Solar power in Poland

Solar potential in Poland

Solar power in Poland is a new sector of renewable power. While solar photovoltaics (PV) is in its infancy, non-electric solar thermal, used for heating water was widely used in about 1,200,000 square metres (13,000,000 sq ft) of solar thermal collector at the end of 2012. This corresponds to about 848 MW_th capacity (an increase of 19% compared to 2011). Solar collectors are the second, after the biomass heating plants, source of "green heat" in Poland. In 2012, Poland was ranked second in sales of solar collector installations among European countries (in 2011 - fourth place).^[1]

According to the Polish Institute for Renewable Energy, the total installed photovoltaic capacity in Poland amounted to approximately 6.6 MW_p at the end of September 2014.^[2]

List of photovoltaic systems in Poland with a capacity above 20 kW:^[3][4][5]

• 2,0 MW Cieszanów (under construction, as of November 2014);
• 1,84 MW Kolno;
• 1,64 MW Gdańsk;
• 1,5 MW Gubin;
• Photovoltaic farm in Wierzchosławice - 1.0 MW;
• 311 kW, Ruda Śląska, Upper Silesia Waterworks;
• 100 kW, Polkowice, NG2;
• 82 kW, Łódź, Voivodeship Specialist Hospital;
• 80.5 kW, Bydgoszcz, Frost Company;
• 71.76 kW, Jaworzno, Shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Jaworzno;
• 54 kW, Warsaw, Center for Photovoltaics at the Faculty of Environmental Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology;
• 40 kW, Bogumiłowice;^[6]
• 21.42 kW, Rybnik;
• 20 kW, Rzeszów, School of Law and Administration;
• 20 kW, Warsaw, Embassy of Japan.
• 2 kW, Warsaw, Online real production of a PV plant in Poland ;^[7]

The total photovoltaic power plants connected to the grid in Poland was at the end of 2012 about 1,290 MW.^[8] The Green Institute Foundation supports the development of solar energy in Poland running a campaign "Energy Democracy".^[9]

References

See also

• Energy democracy