Horizons Sp. z o.o.

⭐🌲 ⭐Horizons Sp. z o.o. want to take a moment to express our gratitude to all those who have been part of our journey this year. 🥰To our dedicated Employees – thank you for your passion and tireless efforts that drive our mission to create a sustainable future. 😊To our valued Partners – your collaboration fuels innovation and progress in renewable energy. We deeply appreciate your trust and commitment to embracing greener solutions.   ⭐Together, we’ve made steps toward a cleaner, better tomorrow! Wishing you and your loved ones a joyous holiday season filled with warmth, happiness, and great energy.   🌲Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year! — Horizons Team — 🌍💚

The President of the Energy Regulatory Office Urząd Regulacji Energetyki (URE) has officially announced the 💰Renewable Energy Fee (OZE Fee) rate for 2025, set at 3.50 PLN/MWh starting January 1, 2025.    💵This fee, first introduced in 2016, is an essential component of electricity bills aimed at supporting the production of energy from renewable sources. The OZE fee plays a main role in financing the expansion of renewable energy, increasing its share in Poland's energy mix, and ensuring stability for investments in the renewable energy sector.    In 2022 and 2023 the renewable energy fee was 0.00 PLN/MWh.  ❓What influences the amount of the renewable energy fee? 🔹The need to finance further generation capacities using renewable energy sources that are covered by support systems; 🔹High level of inflation in 2022 and 2023 affecting electricity prices; 🔹Price developments of the TGeBase index   ➡️📎For more details, visit the official announcement (in Polish): https://lnkd.in/dtVyex-C

🛎️In our day-to-day work, the Horizons Sp. z o.o. team identifies a need for investors to consider a variety of investment development scenarios due to the limited possibilities for connecting new installations to the grid and the limited flexibility of the transmission system. Battery energy storage systems are playing an increasingly important role in the projects we analyse. Our team helps investors to plan and execute BESS projects portfolio (stand-alone or co-located) with maximized Valuation – our services are divided into 3 stages: 🔹Business Case Optimization aimed to maximalize project Valuation 🔹Development and Execution 🔹Constant On-line Revenue Stack monitoring and benchmarking ➡️The following article aims to provide a concise overview of the legal and technical environment for energy storage systems in Poland, including an analysis of the opportunities and challenges for BESS investments. 📎https://lnkd.in/dgWhcxS4

🎅❤️🎅Już kolejny rok ekipa Horizons Sp. z o.o. razem z naszymi Partnerami bierze udział w akcji organizowanej przez Fundacja Święty Mikołaj dla Seniora. Paczki z prezentami dla podopiecznych Centrum Rozwoju i Integracji Społecznej Osób z Niepełnosprawnością Intelektualną w Lublinie już czekają na wysłanie 🎀 🎁 Mamy nadzieję, że nasze upominki wywołają na twarzach Seniorów uśmiech i umilą ich Święta! 😊 Serdecznie zachęcamy do włączenia się do akcji i wsparcia placówek oraz pensjonariuszy Domów Pomocy Społecznej, których marzenia są często bardzo skromne. Razem możemy więcej 💪❤️🎅 https://lnkd.in/dpExGZRX https://lnkd.in/dUQMv2ay

🇵🇱Poland is at the stage of consulting the National Energy and Climate Plan (KPEiK), which Poland was obliged to submit to the European Commission by June 30, 2024. Updating the KPEiK is a key element of managing the energy transition in Poland.   🔔Therefore, 25 organizations appealed to the Ministry of Climate and Environment (Ministerstwo Klimatu i Środowiska) , which is responsible for the appearance of a strategic document such as the KPEiK, for the government to clearly adopt the active transformation scenario as the basis for conducting the national climate and energy policy.   In addition, organizations also demand: 🔹Setting clear goals and an action agenda for entities involved in the energy transformation. 🔹Continue public consultations by initiating multi-level dialogue and broad sector discussions to monitor progress on the commitments made.   The signatories declare their readiness to cooperate with the government in developing and implementing a comprehensive and socially acceptable energy and climate policy for Poland for the coming decades.   Full text of the appeal at the link: https://lnkd.in/d2E4nSYc

