It is reasons to think Germany or Belgium the 2 neighbours first before Poland, when talk about solar energy storage trends; But benifits by the core geographical location and Trans-Eurasia Logistics; Poland is the topdog now and it is becoming the most potential country seems like to lead of solar industry in the EU
Big solar project one by one in Poland
Recently, Solar storage developer Pacific Green has agreed to acquire two large energy storage projects under development in Poland, totaling 400 MWh.
Poland is rapidly becoming a key energy storage market in Central and Eastern Europe. The two projects are located in the Warsaw area and southwestern Poland, respectively, and both have submitted grid applications.
On June 24, developer Lion Storage announced that its first battery storage project had received construction approval.
This project is located in the Vlissingen port area in northern Netherlands and is expected to be operational by 2026.
Earlier, on June 6, Poland’s largest power producer, PGE, announced an EPC tender for the country’s largest planned energy storage project to date, with an estimated project size of 263 MW/900 MWh.
The capacity market is likely to support the main growth of Poland’s energy storage industry. LCP Delta analysts pointed out that Poland “seems poised to lead electrochemical energy storage in Eastern Europe.”
LCP Delta’s Silvestros Vlachopoulos and Jon Ferris wrote that as of 2023, 9 GW of energy storage projects had been granted grid connection permits, while 16 GW of energy storage projects were registered in the ongoing capacity market auction at that time.
Nevertheless, as of the end of 2023, the country had only about 10 MW of battery storage projects connected to the grid. However, a series of reforms encouraged more companies to participate in the capacity market.
In the first capacity market auction held in 2022, four energy storage projects received contracts totaling 150 MW.
Currently, regulatory efforts are aimed at creating a better market environment for deploying larger-scale energy storage projects through measures such as more volatile electricity prices and subsidy policies.