Featured in Down to the wires 06-2024

Poland: Stepping up storage

With the alarming rise in the rate of solar electricity curtailment in PV poster boy Poland in 2024, the transmission system operator (TSO), if not the government, is facing the need to invest in its power networks.

By

Marija Maisch

10 Jun 2024

Poland has risen rapidly to place among Europe’s largest solar installers but its energy mix is still dominated by coal. | Photo: PSE

While coal dominates Poland’s electricity mix, a solar boom that topped 17 GW of total generation capacity in 2023 is outpacing grid capacity.Polish transmission system operator (TSO) PSE reported that 319.6 GWh of green power was curtailed – described as subject to “non-market redispatch” – in the first 127 days of 2024. That comprised 279.7 …

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