State-owned PGE, the most important energy producer in Poland, stated the 1,366-MW PGE Gryfino Dolan Odra energy station has entered business operation. The ability 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 vital trendy in Europe.” The funding “will strengthen Poland’s power safety and guarantee a secure power 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 situated within the West Pomerania province in northwest Poland. The plant options two models, every with 683 MW of era 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 models. Poland nonetheless will get about two-thirds of its electrical energy from burning coal, though the nation lately has transferring towards lower-emission sources of energy, together with nuclear.
The brand new plant “has been designed to fulfill probably the most stringent emission limits,” in response to PGE. The plant has an emission fee estimated at 330g carbon dioxide (CO2) per kWh of generated electrical energy, which is nearly 3 times decrease than in coal-fired models.
Miłosz Motyka, the nation’s deputy local weather minister, stated the brand new facility will “not solely have a direct influence on the soundness of the electrical energy system, i.e. on safety, however can be one other step within the transformation of our economic system.”
“Gasoline funding is an important a part of the power transition and the transfer in the direction of local weather neutrality,” stated Robert Kropiwnicki, deputy minister of state belongings. “We’re consistently increasing the RES [renewable energy] system.” Kropiwnicki famous, although, that renewables “want parallel secure power sources working as a base, and for the time being there isn’t a extra versatile capability than gasoline capability.” Renewable power accounted for about 26% of Poland’s energy era in 2023.
Poland up to now week wanted to import power from neighboring international locations, together with Germany, Sweden, and Ukraine as a scarcity of wind led to a decline in power manufacturing from wind generators, in response to Enterprise Insider Polska.
Polish authorities officers have stated they assist a method to section out coal-fired energy era and cut back carbon emissions, and have pledged assist for growing renewable and nuclear energy. The nation at current has no nuclear energy vegetation, and officers have stated it should seemingly 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 power combine from about 8.5% final 12 months to as a lot as 31% by 2030, in response to the Polish Financial Institute.
—Darrell Proctor is a senior editor for POWER (@POWERmagazine).
