PGE Baltica from the PGE Group has selected a company that will perform of the tasks of a contract engineer for the construction of an operational and maintenance base in Ustka. In the resolved tender, the most advantageous offer was submitted by Sweco Polska.
– We are getting closer to starting construction work on our premises in the Ustka port. Modern facilities built to be built there will serve the future offshore wind farms. In parallel with starting cooperation with the contract engineer, we are finalizing the tender procedures related to the selection of the general contractor. Our goal is to start the construction of the Ustka base in the spring of this year – commented Bartosz Fedurek, CEO of PGE Baltica.
The tasks of the contract engineer include supervision over the detailed design and construction of the O&M (operation and maintenance) base, both in terms of buildings, reconstruction of the quay, and the entire infrastructure necessary for the operations of the base.
The new PGE Baltica facility in Ustka will be built on an area of approx. 2.3 ha on the western side of the Słupia River. They will consist of an administrative building, a warehouse building, a maneuvering area and a quay, where service units will moor to transport crews to the offshore wind farm area (so-called CTV – crew transfer vessels). The planned commissioning of the O&M base is the fourth quarter of 2026.
The PGE Group’s offshore wind portfolio consists of eight offshore wind farm projects in various stages of development with a total capacity exceeding 7 GW. The most advanced of them – Baltica 2 with a capacity of 1.5 GW with a planned commissioning date in 2027 – is being implemented in cooperation with Ørsted. In addition, by 2030, PGE and Ørsted plan to launch the 1 GW Baltica 3 offshore wind farm. After 2030, PGE Baltica plans to start construction of the Baltica 1 offshore wind farm with a capacity of approx. 0.9 GW. Thanks to the development of new areas in the Baltic Sea, the PGE Group will be able to build more offshore wind farms by 2040. PGE will operate the first offshore power plants from its operational and service base in Ustka.
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