Polish utility PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna (WSE:PGE) mentioned it elevated by 5.3% on the 12 months its technology from wind, photo voltaic photovoltaics (PV) and hydropower to a file excessive 1,931 GWh of electrical energy in 2022, backed by investments in capability.
The corporate is rising its renewable vitality capability to make sure its larger vitality safety and independence, CEO Wojciech Dabrowski identified in a press launch on Thursday. Inexperienced energy additionally means decrease electrical energy costs as a result of it isn’t burdened with charges for carbon dioxide emissions, he added.
The renewable vitality produced by PGE in 2022 can meet the annual demand of 860,000 households, or the electrical energy consumption of all of the residents of the Lodz province, the corporate famous.
PGE produces inexperienced vitality at 20 wind farms throughout Poland that includes 342 generators with a complete capability of 772 MW. The group additionally has 24 PV farms whose general capability, put in or within the final phases of development, will attain some 500 MW by the tip of 2023.
Hydropower provides 96 MW of capability coming from 29 amenities whereas the 4 pumped-storage vegetation with a complete capability of 1,543 MW not solely produce but additionally retailer electrical energy, supporting the soundness of the nation’s vitality system.
By 2030, the group foresees having 3 GW of PV capability, 1.7 GW of onshore wind farms and a couple of.5 GW of offshore wind farms within the Baltic Sea.
The group’s long-term strategic aim is to realize carbon neutrality by 2050, which it plans to perform by additional investing in photo voltaic, wind and hydropower.
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