2,5GW of offshore wind receive environmental permit in Poland
The PGE Group has been issued an environmental consent for two offshore wind farm projects namely, Baltica 2 and Baltica 3, with a total capacity of up to 2.5 GW. The decision gives PGE permission to start work on the basic design for both farms, located about 30 km north of the coastline at the altitude of Ustka and Łeba in the Pomeranian Voivodeship. The capacity of a single turbine to be installed at the project implementation stage may vary between 10 and 13 MW depending on the technological development and the variant chosen.
The environmental consent of the RDOŚ concerns two projects under the PGE Group's Offshore Programme: The Baltica-2 Wind Power Plant (Baltica 2), which in January 2019 received from Polskie Sieci Energetyczne (PSE) a proposal of technical conditions for connection to the NPS for 1498 MW and the Baltica-3 Wind Power Plant (Baltica 3) with a connection agreement with PSE for 1045 MW.
The first electricity produced by the farms in the Baltic can flow already in 2026.
On December 20, PGE and Ørsted signed a preliminary agreement describing the framework for cooperation in the transaction of acquisition of 50% of shares by the Danish company in the projects of construction of offshore wind farms Baltica 3 and Baltica 2 in the Baltic Sea.
The implementation of the PGE Capital Group's Offshore Programme involving the construction of offshore wind farms with a capacity of up to 2.5 GW will allow avoiding emissions of around 7 million tonnes of CO2 per year, and the green electricity thus produced will be able to supply as many as 4 million households.
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