Photovoltaics has set a new record. On Tuesday, between 12 and 1 p.m., the power plants produced nearly 7,000 megawatt hours (MWh) of energy, the Instrat Foundation informed.
Thus, the result from September 7, 2022, which was 6,711 MWh, was improved. Now the power plants produced 6,996 MWh of energy in one hour. “It is known that the installations are growing (we have about 12.5 GW of installed capacity) and the values will jump every few days. However, beating last year’s record at the end of February is something new” – we read in the Instrat Foundation’s Twitter entry.
In recent days windmills also worked with historical power. On February 20, they produced 7,833 MWh of electricity in one hour. It was the result of the storms.
Photovoltaics is growing in strength
According to the data of the Polish Society for Transmission and Distribution of Electricity (PTPiREE), at the end of 2022 the number of all micro-installations connected to the distribution network of the Distribution Network Operator (DSO) amounted to over 1 million 210 thousand, and their capacity was over 9.25 gigawatts (GW). .
“The number of micro-installations connected by DSOs from the beginning of 2019 to the end of December 2022 increased more than 22 times (by 2,132%), with a simultaneous nearly 27-fold increase in the installed capacity of micro-installations. In the fourth quarter of 2022, DSOs connected to their grids over 33.5 thousand new micro-installations with a total capacity of over 375 MW.
In October last year, Deputy Minister of Climate and Environment Anna Łukaszewska-Trzeciakowska informed that the Ministry of Climate is receiving more and more signals regarding refusals to connect installations to the network RES. Łukaszewska-Trzeciakowska cited information from the Energy Regulatory Office, which shows that in 2017-2018 there were 260 notifications of refusals to connect to the grid, in 2019-2020 there were 1200 refusals, and in 2021-2022 – 3459 refusals, of which 3415 concerned PV installations.
The Deputy Minister of Climate explained that “this is at the same time a lack of sufficient network development on the one hand, and on the other hand we are a victim of our own success related to programs financed by the National Fund for Environmental Protection, i.e. photovoltaics (Mój Prąd – ed.), on the other hand high energy priceswhich encourage Poles even more to think about prosumer solutions.
A prosumer is a person who is both a producer and a consumer. It generates energy using its installation.
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