💥📆On November 12, the European Commission approved a positive preliminary assessment of Poland's application for the payment of the second and third tranches of EUR 9.4 billion (EUR 5.3 billion in loans and EUR 4.1 billion in grants) under the Recovery and Resilience Facility. The Commission provisionally concluded that Poland had satisfactorily achieved 38 milestones and three targets set in the Council Implementing Decision.   🍀One of the most important activities covered by this payment application are issues related to renewable energy sources: The main goal is accelerating the deployment of #renewables (including changes to the Act on Renewable Energy Sources and the Energy Act, which facilitated the creation and functioning of civic energy communities, cooperatives and energy clusters; plans for auctioning renewable energy sources were also implemented).   The Commission has forwarded an initial assessment of Poland's achievement of the milestones and targets required for this payment to the Economic and Financial Committee, which has four weeks to deliver its opinion.

🛎️📊The European Investment Bank (EIB) showed the results of the survey. The percentage of companies in the European Union that have invested in mitigating and adapting to climate change is 61% and more than 70% in their digital transformation, the European Investment Bank (EIB) said in an investment report. It also shows that EU companies are making progress in tackling both climate change and digital transformation, but increasing EU investment requires a less fragmented EU single market.   The survey results also indicate that: 🔹53% of EU companies plan to invest in adapting to climate change; 🔹74% of European companies use advanced technologies to increase their competitiveness; 🔹Faced with trade shocks, firms are investing in more resilient and secure supply chains. 🔹In the case of 🇵🇱Poland, the percentage of companies that took action to adapt to climate change was 38%, with the EU average of 48%!   📎More about survey here: https://lnkd.in/dcwQ4-xW

🔖💥In recent weeks, the largest Distribution System Operators (DSO) in Poland are introducing changes to the Instruction of Transmission System Operation and Maintenance (IRiESD).    ➡️🤔The main change, the same for all DSOs, concerns the addition that the entity submitting an application for concluding a connection agreement within a period longer than 30 days from the date of get the connection conditions, the DSO, before concluding the connection agreement, may once again verify the existence of technical and economic connection conditions.   DSOs such as Enea and Energa have already completed consultations on the new document. Consultations are still ongoing in ➡️Tauron (https://lnkd.in/d55a2ZuZ ) and ➡️PGE Dystrybucja (https://lnkd.in/dekHYthe )

⚠️⚠️⚠️Forum Energii warns: Poland is at risk of an investment gap in the energy sector! ➡️Coal-fired power plants will be phased out of the system - their maintenance and operation are becoming more and more expensive. At the same time, there are still too few new projects that could fill the post-coal gap. Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne S.A. estimates that by 2035 - the year of expiry of the last contracts for coal in the capacity market - it is necessary to build an additional 12 GW (see graphic).   What about the capacity market in Poland?🤔 In accordance with the EU state aid rules, the Commission has granted consent to the operation of the capacity market for 10 years, i.e. to organize auctions that secure capacity in the system starting from 2021. The last capacity market auction will take place in December 2025. With the support of the capacity market, approximately 10 GW of new generation capacity and 1.9 GW of storage facilities have been or will be created. However, this should include 3 coal blocks (almost 3 GW).    After analysis, the Forum Energii proposes changes in the functioning of the capacity market: 🎯The main goal of the reformed capacity mechanism should be to stimulate investment in low- and zero-emission and flexible generation capacity, instead coal; 🎯Increasing technological diversification; 🎯A new way of organizing the auction (division into firm capacity and flexible capacity); 🎯Lower the minimum power for power suppliers from 2 to 1 MW; 🎯Differentiation of penalties for failure to deliver power for different suppliers; 🎯Organizing auctions more frequently.   📎More details (in Polish): https://lnkd.in/djWeKD2p

🇵🇱 RES auctions in Poland: The President of the Energy Regulatory Office (Urząd Regulacji Energetyki (URE) announces 7 regular auctions for the sale of energy from renewable sources in 2024! They will take place between 📆December 9 and 17 and will be decided by the end of the year.   🍀 Almost 44.6 TWh of green energy will be available for sale; 🍀 with a maximum value of just over PLN 17 billion; 🍀 auctions are dedicated to the only new installations; 🍀 33 TWh of energy was allocated to solar and wind energy producers - for the technologies that have been dominant so far.   📋🔔The exact dates of the auction for individual renewable sources can be found on the website of the Energy Regulation Office -> https://lnkd.in/dCudpRpf   #RESauctions #PLauctions