Solar PV Market in Poland. Shall it start in 2013?

Poland’s neighboring with Germany, which the largest PV market in the world creates additional pressure and expectations for development of Polish photovoltaic market. It is expected the new renewable energy law to be approved by the government by the end of March 2013. According to Poland Photovoltaic Market: Outlook 2013 - 2018 due to the time necessary with obligatory notification process to European Commission (EC) final coming into force of the new renewable energy law would be a bit delayd.

Mandatory targets of the Directive 2009/28/EC on the Promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources set by EU for Poland are 15 % by 2020. According to Polish National Renewable Energy Action Plan (2010), intermediate country’s target is 11.9 % share of RES-electricity in gross final consumption of electricity by the end of 2015. Currently Poland gives one green certificate per MWh for electricity produced from solar power plants. This is not enough and will be changed with new RES law. Polish photovoltaic business is ranked at 25th place (amongst 40 ranked) at Photovoltaic Indices for February 2013, issue 36 at Ernst & Young Renewable Country Attractiveness Indices. More information about this promising market you may read here: Poland Photovoltaic Market: Outlook 2013 - 2018