The Energy Market Agency announced that total production of RES electricity in 2009 amounted to approximately 8.6 TWh, with total energy sales to final consumers at the level of 113 TWh. Those figures demonstrate that the shortage of RES electricity required by all energy suppliers in 2009 to satisfy the obligation to purchase that energy without the need to pay substitution fees amounted to approximately 1.2 TWh. The obligation for 2009 was 8.7% of total energy supply.
The Energy Market Agency announced that had the demand for energy not decreased in 2009 and maintained at the level of 118 TWh, the shortage of RES energy would have amounted to approximately 1.7 TWh, similarly as one year before. This means that the increase in RES installed capacity to date is lower than assumed during determination of mandatory RES energy purchase levels – in particular that the RES support scheme assumed continuous increase in energy demand.
Additionally, most of RES energy is produced in large, system power plants using co-firing technology. Co-firing of biomass with coal in system power plants and CHP plants currently yields 4.2 TWh of electricity in Poland. Hydro power plants produced 2.4 TWh. Wind amounted to 1 TWh of electricity. The remaining amount of RES-E was produced from biomass and biogas combustion in small sources and industrial CHP plants.
Source: The Energy Market Agency
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