Call for papers resolved! The Program is available on the site! Program Committee has selected abstracts, which authors will be able to deliver a lecture at the PWEA VII Conference and Exhibition. The winners have been notified by the e-mail. Other participants, who were not admitted, may register at the rate of early-bird registration. For this purpose, please contact Ms. Diana Paryska This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or Ms. Dorota Bereza This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. The Program is available on the site www.psew.pl 

“Let’s make a good Renewable Energy Sources Act – together” – this is the motto of the next, XIVth Wind Energy Forum to be held on 11 April 2012. The industry meeting will be the key – if not the most important one – element of social consultations required by legislation procedure. The RES Act is crucial for the future of renewable energy sources.

Please be advised that PWEA has an English translation of the new draft regulation of minister for economy (renewable energy regulation) on the detailed scope of the obligation to acquire and present certificates of origin for cancellation, pay the substitution fee, purchase electricity and heat produced from renewable energy sources and the obligation to confirm the data concerning the amount of electricity produced from a renewable energy source together with Regulatory Impact Assessment and statement of reasons to regulation which can be purchased upon payment of a fee.

Should you be interested in purchasing the translation, please transfer 350 PLN + VAT23% (430,5 PLN) to the account no. 80 1440 1143 0000 0000 0155 4484, with "renewable energy regulation" as a transfer title. The transfer confirmation and the invoice data should be sent to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  

The translation and the invoice will be sent to you via e-mail.

We kindly inform you that the call for papers has started, organized under the 7^th PWEA Conference and Exhibition. On the Conference website under the “Call for papers” bookmark has been posted sessions' and panels' topics as well as proposals for articles' topics. We invite you to participate in the competition. For more information visit www.psew2012.pl

2011 was a stable year for the offshore wind industry with 235 new offshore wind turbines grid connected, worth approximately 2.4 billion Euros.

European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) published its annual offshore wind statistics for 2011 in Brussels showing that 235 new turbines with a total power capacity of 866 Megawatts (MW) were fully grid connected across nine offshore wind farms.

Nine offshore wind farms currently under construction will bring online an additional 2375 MW – increasing the EU’s total installed offshore wind power capacity by 62%.

Did the wind power boom in Poland end before it could really start? This is the most important question asked by investors after the ERO published data concerning the sector’s development last year and after publication of the package of energy legislation. In accordance with the latest data of the Energy Regulatory Office, at the end of December 2011 there were 1 616.36 MW of installed wind capacity.

In 2010 the figure was 1179 MW, hence the growth of 437 MW, which is 18 MW less than in 2010, which saw 455 MW of new capacity. This is much below operators’ forecasts reaching 2 000 MW and the industry’s capacity. The data demonstrate that despite hundreds of millions Euros of European and national subsidies the growth is clearly slowing down.

The National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management announced a schedule of planned receipt of applications under the priority programmes in force in the Fund. Wind power investors may only count on a competition under the Green Investments Scheme – Part 4 – Construction, extension and conversion of power grids to allow for connection of wind power generating sources (RES), scheduled for the 2^nd quarter of 2012.

Authoritative, strict imposition of environmental impact assessment methodology for wind farms is inadvisable, for each site has its own, unique specificity – this is the most important conclusion from the Wind Energy Forum held this week. The green energy industry wants to forward conclusions from the Forum to the General Environmental Protection Directorate, which is working on guidelines regulating the studies on the impact of wind turbines on birds and bats.

On behalf of members of the Polish Wind Energy Association I kindly request Mr. Prime Minister to appoint a Governmental Plenipotentiary for Renewable Energy Sources.

The climate and energy policy adopted in all countries of the European Union as the basis for industrial development, in particular in the energy sector imposes on member states a number of targets and specific tasks related to its implementation. Due to historically determined characteristics of the fossil-based energy sector, the situation of our country is very specific. However, these characteristics do not exempt our country from the need to fulfil the assumed obligations despite acquisition of special terms and conditions and transitory periods.

Assessment of wind farms’ impact on birds and bats is one of the most important aspects of investment development, involving investors, naturalists carrying out field studies, as well as administration bodies issuing environmental decisions. However, a discussion concerning the guidelines and principles regulating the process may not be carried out without industry representatives. Therefore, the Polish Wind Energy Association decided that the next Wind Energy Forum (5 December 2011, Warsaw, Mariott hotel) will be fully dedicated to the discussion on the methodology of assessment of wind farms’ impact on birds and bats.