The Regional Director of Environmental Safety in Gdansk has issued a call on the environmental circumstances for the connection infrastructure of the Bałtyk II and Bałtyk III offshore wind initiatives in Poland.
This enables the venture’s buyers, Polenergia and Equinor, to proceed the venture and begin engaged on the constructing permits.
“Along with his resolution, the Regional Director for Environmental Safety confirmed that we have now exercised all due diligence in designing the connection infrastructure. It has been deliberate in such a method as to attenuate the affect of the funding on the surroundings and the lives of native communities,” mentioned Marta Porzuczek, Director of the Environmental Safety and Sustainable Growth Division at Polenergia Group.
For the connection infrastructure of the Bałtyk II and Bałtyk III offshore wind farms, Equinor and Polenergia obtained an environmental resolution in 2019. The builders utilized for a brand new environmental resolution attributable to adjustments in some parts of the onshore a part of the funding, amongst different issues the placement of the exit of cable strains from the ocean to the land.
The connection infrastructure might be positioned within the municipalities of Ustka and Słupsk within the Pomeranian Voivodeship.
The ability output cable strains will run via the villages of Lędowo, Duninowo PGR, Pęplino, Bruskowo Leśnictwo, Bruskowo Małe, Bruskowo Wielkie, and Wielichowo. The connection level of each offshore wind farms to the Nationwide Energy System would be the current Słupsk-Wierzbięcino substation of the Polish Energy Grid.
Offshore works, together with the set up of inter-array cables and export cables, will start in 2026. The inter-array cables, with a complete size of as much as 200 kilometres and a voltage of twenty-two kV, will join the wind generators of every of the farms and the offshore substations.
Then again, 4 export cables with a complete size of 256 kilometres will carry 220 kV of electrical energy from offshore substations to onshore substations.
The cables might be laid on the seabed and buried, and the output of the offshore export cables to the shore might be carried out utilizing the trenchless technique, i.e. beneath the floor of the bottom, with out interfering with the coastal zone, together with the seashore, the builders mentioned.
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With a complete capability of 1,440 MW, the Bałtyk II and Bałtyk III offshore wind farms might be positioned within the Polish unique financial zone of the Baltic Sea, roughly 37 and 22 kilometres from the shoreline close to Ustka and Łeba.
The 2 720 MW offshore wind farms will characteristic Siemens Gamesa 14 MW wind generators with the primary vitality anticipated to move from the venture as early as 2027. The industrial stage of their use is deliberate a yr later.
“A easy transition from the strategy planning stage of the Baltic II and III initiatives to the stage of their growth is among the needed circumstances for the success of the vitality transition in Poland. Our two offshore wind farms, Bałtyk II and Bałtyk III, will present renewable vitality for greater than two million households,” mentioned Michał Jerzy Kołodziejczyk, President of the Administration Board of Equinor in Poland.
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