Quoceant Support Ocean Winds to Engineer First Offshore Wind in the Baltic Sea

Quoceant has been awarded a contract with Ocean Winds to provide engineering support to their BC-Wind project off Poland in the Baltic Sea.

BC-Wind is a fixed wind project developed by Ocean Winds in the Polish Exclusive Economic Zone of the Baltic Sea, around 23 kilometres north of the coastline, near Krokowa and Choczewo. Once completed the BC-Wind farm will total 26 turbines with a total planned capacity of up to 390 MW.

Photo: Ocean Winds' Moray West Offshore Wind Farm, Credit: Ocean Winds

Quoceant’s scope of work covers a broad range of tasks from review of documentation, development of calculations and tools to support the Ocean Winds engineering team decisions to creation of detailed structural models to support understanding of the behaviour of different aspects of the foundations design. 

Quoceant will also deliver design scopes for temporary works such as the Transition Piece (TP) Covers and a monopile test tower for onshore testing and refinement of offshore monopile – TP assembly procedures, with solutions developed to meet the requirements of Ocean Winds and other project stakeholders.

This work follows Quoceant’s previous support to Ocean Winds across their Moray East and Moray West offshore wind projects.

Jon Benzie, Quoceant Co-Founder and Senior Engineer said: "I’ve headed up our work with the Ocean Winds team since 2019, our long-term relationship is testament to Quoceant’s ability to provide expert, responsive and reliable engineering support. We help bridge the gap between contractors and deliver on a range of design scopes across T&I, foundations and offshore substation work packages."

The wind farm is expected to deliver its first power in 2028 and, once fully operational, will provide clean, zero-emission electricity to nearly half a million Polish households per year.