PGE Baltica – the most important events of 2025

In 2025 PGE Baltica focused on moving from planning to real preparatory work in its offshore wind farm projects. This year has brought considerable progress on the project in particular Baltica 2 – in the area of connection infrastructure construction, port-service facilities and production of key components for both offshore and inland installations.

The beginning of last year began with a very important event. A final investment decision (FID) for the project was taken in January Baltica 2, implemented by PGE jointly with Ørsted. This decision confirmed the project's willingness to implement and opened the door to the construction stage.

Work on connection infrastructure was also an important event that lasted practically throughout the year 2025. In the municipality of Choczewo, a terrestrial transformer station is created on the territory of almost 13 hectares, which will be used to extract power from offshore farms and transfer energy to the National Power System. Work began there in connection with the implementation of unexpanded HDD drills, which will allow to connect the sea and land part of the cable system Baltica 2. It is one of the most technically complex stages of the investment, carried out using modern technologies to minimise interference into the environment.

At the end of the year, key equipment was also delivered to the site of the land-based transformer station Baltica 2including power transformers. There's a switchboard facility in progress. There are already ready, among others, rail bridge gates, which allow to connect the station with KSE. Testing and commissioning of the land station was planned for the years 2026 and 2027, and the contractor of its start-up of the station – Polish company Enprom – was selected in December.

Infrastructure construction – from plans to implementation

Year 2025 passed under the production mark of components for the farm Baltica 2. Production plants left the first batches of monopals, and in Polish plants the production of additional steel elements necessary to equip foundations continued. In parallel, the assembly of key components of offshore power stations, including transformers, was conducted.

In this respect, 2025 should be seen as the moment of the start of the proper construction of offshore elevator projects, where planning has turned into production, assembly and executive work. Preparatory work of the project Baltica 2 At sea, they included a boulder shift operation from the location of future turbines and undersea cable route. The completion of these works was to pave ditches in the seabed, in which cables will be arranged. Ships equipped with specialized equipment were used.

National industry and supply chain involvement

The year 2025 was a period of launching a local industrial base for offshore wind energy projects. In Poland production and prefabrication of key structural elements for Baltica 2, including steel components intended for sea foundations and offshore power stations. National production facilities and offshore wind contractors were involved in these tasks. Anode cages and the so-called boat landings are produced in Tricity by the Baltic Industrial Group and suspended internal platforms are produced by Smulders in plants in Żarach, Łęknica and Niemodlin. Polish contractors work on the construction of the connection infrastructure – Polimex Mostostal is a co-sort of GE in the construction of a terrestrial transformer station, and the HDD tunnel connecting the sea and land parts of cables is implemented by a consortium of national companies ROMGOS Star Wars and ZRB Janicki.

The participation of Polish contractors and service providers included the production of structural elements, as well as the assembly and preparation of equipment for marine power stations and foundation systems. These activities confirmed the willingness of the national supply chain to operate large-scale investments and high technical complexity.

The involvement of national industry was strategic for the whole project. It strengthened the implementing facilities necessary for further implementation of offshore wind farms, entered an investment in the national energy security system and created lasting links between the project and coastal regions and industrial facilities. In this respect, 2025 should be considered as the moment of the actual launch of the local supply chain for offshore elevators involving PGE. Additionally, PGE Group company is already serious about increasing the share of domestic suppliers in the second phase of the development of offshore wind energy in Poland. One way to achieve higher goals of local content is to cooperate with Polish companies, including the shipbuilding industry, when planning to build a specialised fleet for the construction and maintenance of offshore wind farms.

In-service facilities – Ustka and Gdańsk as a permanent element of the system

In 2025 The mouth entered the actual implementation phase as an operating facility for PGE Baltica projects. In the middle of the year, construction work related to the establishment of an operational and service base, including the construction of O&M facilities and the adaptation of the coastal infrastructure to service units, began on the port site. The scope of the works was technical and functional, subordinate to the future operation of the offshore wind farm throughout its operation cycle.

Building a base in Ustka means permanently anchoring the project in a specific port and creating a permanent operational presence on the coast. This is a solution designed with a view to a multi-annual action horizon, including day-to-day service, maintenance and management of maritime infrastructure. The mouth will therefore function as an element of the offshore wind energy system rather than as a one-off or local investment. This investment for PGE Baltica is carried out by the DORACO Construction Corporation from Gdańsk, and the facility will primarily serve the offshore wind farm Baltica 2 – a joint PGE and Ørsted project. But PGE Baltica draws attention to the potential of Usta to use for subsequent offshore elevator projects.

At the same time, a modern installation terminal is being created in the Baltic Hub port, which will be used in the turbine installation phase. Baltica 2. The general contractor of the terminal is the Sopot NDI. Regardless of their use for their own needs, PGE and Ørsted will make available under the lease the space of the finished terminal to another built project – a offshore wind farm carried out by Ocean Winds.

PGE Baltic's success at the first offshore auction

In the first in Polish history of power auctions for offshore wind farms, Baltica 9. PGE Baltica also held talks about the acquisition of a neighbouring project previously implemented by RWE. The combination of these two areas will allow the construction of a offshore wind farm with a combined capacity of about 1.3 GW by 2032. This will definitely bring the PGE Group closer to achieving the strategic goal of the total capacity installed at sea by 2035.

Implementation priority and additional actions

The dominant direction of PGE Baltica activity was and are technical, construction and production work, directly related to the preparation and implementation of offshore wind farms. Activities such as information on-calls, consultation meetings or communication initiatives conducted, among others, in Ustka and Choczew are a necessary complement to the processes implemented.

At the same time, staff activities are carried out subject to project implementation needs, including, for example, recruitment to work in a desk database. The search for specialists and the expansion of teams are operational and result from the entry of projects into subsequent stages of implementation.

The year 2025 for PGE Baltica was a time when administrative and contract decisions began to translate into visible effects of works on the ground – on construction sites, in ports and production facilities – preparing projects for key installation stages planned for subsequent years.

In 2026 under the project Baltica 2 works will begin at sea – when installing foundations, marine transformer stations and laying cables. At the end of these stages, connection cables will be installed between turbine foundations and marine transformer stations. At the same time, PGE Baltica intends to step up intensively the plans for a new project called Baltica 9+, i.e. connected areas Baltica 9 with a differential contract from the December auction and the area taken over from the RWE which holds the right to a differential contract from the first phase. On the Polish Baltic it is still expected More intensive year.