Belgian marine contractor DEME has secured a major role in Poland’s offshore wind expansion after winning three contracts covering foundation and cable installation work for the BC-Wind project in the Baltic Sea. The combined awards are worth €150m–300m, ($175m–$350m).
BC-Wind is being developed by Ocean Winds, the EDP Renewables–ENGIE joint venture, about 23 km off the Polish coast. With a planned capacity of up to 390 MW, the project is expected to produce enough electricity to power around 500,000 homes.
DEME will deploy its heavy-lift vessel Orion for the installation of 27 monopile foundations—26 for turbines and one for the offshore substation. The company will also handle both inter-array and export cable scopes, from engineering to offshore installation. The export cable package will be carried out together with Hellenic Cables, with DEME using its cable layers Living Stone and Viking Neptun. Offshore work is expected to take place in 2027–2028, following the project’s recent financial close.
The BC-Wind job builds on DEME’s longstanding cooperation with Ocean Winds, having previously worked together on several large European wind farms, including Moray East and Moray West in the UK, and Dieppe–Le Tréport and Noirmoutier in France. BC-Wind also marks DEME’s second offshore wind project in Poland, following its work on the Baltic Power wind farm.
