The percentage of refusals to connect new RES installations to the grid is growing extremely fast. This is another of the problems facing the renewable energy market.
As WysokieNapiecie.pl.pl reports – citing statistics from the Energy Regulatory Office – in 2023, as many as 84 GW of RES projects were not connected to the grid. Considering that in 2020 the scale of connection refusals was 6 GW, the change is downright huge.
The data shows that 41.8 GW of refusals were justified by technical conditions, 17.8 GW by economic conditions and the remainder by both factors.
This is undoubtedly a considerable problem, the solution to which – just as in the case of green energy plant shutdowns – is not easy, as it requires considerable expenditure on the modernisation and expansion of the grid.
It is true that operators are already working on this, but their pace is slower than the dynamics of RES development.