Ocean Winds starts work on BC-Wind service base in Władysławowo, a fishing port taking on a 30-year offshore role

The building and who is delivering it

The base will be the main operational, logistics and maintenance facility for BC-Wind. It is designed as a two-storey building with a mezzanine, combining office, welfare and warehouse space, including control and dispatch rooms for the day-to-day operation and monitoring of the wind farm.

The main contractor is Przembud Gdańsk, while Haskoning Polska designed the building and supported the permitting process, presenting a visualisation of the facility at the ceremony. The investment also covers upgrades to local pedestrian infrastructure, including new pavements and a lit pedestrian crossing.

The ceremony was attended by Emil Rojek, Deputy Voivode of Pomerania, Jarosław Kumięga of the Pomeranian Regional Government Office, Tomasz Herrmann of the Puck District Authority, and Roman Kużel, Mayor of Władysławowo, together with his deputy Kamil Pach.

Twenty nautical miles to the wind farm

Geography and existing port infrastructure decided the location. The distance from the port to the wind farm area is about 37 kilometres, or roughly 20 nautical miles, and a crew transfer vessel is expected to need around 70 minutes to reach it. That allows daily technician transfers without accommodating crews offshore.

For Władysławowo, best known as a fishing port, the change is structural. Servicing an offshore wind farm means permanent skilled jobs, regular vessel movements throughout the year and a facility that has to be maintained regardless of the tourist season.

Kacper Kostrzewa, Managing Director of Ocean Winds in Poland, set out the long-term nature of that presence.

– Władysławowo is a place where we will develop activity related to servicing the offshore wind farm for decades to come, working closely with local companies and building the competencies the offshore sector needs. We believe investments of this kind can create lasting value for the region, support new jobs and strengthen the local supply chain and new maritime specialisations – he said.

Turbines in 2028

The base fits into the wider project schedule. In December 2025 Ocean Winds closed financing of around 2 billion euros and took its final investment decision. Onshore works, including the grid connection infrastructure in Choczewo and the cable corridor, run through 2026, with offshore foundation and cable installation due in 2027.

Turbine installation is planned for 2028, with first power to the Polish grid in the same year and full operations expected around the turn of 2028 and 2029. The Świnoujście terminal is to be used for installation work.

Polish suppliers on the project

Przembud is not the only Polish contractor involved. CRIST Offshore is building the offshore substation, the engineering company P&Q is delivering the onshore substation and cable route, and Tele-Fonika Kable is supplying the medium and high voltage cables.

Ocean Winds presents this as part of building a domestic supply chain for offshore wind that should pay off in later projects. It is an argument made at every Polish offshore investment, and one that the second phase of the sector will test.

The farm itself

BC-Wind is Ocean Winds' first project in the Baltic Sea. It is located about 23 kilometres off the Polish coast, inside the exclusive economic zone, north of the municipalities of Krokowa and Choczewo. It will comprise 26 Siemens Gamesa SG 14-236 turbines on monopile foundations, with a total capacity of up to 390 MW.

In operation the farm is expected to supply the equivalent of the annual demand of more than 488,000 Polish households. Ocean Winds owns the project in full and is itself a joint venture between France's ENGIE and Portugal's EDP Renováveis.