Poland’s Institute for Renewable Vitality says the nation’s mixed photo voltaic capability practically reached 20.7 GW by the top of November 2024, placing it on monitor to hit 21 GW by year-end. The institute’s evaluation signifies utility-scale tasks are driving Poland’s photo voltaic growth and can proceed to take action.

January 24, 2025
Patrick Jowett

Poland’s cumulative put in PV capability is predicted to have surpassed 21 GW by the top of 2024, based on figures from the nation’s Instytut Energetyki Odnawialnej (IEO).

Grzegorz Wiśniewski, president of the board of the institute, instructed pv journal that complete capability was virtually 20.7 GW on the finish of November 2024, indicating that the 21 GW threshold needs to be handed as soon as full statistics for final 12 months turn into out there.

If this materializes, Poland can have added round 4 GW of recent capability in 2024, in comparison with 4.9 GW in 2023, representing a progress fee of 23%, based on IEO’s figures.

Wiśniewski mentioned the large-scale section was the most important contributor to the expansion of Poland’s photo voltaic market final 12 months, persevering with a pattern which first started in 2023 when the prosumer market started to shrink.

“One of many causes for large-scale challenge improvement, other than economic system of scale and low value, is the chance for grid connection to Polish TSO, which may host extra new PV capability than Polish DSO,” Wiśniewski added.

In November, a report from the IEO discovered virtually 4,100 photo voltaic tasks with a mixed capability in extra of 19 GW are prepared for implementation in Poland. Wiśniewski mentioned that judging by the quantity of tasks which have been issued with grid connections or constructing permits, photo voltaic capability in Poland ought to attain 25 GW by the top of this 12 months and move 30 GW by the top of subsequent 12 months.

A problem for the sector shall be coping with curtailment of solar energy skilled in summer season, when potential PV technology is increased than demand. IEO’s figures recommend 2024 noticed roughly 600 GWh of PV energy curtailed, with electrical energy costs unfavourable for nearly 200 hours. Wiśniewski mentioned on the Photo voltaic Vitality Expo in Warsaw final week that Polish district heating corporations are investing in inexperienced electrification by means of electrical energy boilers and thermal vitality storage, together with seasonal vitality storage, shall be key.

Wiśniewski additionally mentioned that as a result of excessive value of electrical energy for trade in Poland, the nation would profit from simplified grid connections for business and industrial (C&I) prospects and enhancements within the direct line regulation. 

Poland’s newest renewables public sale, held in December, authorised 126 photo voltaic tasks higher than 1 MW at a most value of PLN 334.77 ($83.31)/MWh and 72 photo voltaic tasks of not more than 1 MW at a most value of PLN 388/MWh.

The sixth version of the Polish authorities’s residential photo voltaic and storage rebate scheme, with a complete funds of PLN 400 million, ran between September and December 2024.

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