ANALYSIS: Polish onshore's new rivals

Suwałki wind farm in northeast Poland

Suwałki wind farm in northeast Poland

Poland’s onshore wind market has overcome a host of challenges to become one of the most attractive in Europe.

But from next year it will face two new rivals on the battlefield: offshore wind and PV.

The simplistic nature of the renewables law enacted by Warsaw in 2004 — which sees one Green Certificate (GC) awarded for each megawatt hour of renewable electricity produced, regardless of technology — means onshore wind and biomass co-firing have been the real beneficiaries, the latter supported by the country’s powerful coal lobby.

Some 440MW of onshore wind was added in 2011, and the 2012 figure will be far higher, with Iberdrola, RWE and E.ON pouring money…

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