State-owned PGE, the most important energy producer in Poland, stated the 1,366-MW PGE Gryfino Dolan Odra energy station has entered industrial operation. The power is now the nation’s largest gas-fired energy plant.
Officers on Nov. 8 stated the station will provide about 5% of Poland’s electrical energy. PGE officers stated the plant is “one of the trendy in Europe.” The funding “will strengthen Poland’s vitality safety and guarantee a secure vitality provide for greater than 3 million households,” Dariusz Marzec, PGE’s CEO, stated throughout Friday’s launch ceremony.
The PGE Gryfino Dolna Odra energy station represents an funding of greater than 3.7 billion zloty ($915 million). It’s positioned within the West Pomerania province in northwest Poland. The plant options two items, every with 683 MW of technology capability.
PGE officers stated the plant’s nominal effectivity exceeds 63%. Officers stated it’s at the very least 70% extra environment friendly than older coal-fired items. Poland nonetheless will get about two-thirds of its electrical energy from burning coal, though the nation in recent times has shifting towards lower-emission sources of energy, together with nuclear.
The brand new plant “has been designed to fulfill essentially the most stringent emission limits,” in response to PGE. The plant has an emission charge estimated at 330g carbon dioxide (CO2) per kWh of generated electrical energy, which is nearly 3 times decrease than in coal-fired items.
Miłosz Motyka, the nation’s deputy local weather minister, stated the brand new facility will “not solely have a direct impression on the soundness of the electrical energy system, i.e. on safety, however can also be one other step within the transformation of our financial system.”
“Fuel funding is an important a part of the vitality transition and the transfer in the direction of local weather neutrality,” stated Robert Kropiwnicki, deputy minister of state property. “We’re continuously increasing the RES [renewable energy] system.” Kropiwnicki famous, although, that renewables “want parallel secure vitality sources working as a base, and in the mean time there isn’t a extra versatile capability than gasoline capability.” Renewable vitality accounted for about 26% of Poland’s energy technology in 2023.
Poland prior to now week wanted to import vitality from neighboring nations, together with Germany, Sweden, and Ukraine as a scarcity of wind led to a decline in vitality manufacturing from wind generators, in response to Enterprise Insider Polska.
Polish authorities officers have stated they help a technique to section out coal-fired energy technology and cut back carbon emissions, and have pledged help for growing renewable and nuclear energy. The nation at current has no nuclear energy vegetation, and officers have stated it would doubtless be one other decade earlier than any reactors are on-line in Poland.
Pure gasoline, in the meantime, is predicted to extend its share of the nation’s vitality combine from about 8.5% final yr to as a lot as 31% by 2030, in response to the Polish Financial Institute.
—Darrell Proctor is a senior editor for POWER (@POWERmagazine).
