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On 23 July 2024, the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management put under public consultation a new priority aid scheme entitled: “Energy storage facilities and related infrastructure for improving the stability of the Polish electricity grid”.
Poland's new rules state that energy storage facilities over 10MW require licensing to ensure they can provide services to Poland’s National Power System\. Facilities 10MW or smaller do not need licensing but do need to register with the transmission system operator or distribution system operator for their area.
The promise was issued by the President of the Energy Regulatory Office. PGE Group is working on the largest energy storage facility in Europe. The project obtained the first license promise in Poland for electricity storage.
Call for applications under the Scheme “Energy storage facilities and related infrastructure for improving the stability of the Polish electricity grid” will be launched already this year. Subsidy contracts are to be entered into by the end of 2025, while the period for spending the funds ends with 2028.
Polish utility PGE Group has launched a tender for the design and construction of a battery storage facility with a minimum capacity of at least 900 MWh. Meanwhile, Ukraine’s DTEK has completed the acqusition of a 532 MWh battery storage project in southern Poland. Image: Sandia National Laboratories, Wikimedia Commons From ESS News