Spanish manufacturer Windar will invest EUR 70 million in a modern wind turbine tower, mast and foundation plant for onshore and offshore wind. Zarząd Morskich Portów Szczecin and Świnoujście already signed a preliminary land lease contract for the facility at Ostrów Grabowski with the Spanish giant.
Windar’s plant is yet another project following the offshore wind farm installation terminal and Vestas’ offshore wind farm components factory related to renewable energy sources that will be located within the Szczecin-Świnoujście port complex.
On 19 October 2023 Zarząd Morskich Portów Szczecin i Świnoujście S.A. and Windar Polska Sp. z o.o. signed in Szczecin a preliminary lease contract for land located at Ostrów Grabowski within the Port of Szczecin. 17 ha of land will feature a plant building wind turbine tower elements for onshore and offshore wind farms, foundations for onshore and offshore wind turbine towers as well as steel masts and towers.
“We are very happy that Windar selected Szczecin, and our city will host a plant so important for the offshore and onshore industry,” said Michał Przepiera, Vice President of Szczecin. “This is another important investment creating new jobs and consolidating our economy,” he added.
The Spanish company intends to start operations in the first half of 2026 and employ at least 400. Investment value is estimated at EUR 70 million.
The core part of the Windar’s plant will be the main building with four wind turbiner tower production lines. The building will also include a warehouse for raw materials needed for the production. A smaller auxiliary building for installation of internal elements will be built nearby. Assembly sites will occupy more than 3 hectares. Access roads and parking lot with 100 places will occupy more than 8 ha. Elements manufactured at the plant will be transported using sea transport.
With such investments, the Zachodniopomorskie province is becoming the key offshore hub in Poland and a strategic centre for offshore wind in the Baltic Sea. Province Marshal, Olgierd Geblewicz, has been long emphasizing the importance of wind energy for the region.
“I am most happy that we not only produce renewable energy, which is still short in Europe, but also components for the sector. Climate goals, laid down for instance in the European Green Deal, have not been achieved in Poland yet. We have a lot to do. Our region has always been a place where renewable energy, including wind energy, developed the fastest.The entire Western Pomerania exhibits great potential also for installation, operation and maintenance of wind turbines,” Marshal Geblewicz said for Rzeczpospolita in May 2023.