The company has secured a preliminary licence to build the 200 MW electrochemical energy storage facility in the village of Żarnowiec, in Poland's northern Pomorskie province, state news agency PAP reported.
Located next to PGE’s Żarnowiec Power Plant, 10 kilometres from the Baltic Sea, the facility will have a capacity of over 820 MWh, officials said.
It will be the biggest project of its kind in Europe, according to PGE's CEO Wojciech Dąbrowski.
Moreover, the new facility will be linked to the Żarnowiec Power Plant, giving rise to a 921 MW innovative hybrid installation with a capacity of over 4.6 GWh.
According to PGE, the installation will ensure "safe systemic integration of new renewable sources of energy, contribute to the stabilisation of the energy system and improve Poland’s energy security.”
The company plans to have 800 MW of new, domestically based energy-storage facilities by 2030, reporters were told.
PGE already has a 100 MW wind farm 30 kilometres from Żarnowiec and a licence to build offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea, with a combined power output of 3.5 GW, officials said.
The Warsaw Stock Exchange-listed, state-controlled energy giant produces coal- and renewable-based power for 5.4 million customers, the PAP news agency reported.
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Source: IAR, PAP, forsal.pl