Poland breaks records on the energy market

On the morning of 3rd of January, Poland broke a record of hourly net energy export, and several hours later another record of energy production from wind. For the first time, wind farms supplied over 5000 MW of energy to the consumers, which is 34 percent of the total energy demand in Poland.

Strong low pressure area over the Baltic Sea, called Alex, created the strongest Baltic storm in 15-20 years. Alex contributed to generating a lot of energy on the wind farms of Northern Europe. Because of this, on Tuesday energy flowed from Northern and Central Europe to the south of the continent.

The exporters of energy were Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic and Austria, which are located on the route of strong wind blowing from over the Norwegian Sea. Energy importers were such countries as Switzerland, Slovakia, France, Spain, Italy, Hungary and other Balkan states, where temperature at night was no higher than zero.

Production of energy of this big for the needs of consumers in other countries caused the price to hike to 120 PLN/MWh. However, energy in Poland is a little cheaper than in the Scandinavian countries due to continuing low value of Polish zloty against the euro. This made it possible for Poland to export energy both to Sweden and Lithuania.

The price of energy on Warsaw Power Exchange dropped in turn in the evening, also because of Alex. During the night from 3^rd to 4^th of January, an atmospheric front passed over Poland carrying with it wind gushes of up to 100 km/h. In effect, wind farm energy production exceeded 5100 MW.

The previous record was broken as little as a week ago, and the energy produced then reached the level of around 4900 MW.

Most probably this is not the end of breaking records this year, as Polish winter is the time of strong winds, that is why a fruitful winter in terms of energy production is expected.