RWE to build another wind farm in Poland

German RWE Renewables is to launch a new investment project in Opalenica by the end of 2015. The 17 megawatt plant is the company’s seventh wind power plant in Poland and will provide electricity for 21 thousand Polish households. The farm will consist of 7 turbines with a power capacity of 2.4 megawatt each, RWE informed. In 2014, Poland approved a draft law that laid out new long-term subsidies for renewable energy." After a period of insecurity regarding the final legal regulations, work on the new (renewables) law is currently being finalized," board member of RWE Polska Robert Macias said. “For RWE, our country is one of the key markets where the company continues to implement renewable energy investment projects,” he added. The new wind farm will bring the company's total installed capacity of wind farms to 214 megawatts and the total number of covered households to 225,000. The Opalenica wind farm is not necessarily to be the last project in Poland, but the company has not revealed any details about future investments yet. RWE has been present on the Polish market since 2008. The German company has got six wind farms in Nowy Staw nearby Gdańsk, Krzęcin and Tychowo in West Pomerania, Suwałki, Piecki and Taciewo in the Podlasie region.