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Get a quoteIn Poland, interest in energy storage investment has been evident for some time. Last year’s main auction of the power market, with capacity delivery for 2029, further bumped up the capacity of storage projects.
The Energy Regulatory Office said in a report last year on electricity storage in Poland that, as a result of the main power market auctions for 2021-2028 and the supplementary auctions for 2012-2025, contracts for energy storage with a total capacity of 9.5 GW were concluded.
Energy storage systems are a relatively new technology in the Polish capacity market. They have participated in two auctions so far: making their official debut in 2022 (with 2027 delivery year) and subsequently dominating the competition in the 2023 auction.
As expected, Poland’s latest capacity market auctions have highlighted a significant shift towards the battery energy storage systems (BESS) beside the fact that the de-rating factor has been significantly decreased.
Poland is emerging as a significant player in Europe's energy storage sector. The recent capacity market auctions in December 2024 highlighted a substantial shift towards BESS, with approximately 2.5 GW secured by new generation capacity market units, predominantly Li-ion energy storage projects.
The Polish Economic Institute reported that in the power market’s main auction, which was held in December 2024, storage capacity of around 2.5 GW was contracted, indicating that this was a 44 percent increase over 2023, in which the total contracted for batteries was 1.7 GW.
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