Poland to tender 3.2 GW of solar by end of following year

• The government expects to acquire 1.5 GW of solar in this year's two renewables auctions as well as is approximating a more 1.7 GW in two rounds prepared next year.

The Polish Ministry of Climate has said it might assign 1.7 GW of solar generation ability in renewables auctions planned next year, in addition to the 1.5 GW of solar the federal government is anticipating to contract in this year's two auctions.

The federal government anticipates to tender around 800 MW of solar capacity in this year's round for projects up to 1 MW in scale and 700 MW in the tender for bigger facilities. The matching procurement rounds following year can safeguard 1 GW as well as 700 MW of solar, respectively, according to the ministry.

Renewables contributor Piotr Pająk, from the Gramwzielone.pl website, informed pv magazine the quantity of solar energy projects commissioned under the procurement program is most likely to boost as a result of lawful demands regarding exactly how far wind power projects must be from residential areas.

" In 2020 and also 2021 we ought to see, once more, [a] considerable variety of small PV projects [of] as much as 1 MW yet additionally we should see [the] initially huge PV projects awarded, as the supply of wind projects is decreasing because of [the] range policy that blocked [the] growth of new wind projects in Poland," said Pająk. "We might currently see an expanding variety of huge PV projects being developed in Poland."

In the last PV as well as wind auction for up-to-1 MW projects, solar safeguarded all the 750 MW ability designated. By contrast, wind controlled the last large-project exercise, albeit with solar projects featuring for the first time after wind farms had actually monopolized the first auction for 1 MW-plus renewables facilities, kept in November 2018.

Projects alloted under the procurement program safe and secure 15-year power supply deals.

Under its Energy Policy of Poland up until 2040, the government desires 20 GW of solar ability by that factor. Wind-- currently the most industrialized Polish renewables technology-- is predicted to hit 10 GW by 2040.

Grid driver Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne has stated the country got to 2,261.3 MW of solar ability at the end of July. A 7.8 GW solar ability target established for 2030 in the National Plan for Energy and Climate might in fact be reached by 2025, according to a report by the Instytut Energetyki Odnawialnej.