A tender has been launched for a geotechnical investigation campaign in 2020 at PGE Baltica’s Baltica 2 and 3 offshore wind farms off the coast of Poland.
The tender, which was issued last month, aims to collect data that will provide further certainty on the ground conditions at the projects’ sites.
The wind farms will have a combined capacity of up to 2.5GW, of which Baltica 2 will total up to 1.5GW and Baltica 3 about 1GW.
PGE Baltica is being supported by Irish engineering consultancy, GDG, which has taken on the owners engineer role for the two projects.
GDG has so far helped with a range of activities including a detailed interpretation of geophysical data across the area, analysis of cable routes, foundation concept design studies and ground model development, as well as procuring the geotechnical site investigation for 2020.
GDG managing director Paul Doherty said: “Over the next 12 months, we anticipate to see further refinement of our technical understanding of the site with respect to metocean, wind and geotechnical data, which will yield enhanced cost and programme certainty”.
GDG is also tasked with mitigating the ground risk and ensuring state of the art analysis and design techniques are brought into the project to deliver the optimum levelised cost of energy.