The largest photovoltaic farm in the Energa Group’s RES resources will be built in Przykona in the Turek district. The installation will produce electricity from solar energy for 30,000 households. The investor, Orlen Group, has just received a permit for the construction of the farm.

In the area where the farm will be built there was previously an opencast lignite mine and a power plant. Today, state-owned companies Orlen and Energa are using the site to build renewable energy sources. 

“The location of these projects in the Przykona municipality, on land recultivated from the Adamów lignite opencast mine, is strategically important. Not only do they replace the conventional sources previously operating there, but at the same time they make use of the transmission infrastructure that still exists. The land owned by Energa in the Przykona municipality has great investment potential by ensuring the recultivation of post-mining areas”, Orlen reports. 

A 31 MW wind farm is already in operation in Przykona. This year, a 20 MW PV Gryf photovoltaic farm will be launched at the same site. PV Mitra will be built next to it.

In the first phase of the PV Mitra project, a facility with a capacity of approx. 65 MW will be built, covering a total area of approx. 53 ha. The photovoltaic farm will use 85,000 modern, high-efficiency photovoltaic modules. The production from all three photovoltaic installations will be equivalent to a reduction in CO2 emissions into the atmosphere of approximately 124,000 tonnes per year. 

Construction of the facility will start in the middle of the year. PV Mitra in Przykona is currently the largest photovoltaic project of the entire Orlen Group to be implemented in Poland.  The expansion of the RES portfolio is the realisation of the assumptions of the Energa Group’s Strategic Development Plan to 2030 and the ORLEN2030 Strategy, which envisages an increase in the installed capacity in renewable sources to over 2.5 GW by the end of the decade.

Arkadiusz Słomczyński