{"id":79713,"date":"2026-05-11T12:21:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/79713\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:21:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:21:14","slug":"first-foundations-installed-at-1-5-gw-polish-offshore-wind-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/79713\/","title":{"rendered":"First Foundations Installed at 1.5 GW Polish Offshore Wind Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Major offshore construction work has started on the 1.5 GW Baltica 2 offshore wind farm, developed by \u00d8rsted and PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna, as Van Oord has installed the first monopile foundations at the project site in the Polish Baltic Sea.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Baltica-2-monopiles_-photo-Van-Oord-768x576.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Van Oord<\/p>\n<p>The offshore installation campaign, for which Van Oord is using its vessels Aeolus and Svanen, will see a total of 111 monopiles installed: 107 for wind turbines and four for offshore substations. The work will be underway until the fourth quarter of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The monopiles for Baltica 2 are being supplied by two companies, EEW and Steelwind, with the secondary steel being delivered by the Baltic Industry Group (Grupa Przemys\u0142owa Baltic) and Smulders.<\/p>\n<p>The monopiles are approximately 100 metres long, measure more than 10 metres in diameter and weigh around 1,500 tonnes each.<\/p>\n<p>The 1.5 GW offshore wind farm will feature 107 Siemens Gamesa 14 MW turbines, which will be installed by Cadeler and Fred. Olsen Windcarrier.<\/p>\n<p>Located around 40 kilometres off the Polish coast near Ustka, Baltica 2 is scheduled to enter full operation in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The offshore wind farm secured a 25-year inflation-protected contract for difference (CfD) with the Polish state in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u00d8rsted and PGE took the final investment decision (FID) for the 1.5 GW project in January 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/OW.biz-img-white-bckgrnd-1024x538.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Reach the offshore wind industry in one go!<\/p>\n<p>offshoreWIND.biz is read by thousands of offshore wind professionals every day.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Increase your visibility with banners, tell your story with a branded article, and showcase your expertise with a full-page company profile in our offshore wind business directory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Follow offshoreWIND.biz on:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Major offshore construction work has started on the 1.5 GW Baltica 2 offshore wind farm, developed by \u00d8rsted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[285],"tags":[11963,42429,287,11964,42430,42431],"class_list":{"0":"post-79713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orsted","8":"tag-baltica-2","9":"tag-eew","10":"tag-orsted","11":"tag-pge-polska-grupa-energetyczna","12":"tag-steelwind-nordenham","13":"tag-van-oord"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116555919433432360","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}