PGE Baltica (a PGE Group company) has signed a contract with a consortium of companies: Geofizyka Toruń, Przedsiębiorstwo Geologiczne Geoprojekt Szczecin and Projmors Biuro Projektów Budownictwa Morskiego, to perform geological surveys, including geotechnical and geophysical surveys and resultant documentation for the onshore – offshore drilling for the offshore wind farm Baltica 1.

The surveys, which will start in the second quarter of this year, will result in documentation that is necessary to make a soil model necessary for the proper design of the land-sea cable crossing for the Baltica 1 offshore wind farm, informs Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE).

The scope of work includes geological surveys, including geotechnical and geophysical surveys. With regard to onshore surveys, the contract includes: CPTU soundings, piezometric surveys, magnetometric surveys, seismic refraction tomography, electrical resistivity tomography and GPR surveys.

“Offshore surveys include CPTU sounding, reflection seismic, bathymetric surveys and sediment profilometer surveys. In addition, laboratory testing of soil and water samples taken during drilling is planned, the release reads.

With a capacity of approximately 0.9GW, the Baltica 1 offshore wind farm project is one of three projects currently under construction by the PGE Group in the Baltic Sea, located approximately 80km from the shoreline, roughly at the level of Łeba in the Pomeranian Voivodeship. The project already has a location permit and connection agreement in place, and the first full year of wind, sea current and wave tests behind it. The Baltica 1 offshore wind project will be commissioned after 2030.

The PGE Group generates 41 % of Poland’s net electricity production and its share of the heat market is 18 %. The Group estimates its share of the renewable energy market at 10 %.

Arkadiusz Słomczyński