{"id":310306,"date":"2025-10-30T11:22:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/?p=310306"},"modified":"2025-10-29T16:57:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T20:57:18","slug":"first-substations-of-baltic-power-installed","status":"publish","type":"noticias","link":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/news\/first-substations-of-baltic-power-installed\/","title":{"rendered":"First substations of Baltic Power installed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <strong>Baltic Power offshore wind farm<\/strong>, Poland&#8217;s first offshore wind farm, jointly developed by the Polish ORLEN Group and Canada&#8217;s Northland Power, has successfully completed the installation of its <strong>first two offshore substations<\/strong>. Both structures, located about 20 km offshore between \u0141eba and Choczewo, will collect the energy produced by 76 15 MW turbines and transmit it to the mainland via <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/news\/meta-expands-digital-infrastructure-with-the-worlds-longest-submarine-cable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">submarine and<\/a><\/strong> and land-based <\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The complexity of the installation<\/h2>\n\n<p>The two substations, named <strong>OSS East and OSS West<\/strong>, were manufactured in Poland, and shipped to Denmark for final outfitting and subsequent installation at sea using <strong>specialized<a href=\"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/news\/investigation-into-the-capsizing-of-a-floating-crane-in-sebastopol-in-the-south-bay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">floating cranes<\/a><\/strong>, supported by tugboats and other vessels. Each substation is designed to operate remotely and safely, without a permanent crew and, fully equipped, weighs some <strong>2,500 tons.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n<p>The consortium in charge of its construction consisted of <strong>CS Wind Offshore, Semco Maritime and several Polish companies<\/strong>. The complexity of the operation, which included simultaneous installation, maintenance and pre-commissioning work, was coordinated from the project base in \u0141eba, operational from April 2025. <\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Local impact of the project<\/h2>\n\n<p>Once completed in 2026, the <strong>Baltic Power offshore wind farm<\/strong> will provide up to 4 TWh of wind energy per year. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/articulo\/offshore-wind-energy-principle-operation\/#toc_heading-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wind power<\/a><\/strong> to the Polish electricity system, equivalent to <strong>3 % of the country&#8217;s current demand<\/strong>. It covers an area of <strong>more than 130 square kilometers<\/strong>, extending between \u0141eba and Choczewo, in an area comparable to the size of the city of Gdynia. <\/p>\n\n<p>The connection to land will be made by <strong>4 submarine export cables<\/strong> that will transport the energy from the marine substations to the land substation under construction in Choczewo, already in its final phase.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Next steps at the <strong>Baltic Power offshore wind farm<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p>With the marine substations already installed, the next critical phase will be the laying of submarine cables. More than <strong>20 vessels are already operating in the project area<\/strong> in an intensive campaign to connect all elements of the system. <\/p>\n\n<p>The <strong>Baltic Power wind farm<\/strong> represents not only Poland&#8217;s first step into offshore wind power, but also an industrial and strategic commitment to diversify its energy matrix and take advantage of the potential of the Baltic Sea as a clean and continuous source of energy.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/balticpower.pl\/news\/both-offshore-substations-installed-at-poland-s-first-offshore-wind-farm-baltic-power\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Baltic Power<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baltic Power completes a key phase with the installation of two marine substations that will manage the power from 76 offshore turbines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10019,"featured_media":310262,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categoria_noticias":[13026,13048],"etiqueta_noticias":[],"class_list":["post-310306","noticias","type-noticias","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categoria_noticias-energy","categoria_noticias-maritime"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/310306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/noticias"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/310306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categoria_noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categoria_noticias?post=310306"},{"taxonomy":"etiqueta_noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/etiqueta_noticias?post=310306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}