Poland’s PV capacity reaches 4.46 GW

In the first quarter of the year, more than 500 MW of solar was deployed in the eastern European country.

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Polish grid operator Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne (PSE) announced on its Twitter account that the country reached 4,469 MW of installed solar capacity at the end of March.

In the first three months of the year, the newly installed PV capacity was around 533 MW. For comparison, in the same period of 2020 the new PV systems connected to the grid in the country had totaled around 400 MW.

Poland reached 3.9 GW of cumulative solar capacity by the end of 2020, up from around 1.3 GW at the end of 2019 and just 486 MW at the end of 2018. The exponential growth recorded last year was mainly due to the growing number of grid-connected solar parks.

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Poland may reach its 2030 target of 7.8 GW of solar by the middle of this decade, as outlined in the National Plan for Energy and Climate, according to a new report by the Instytut Energetyki Odnawialnej (IEO).

According to another recent IEO report, developers secured preliminary grid-connection approvals for 4.4 GW of solar capacity last year. The IEO also revealed that the combined capacity of all PV projects that secured preliminary grid permits had reached 10 GW by the end of December.

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