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Poland Receives 47 Offshore Wind Applications At Baltic Coast

  • According to Ms Anna Wypych Namiotko, deputy minister of transport, construction and maritime economy, Poland has attracted 47 applications from investors interested in developing wind energy projects off its Baltic coast.The new concessions could help reduce the country's heavy dependence on coal for its power generation and move closer towards its EU obliged target to increase the share of renewable in its energy mix to 15.5% by 2020.To attract interest, Ms Warsaw extended the permits for offshore wind farms to 30 years from five and spread out fees over several years. It is also changing its renewable support plan, focusing more on solar energy, biogas plants, offshore wind generation and small hydropower units at the expense of biomass, old hydropower plants and onshore wind farms.
  • Mr Bogdan Gutkowski head of the Polish Offshore Wind Sector Society said that setting up Poland's first wind farm will take at least six years. Limited access to the national grid may curb its potential though unless the grid is strengthened.Meanwhile, Polish power company PGE plans to control 1,000 MWs in offshore wind farms by 2020 and add a further 1GW in the following five years.

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