Offshore wind consultancy OWC has identified significant geohazards that developers should address following a study of the geological conditions of the Polish sector of the Baltic Sea.
The findings of the study will be presented at an OWC-hosted webinar on 4 November, with the full report being published a week later on 11 November 2020.
OWC head in Poland Lukasz Sikorski (pictured) said: “We have identified numerous key potential geohazards such as boulders, shallow gas, geological faults, chalk and lateral variability of the soil conditions with some bedrock depth uncertainty.
“These are key hazards that developers should build into their site condition evaluations of prospective projects.
“Although Poland can benefit significantly from a well-established local construction industry that is more than capable of producing foundations such as monopiles and piles, the geology expected at the Polish Baltic Sea areas indicates that the type of turbine foundations to be used here should be carefully assessed.”
OWC is the offshore wind unit of Oslo-listed AqualisBraemar.