The 2026/2027 school year has begun at the Comprehensive and Technical Schools Complex in Ustka. This year’s opening ceremony, however, was particularly significant. For the first time, a class training students for the profession of renewable energy systems and equipment technician has been launched. The new course, supported by PGE Baltica, is intended to prepare young people for work in the rapidly developing energy sector, including offshore wind projects.

Twenty-seven students, including one girl, have enrolled in the first year of the new course. According to the school’s management, this is a major success, particularly given that it is a new educational programme. PGE Baltica had previously cooperated with the school, but the new specialist course was only launched in the current academic year.

– Recruiting 27 students to a new class is a major success for us. It is the result of the school’s efforts, our participation in job fairs and recruitment meetings, but also growing awareness among young people and their parents of the importance of the energy sector for the future of Pomerania, emphasised Katarzyna Ozimek, head of the Comprehensive and Technical Schools Complex in Ustka.

PGE Baltica: we will be involved throughout the educational process

During the opening ceremony of the school year, a partnership declaration was signed concerning training for the profession of renewable energy systems and equipment technician. The partnership between PGE Baltica, Słupsk County and the school is intended to ensure that students acquire knowledge and skills corresponding to the needs of the developing renewable energy sector.

Bartosz Fedurek, CEO of PGE Baltica, thanked the students for their trust and for choosing to begin their education on the new course. At the same time, he announced that the company’s involvement would go beyond the symbolic patronage of the class. The company plans to organise study visits, work placements and scholarships for the best-performing students.

– It will not be the case that you see us today and then we meet again only at the end, five years from now. We will be continuously involved in the educational process, said Bartosz Fedurek. The CEO of PGE Baltica encouraged students to put forward their own suggestions, comments and proposals so that the learning process could be as effective as possible and meet the actual needs of the future industry.

The new course could provide young people with a genuine pathway to a career in a profession of the future. This is particularly significant given that the development of the energy sector in Pomerania will mean growing demand for skilled workers.

Up to 300 permanent jobs in Ustka

Bartosz Fedurek recalled that around 100 people will be employed at the operations and maintenance base for the Baltica 2 offshore wind farm being developed in Ustka. A further approximately 100 jobs are expected to be created indirectly as a result of the base’s operations.

But this is only the beginning. PGE also plans to locate operations and maintenance bases in Ustka for further projects – Baltica 3 and Baltica 9+. Altogether, this could mean around 300 permanent and attractive jobs.

– No one will have to leave Ustka in search of a good job, stressed the CEO of PGE Baltica. For the students beginning their education, this offers the prospect of gaining qualifications in an industry that will develop literally in their immediate surroundings.

The energy sector set to transform Pomerania’s economy

Paweł Lisowski, head of Słupsk County, also spoke about the importance of energy investments for the region as a whole. As he noted, the development of the energy sector is already affecting the local economy and labour market. The number of enquiries from investors is steadily increasing, while the revival is also visible in the labour market. In the case of Słupsk and the surrounding area, both infrastructure investments and the development of new energy projects are significant.

According to the county head, these developments could also help reverse negative demographic trends. If, in the future, as much as 40% of Poland’s electricity were generated in the area stretching from Wejherowo to Kołobrzeg, the region could become one of the most attractive parts of the country both for employment and for doing business.

The launch of the new course in Ustka is therefore part of much broader changes taking place across Pomerania. For the 27 students who began their first year on 1 September, the new school year is also the beginning of an education in a sector that could become one of the region’s most important employers in the years ahead.

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