Dutch offshore services provider Van Oord has secured contracts worth €500m ($534m) for the Baltic Power and Greater Changhua 2b and 4 offshore wind projects.

The projects will generate enough clean energy to power 2.5 million homes.

The first contract is related to Baltic Power, a 1.14GW offshore wind farm in Poland.

Van Oord has agreed to transport and install 78 foundations for the project, 76 of which will comprise a monopile and a transition piece, while two are foundations for the offshore substations.

The foundations’ transport and installation work will begin in 2024 and be completed in the summer of 2025.

Baltic Power is a joint venture between Polish oil and gas company Orlen and Canadian company Northland Power.

To be located 23km inside the Baltic Sea’s Polish Exclusive Economic Zone, the wind farm will generate 1.14GW of clean energy to meet the needs of 1.5 million homes in Poland.

In October 2023, the developers made the final investment decision on the project, which will begin operations in 2026. 

Van Oord secured the second contract from Danish energy company Ørsted for its Greater Changhua 2b and 4 project in Taiwan.

To be located off the west coast of Taiwan, the project will have a total capacity of 920MW and will produce enough clean energy to power a million Taiwanese homes annually.

The Dutch company will be responsible for the transport and installation of three export cables with a total length of 175km.

It will use its cable-laying vessel, Nexus. One of its trencher vessels, Dig-It, will be used to bury the cables under the sea floor.

Its hopper dredger Vox Apolonia will pre-excavate cable joint pits down to the necessary depth.

The cable-laying work is due to commence in 2024 and conclude in 2025.

Van Oord offshore energy managing director Arnoud Kuis stated: “At Van Oord, we are committed to the large-scale rollout of offshore wind. We are therefore proud that two clients trust Van Oord to support their development projects in the offshore wind industry.”