Repowering Poland

Repowering Poland

Thomas Hartwig

Published
12/2022 by Thomas Hartwig

The Polish government is planning a 13-gigawatt market for the expansion of renewable energies by 2027. To this end, over 30 billion euros in tender volumes are to be auctioned in the next 5 years.

The plan is mainly based on the realisation of further projects in the field of solar energy. With a total of 9 GW, half of the projects with a size of up to 1 MW and half with a size of over 1 MW are to be auctioned. In addition, there are onshore projects for a total of 3 GW and 1 GW from biogas and landfill gas.

In total, 30.2 billion euros are to be tendered. Already in the coming year 2023, the planned tender volume amounts to 8.7 billion euros. In the following years 2024 to 2027, the projects are expected to amount to 3.5 billion euros (2024), 6.6 billion euros (2025), 5.3 billion euros (2026) and 6.1 billion euros (2027).
Poland will have realised around 12 GW of installed projects in solar energy by the end of 2022. Experts assume that in 2030 the capacities in the solar sector will be expanded to 30 GW.

Onshore wind turbines are installed in Poland with a volume of almost 7,000 MW. The previous record feed-in capacity was reached on 16 February 2022 with 6,718 MW. However, onshore expansion is currently faltering, and the current additions are only due to projects that were started before the introduction of the 10 H distance rule.

The Polish government is focusing more on offshore wind in the Baltic Sea. Currently, two offshore projects with a capacity of 1,440 MW are in the advanced planning stage. They thus represent a significant part of the first phase of the development programme for offshore wind energy in Poland with a capacity of 5,900 MW.

If everything goes according to schedule, the permits for the first two projects should be granted in 2024 and then the first kilowatt hours should be fed into the Polish grid in 2027.