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Marine wind farms: According to the government, we have to wait 15 years for offshore profitability
Author:Mariusz Dasiewicz
The first offshore wind farm in the Polish part of the Baltic Sea is expected to be established in 2025, but the technology of marine windmills is expected to reach full profitability only a few years later – This is at least the result of estimates in the Polish Energy Policy prepared by the government by 2040", writes the portal gramwzione.pl
While the project "Poland's Energy Policy to 2040", which the Ministry of Energy presented, points to the strong development of photovoltaics or offshore wind energy, the government wants to reduce the potential of windmills on land, which is currently the cheapest electricity production technology, confirmed by auctions conducted this month by the Energy Regulatory Office.
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Although wind investors confirmed in this auction that they are ready to sell energy at prices not available for other production technologies and significantly lower than the current prices on the wholesale energy market, the Ministry of Energy advocates in the "PEP 2040" project ultimately almost complete withdrawal of Poland from the production of wind energy on land.
Thanks to this month's auction in our country, further wind farms up to 1 GW are to be created in the coming years. If this happens and all the investments from the last auction are finalized, the installed capacity of windmills in Poland will increase to approx. 6.8 GW, which is close to the level indicated in "PEP 2040" for 2025.
According to the project "Poland's energy policy to 2040", the power of wind farms on land is expected to increase to around 7 GW by 2025 (they are to produce 17.1 TWh of electricity this year) – thanks to the auction conducted this month – but later wind power is to decrease only – to barely 0.8 GW in 2040, with only 1.8 TWh of electricity established at the time.
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The European WindEurope wind sector association was referred to the forecasts of the development of land wind energy in Poland contained in the "PEP 2040".
It doesn't make any economic sense. You are developing the potential to produce energy, but you are not using the cheapest generation source. Poland has just conducted its first auction for land wind energy and has obtained extremely low prices. This was also announced only a week before the beginning of the COP24 climate summit in Poland – it was sending bad signals. Poland really needs to analyze it again, says Giles Dickson, CEO of Wind Europe.
