Equinor and Polenergia with another key contract for Bałtyk 2 and Bałtyk 3 projects

Equinor and Polenergia have signed another important contract for their offshore wind farm projects Bałtyk 2 and Bałtyk 3. The contract is for horizontal directional drilling (HDD) in the landfall area for both projects. The contractor is the Dutch company Visser & Smit Hanab. The signed agreement is another contract bringing Equinor and Polenergia closer to the next stage of the projects - the start of construction.

Visser & Smit Hanab, within the signed contract, will perform four HDD and install four cable ducts to install export cables and bring power onshore. The company has extensive experience and has been specialized in trenchless technology and above- and underground pipeline and cable infrastructure for more than 150 years.

Morska farma wiatrowa Dogger Bank. Źródło: Equinor / Polenergia

About Bałtyk projects

The offshore wind farm projects Bałtyk 2 and Bałtyk 3 are being developed in the first phase of offshore wind energy development in Poland. The projects are located in the Polish exclusive economic zone of the Baltic Sea, between 22 and 37 kilometers from the coastline. The first energy from the Bałtyk 2 and Bałtyk 3 offshore wind farms is expected to flow into the grid as early as 2027, the commercial phase of their operation is planned from 2028.

In the next phase of offshore wind power development in Poland, Equinor and Polenergia are developing the Bałtyk 1 project, which will be 81 kilometers offshore. Bałtyk 1, with a capacity of up to 1560 MW, is the project of the largest wind farm in the Polish part of the Baltic Sea, which is being prepared for auction in 2025.

The three Bałtyk offshore wind farms has the potential to power more than 4 million Polish households with green energy.

Źródło: Equinor / Polenergia

Three Baltic offshore wind farms will power more than 4 million households with green energy.
You can learn more about the Equinor and Polenergia projects in person - at the “Baltic Offshore Wind Farm Information Center”, which the two companies have launched in Łeba. Offshore wind energy is also the subject of the exhibition “Baltic. Sea of Green Energy,” which Polenergia and Equinor opened at the National Maritime Museum in Gdańsk.