VSB opens Baranów-Rychtal Wind Farm

The Baranów-Rychtal Wind Farm was constructed and is managed by VSB Energie Odnawialne Polska, a company of VSB Group, which has for 15 years been actively and efficiently contributing to the energy transition process, first of all in the sector of wind and solar energy.

The Group operates in multiple European countries and it creates and transforms the energy-related reality, first of all through the prism of local cooperation with self-government public authorities and companies — it is on these entities that the success of the activities undertaken largely depends.

The capacity of the Baranów-Rychtal Wind Farm is 42.6 megawatts (MW). It consists of 11 wind turbines in total — ten Nordex N131 3.9 MW turbines and one Nordex N117 3.6 MW turbine. All of them generate green electricity.

“Each new wind farm project launched in Poland is another step towards achieving the goal of energy security and reducing the impact of the sector on the environment,” said Hubert Kowalski, Managing Director of VSB Energie Odnawialne Polska. “But first of all it is healthy and clean energy for approximately 36 000 Polish households, as the case is for the Baranów-Rychtal wind farm. Not only that – it is also a huge benefit for the atmosphere as a fully operational wind farm will allow us to reduce harmful carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to a level of approximately 45 000 tpy in comparison to conventional fossil fuels.”

The whole farm formation process, from first approvals, analysis, and tests through the design and formal stage to the im-plementation and start-up process, took over a decade in total. The building permit for the Kepno district was approved at the end of 2019, and then the farm won a renewable energy auction in 2020. The construction of the 11 turbines itself, in two mu-nicipalities, took a little more than 2 years, from 2021 to June 2023. “The thing we found a challenge was an extraordinary height of the turbines including their foundations, which we had to erect as much as 4 metres above the grade level at the turbine. The complex construction process did not encounter any serious problems though, except for summer thunderstorms which caused our work to stop for safety reasons,” commented Marek Matkowski, Project Manager for the Baranów-Rychtal Project at VSB.

In spite of appearances, the construction of a wind farm is a complex endeavour, the success of which depends on multiple factors. “The key is the relationships and cooperation with local business units and representatives of the authorities. For Baranów and Rychtal municipalities, this was the Kepno district and the Energy Regulatory Office (URE), as well as technological partners to whom we pass on our appreciation and thanks,” added Felix Grolman, CEO of VSB Group.

 

 

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