PGE Energia Odnawialna, the leader of the Polish renewable energy market, has completed the construction of the first stage of the large-scale photovoltaic farm PV Jeziórko. The estimated value of the investment is PLN 230 million. This is part of one of Poland’s largest photovoltaic farms with a capacity of 220 MW, which is being built on reclaimed land from a sulphur mine. The value of the farm after full commissioning is approximately one billion PLN.

“Today we are opening the first stage of one of the largest photovoltaic power plants in Poland – PV Jeziórko, with a capacity of 50 MW. Next year we will expand this power plant to 100 MW of installed capacity, and ultimately it will reach nearly 220 MW, which means that it will ensure the supply of green energy to about 125,000 households”, said Wojciech Dąbrowski, president of PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna.

The Jeziórko PV farm is being built in the municipality of Grębów in the Podkarpackie voivodship, mainly on reclaimed post-mining land of a sulphur mine. Nearly 100,000 monocrystalline bifacial solar panels (absorbing light bilaterally) with a capacity of 500 watts each have been installed in the first stage, which covers an area of about 50 ha, and will allow production to increase by several per cent beyond the 50 GWh per year assumed as standard.

The expansion of the mega farm in phase II will increase production to more than 100 GWh per year, and in the next step to 220 GWh. Once fully operational, PV Jeziórko will be the largest farm in PGE Energia Odnawialna’s portfolio and one of the largest in Poland.

PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna, the leader of the Polish energy market, is also the largest producer of green energy in Poland. PGE Energia Odnawialna, which is part of the PGE Capital Group and is responsible for RES generation capacity, has 21 onshore wind farms, 29 hydroelectric power plants, four pumped storage power plants and 30 photovoltaic farms in its generation portfolio, with a total installed capacity of approximately 2,530 MW.

Arkadiusz Słomczyński