Van Oord has been contracted for the construction of the Baltica 2 Offshore Wind Farm, developed by Ørsted and PGE. The wind farm is located 40 kilometres offshore in the Polish area of the Baltic Sea.Van Oord will transport and install 111 extended monopiles, of which 107 will serve as foundations for wind turbines and the other 4 as foundations for offshore substations. Van Oord will deploy the offshore installation vessel Aeolus and the heavy-lift installation vessel Svanen for this project. The Svanen will undergo an upgrade this year. As a result of this upgrade, the Svanen will be able to install the foundations for the new generation 14 MW wind turbines used at the Baltica 2 offshore wind farm. Van Oord’s flexible fallpipe vessel Nordnes will be deployed to install rock at all foundation locations.
