RWE is constructing solar farms with a combined capacity of more than 100 MWac across Poland. The first project has now been commissioned, the Bojanowo East ground-mounted photovoltaic farm with a capacity of 8.5 MWac which is located in the Wielkopolskie region in central Poland, where RWE has installed more than 17 800 solar modules.
Katja Wünschel, CEO of RWE Renewables Europe & Australia: “Bojanowo East is a great milestone for RWE’s solar expansion in our Polish core market. It is the first project in a whole series of solar parks we are currently building across the country to be put into operation. We leverage Poland’s sunny conditions with good locations for solar energy and are keen to further support the Polish energy transition.”
The current solar projects are spread around in all parts of the country and range from ground-mounted systems at less than one MWac to large solar parks at more than 10 MWac. As sustainability is key to RWE’s growth strategy, the company is working with the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan to carry out a biomonitoring pilot project which will study how favourable conditions for biodiversity can be created at solar farms. The company has therefore put pro-environmental treatments in place at ten selected photovoltaic farms in Poland to provide a beneficial habitat for insects.
