Resting on the Baltic beach near Łeba, you can finally see the first sea wind turbines, installed near the Polish coast. 76 15 MW windmills, everyone is to start supplying energy on land next year.
When I visited Gdynia in November last year, I saw a powerful Svanen, a ship for the installation of foundations for sea windmills. The crane made an amazing impression because he was really tall, he measures over 120 meters. This view worked on the imagination, because only then it was possible to imagine how large turbines would stand in our part of the Baltic.
In the following months, the ship began arranging for Baltic Power – Orlen and Northland Power Monopale, i.e. the foundations on which the first powerful wind towers up to 120 meters. When we add 115 meters long shovels and foundations, this construction measures over 250 meters, i.e. it is higher than the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, which, together with the needle, is 237 meters.
Sitting on the beach in Kopalin last weekend, I was happy to see the first winding windmills in our part of the sea. Earlier I was able to see the Baltic Offshore Wind farms near the capital of Denmark, as well as at the German island of Rugia. However, our Polish windmills gave me undisguised pleasure.
Not only that these are the largest and most modern sea turbines in Europe, with 15 MW, this is also the beginning of a new chapter in our power electricity.
In the coming months, PGE will start putting its turbines together with Orsted, followed by Equinor and Polenergia, and in the queue there are also projects implemented by RWE and Ocean Winds. Until 2030 as part of the so -called The first phase in the Baltic Sea will stand with 5.9 GW wind farms. At the same time, preparations for the construction of phase II projects are underway, which are located on plots much further from our coast.
The construction of a marine wind energy will not only give us green energy, which we will need, because in the coming years further coal power plants will be turned off. The development of offshore winds is also an opportunity for the Polish economy. For example, in the first Baltic Power farm being built just being built, gondolas will be installed in Szczecin, and Tele-Fonika will deliver submarine cables. In subsequent projects, as well as in the second phase of the development of wind farms, the participation of Local Content will be definitely greater.
One of the key elements will include Trafostacji, which the Crist shipyard will prepare for the Ocean Winds and PGE BC-Wind farm building. The Baltic Industrial Group not only wants to build towers for sea windmills, but also equip the ships used in the construction and servicing of farms. The estimates of the Polish Wind Energy Association show that in this new sector of the economy there will be from 50 to even 100,000. new jobs in the coming years.
