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Poland signs EUR 150 mln deal for offshore wind-farm towers

20.01.2023 13:00
The Polish government has set up a joint venture company with Spain’s GRI Renewable Industries to produce towers for offshore wind farms, officials have announced.  
The Polish government has set up a joint venture company with Spains GRI Renewable Industries to produce towers for offshore wind farms, officials have announced.
The Polish government has set up a joint venture company with Spain’s GRI Renewable Industries to produce towers for offshore wind farms, officials have announced.Ionna22, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

The agreement was signed by Poland’s state-run Industrial Development Agency (ARP), Polish company Baltic Towers and GRI Renewable Industries, the strategic partner in the project, Polish state news agency PAP reported on Thursday.

Under the deal, a factory for offshore wind-farm towers will be built in the northern Polish city of Gdańsk, officials said. 

120 towers a year

The facility, which is set to cost over EUR 150 million and launch operations in 2025, will be able to produce more than 120 towers a year, reporters were told. 

The towers will be designed to hold the biggest offshore wind turbines, with a power capacity of more than 14 MW, according to officials.   

The Industrial Development Agency's CEO Cezariusz Lesisz told the media: “The new factory will meet the highest quality norms and technical standards demanded by key customers in the offshore wind-farm market.”

The planned facility in Gdańsk is intended to help meet growing demand for wind-farm towers, as well as “significantly increase” the role of Polish companies in the supply chain for offshore wind-farms being constructed in the Baltic Sea, officials said.    

The Spanish company GRI Renewable Industries, established in 2008, produces high-quality wind-farm towers in factories based in Spain, Argentina, Brazil, China, India, South Africa, Turkey and the United States, the PAP news agency reported.

(pm/gs)

Source: PAP, arp.ploffshore.cire.pldziennikbaltycki.pl