Abstract
One way to reduce CO2 emissions is to replace conventional energy sources with renewable ones. In order to encourage prosumers to invest in renewable energy, EU Member States are developing renewable energy subsidy programs. In Poland, in the years 2019–2020, the “My Electricity” program was implemented, co-financing was up to 50% of eligible costs (max PLN 5000, i.e., EUR 1111), and the total cost of the program was 251 million euro. During this period, around 400,000 prosumer installations were created in Poland, including over 220,000 prosumer PV Installations under the My Electricity program. The total power of the installation under the “My Electricity” program was 1.295 GWp with an average installation power of 5.72 kWp. It is estimated that the micro-installations will produce approx. 1.4 TWh of electricity annually. Depending on the replaced source of electricity (coal, gas, mix), in the next 30 years, it will help to avoid 26.2–42.7 million Mg of greenhouse gases calculated as carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2eq). The coefficient of subsidy expenditure from the “My Electricity” program was 194 EUR/kWp, and in the next 30 years, it will be 6.52 EUR/MWh. The investment in PV will save EUR 1550 million, which would have to be incurred for the purchase of CO2 emission permits.
Highlights
Consequent to population growth and economic development, the demand for energy is constantly growing—the International Energy Agency predicts that the demand for electricity will increase by 30% in 2040, compared with the base year 2016 [1,2]
According to the data as of 14 July 2021, the amount of funds spent was EUR 251 million; this value covers over 90% of the installations created under the program
Weather data centre of Poland according toweighted the weighted of photovoltaic installations
Summary
Consequent to population growth and economic development, the demand for energy is constantly growing—the International Energy Agency predicts that the demand for electricity will increase by 30% in 2040, compared with the base year 2016 [1,2]. There is growing public awareness of the urgent need to solve these most pressing environmental problems related to energy production. The consequences of these changes caused the 2015 Paris agreement to limit global warming to well below 2 ◦ C, compared with the pre-industrial era, in order to reduce the risk and damage caused by climate changes [5]. Many premises indicate that such a climate policy will determine future directions for actions [9,10,11], where solar energy technologies will have leading importance [12,13].
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