.

Four monopiles will be used for offshore substations, and the rest for wind turbines. The monopiles will have a maximum length of 110 meters, while their weight will reach 2,000 tons and their diameter will be over 11 meters.

In April of this year, PGE and Ørsted reached an important milestone on the way to the Baltica 2 project with a capacity of about 1.5 GW. At that time, they signed the first of the contracts for the supply of a key component - a contract for the supply of wind turbines. Then, in June, they signed a contract for the supply of offshore transformer stations. The next step is the signing of further contracts for Baltica 2 by a joint venture formed by PGE Baltica of the PGE Group and Ørsted, which are implementing the Baltica Offshore Wind Farm project. The Navantia-Windar consortium will supply the foundations - monopiles, the largest of which exceed 100 meters in length and weigh more than 2,000 tons. Orient Cable (NBO), on the other hand, will supply 66 kV underwater internal cables with a total length of about 170 km, which will connect the turbines to marine transformer stations.

Ørsted and PGE plan to complete construction of the Baltica 2 stage, with a capacity of about 1.5 GW, by the end of 2027, and the Baltica 3 stage, with a capacity of about 1 GW, by the end of 2029. The investors are yet to make a final investment decision (FID). Baltica 2 and Baltica 3 will form the Baltica Offshore Wind Farm with a total capacity of 2.5 GW, which will significantly contribute to the transformation of Poland's energy sector by providing green energy to nearly 4 million households in Poland.