Poland to be home to solar-wind gigafarm
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In a turbulent energy market, Płock-based Lewandpol has done a difficult thing: it has borrowed PLN 866 million from four financial institutions to build a giant solar-wind farm on a post-mining site near Konin.
Lewandpol's advisors argue that Kleczew is the first such large-scale project in Poland to combine photovoltaic and wind installations. The first stage, the construction of which is already well advanced, envisages 193 MW of panels and wind turbines with a capacity of around 12 MW. Subsequent stages envisage the expansion of the power plant to approximately 250 MW in the solar part and the addition of additional wind turbines and energy storage facilities.
"The potential for expansion with additional wind turbines depends on the liberalization of the distance law and the regulations regarding the sharing of the cable by several RES installations. As for energy storages, today their construction without support instruments is not yet an attractive venture," Michał Lewczuk, partner at Ergy, an asset manager in the RES sector, explained.
