Equinor and Polenergia have utilized for environmental approval for the connection infrastructure of the Bałtyk I offshore wind farm because the undertaking is being ready for public sale in Poland in 2025.
The Bałtyk I offshore wind farm is certainly one of three initiatives collectively developed by Equinor and Polenergia within the Polish Baltic Sea. Bałtyk I, Bałtyk II and Baałtyk III may have a mixed capability of as much as 3 GW, permitting greater than 4 million Polish households to be equipped with inexperienced power. The 1,560 MW Bałtyk I is the most important wind farm below building within the Baltic Sea.
In accordance with the builders, Bałtyk I can be essentially the most superior offshore wind farm undertaking within the Baltic Sea, with the undertaking anticipated to profit from the perfect options developed within the building of the sooner initiatives, Bałtyk II and Bałtyk III. That is anticipated to considerably streamline the funding course of.
The Bałtyk I offshore wind farm can be positioned about 80 kilometres from the shoreline. Electrical energy from the undertaking will movement by way of cables ashore to a connection level on the Polish Energy Grid Krzemienica substation below building within the Redzikowo municipality. A land connection infrastructure hall of as much as 20 kilometres will run underground to protect tourism and scenic values and to minimise impacts on present land use.
The deliberate onshore energy exit can be carried out partially within the rapid neighborhood of the hall designated for the connection infrastructure of the Bałtyk II and Bałtyk III offshore wind farms. One landfall location utilizing trenchless know-how is deliberate for all three wind farms. So far, Bałtyk I has obtained a allow to put and keep cables within the offshore part and a grid connection settlement with the transmission system operator.
”A typical hall part for the cable bringing energy out of all three Bałtyk initiatives will considerably shorten the funding course of, make it simpler and cheaper,” Jerzy Zan, CEO of Polenergia, mentioned.
”The development of the Bałtyk I wind farm will profit from the perfect practices developed within the building of the sooner initiatives, Bałtyk II and Bałtyk III. This is applicable not solely to the frequent infrastructure hall, but in addition to the availability chain being constructed, the acquisition and coaching of future personnel, or the relations with native residents and native administration, that are essential to us. Funding continuity will permit a easy transition between the 2 phases of offshore power growth in our nation.”
HVDC Connection
The whole distance from the connection level and the whole deliberate capability justifies the usage of the primary offshore wind farm energy derivation utilizing direct present (HVDC) know-how. This know-how has already been put in on the largest offshore wind farm on the earth – Dogger Financial institution within the UK, the place the primary energy was fed into the grid in 2023. Equinor is without doubt one of the shareholders on this undertaking and would be the operator in its operational section. The expertise gained from the UK can be transferred to Poland. An utility to vary the connection circumstances for Baltic I to direct present know-how has already been submitted to the Polish Energy Grid.
”Now we have the best high quality applied sciences and options that we implement in our initiatives. Bałtyk II and III can be among the many first offshore wind farms in Poland, and they’re scheduled to come back on-line in 2027. Bałtyk I is essentially the most superior undertaking of the second section, scheduled for public sale in 2025. The inexperienced power that may movement from all three offshore wind farms will present secure renewable power for greater than 4 million households,” mentioned Jerzy Michał Kołodziejczyk, Nation Supervisor of Equinor in Poland.
The Bałtyk II and Bałtyk III offshore wind farms, because of come on-line in 2027, may have a capability of 1440 MW. The initiatives have already got contracted main suppliers of key elements. Siemens Gamesa has been appointed because the turbine provider, SIF Netherlands B.V. as the muse provider, and Hitachi Vitality as {the electrical} techniques infrastructure provider.
Equinor and Polenergia additionally have already got secured contracts for the design, manufacture, provide and set up of inside cables and export cables for each initiatives.
The inner cables can be equipped and put in by Seaway7. In flip, the contract for marine export cables was awarded to a global consortium shaped by Jan de Nul and Hellenic Cables. The funding companions additionally signed an settlement with DNV, which can handle certification of the offshore elements of the Bałtyk II and Bałtyk III wind farms.
This yr, building work will start on O&M base in Łeba, which, as a logistics and operations centre, can be accountable for the secure and correct operation of offshore wind farms for 30 years of their operation. The bottom will make use of about 100 folks. All three initiatives are anticipated to generate as much as 10,000 jobs.
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