A photovoltaic farm with an area of 375 football pitches has been launched in Przykona near Turek. Composed of more than 300,000 double-sided PV panels, the farm, located on the site of a former open-cast lignite mine, could become one of the largest photovoltaic installations in Europe.

The photovoltaic farm in the Przykona municipality took a year to build. It uses 308,000 double-sided photovoltaic panels, which will generate enough energy to power more than 100,000 households per year. The farm has a total installed capacity of 200 MWp and the facility will generate nearly 220 GWh per year. This will avoid the use of traditional fossil fuels to generate the same amount of energy and means that the Przykona power station will prevent more than 208,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year.

The investment in Przykona was carried out by EDP Renewables. This is not their first investment in the Wielkopolska region – in 2008 they built the 120 MW Margonin Wind Farm, which remained the largest wind farm in Poland for a decade.

The facility in Przykona, launched in September, is for the time being the second largest installation of its kind in Poland. With the potential to increase its capacity by an additional 40 MW, it has the potential to become the largest photovoltaic power plant in Central and Eastern Europe and one of the largest in Europe.

Currently, the largest photovoltaic farm in Poland is the facility located in the village of Zwartowo in the Pomeranian Voivodeship. Launched in September 2022, the farm covers an area of 300 hectares with a total of more than 378,000 photovoltaic panels. Ultimately, they are expected to provide green energy to around 153,000 households, which can be compared to meeting the energy needs of the inhabitants of a city the size of Gdańsk.

Arkadiusz Słomczyński