Poland's utilities will build windfarms with record 500 megawatts of installed power this year, the head of the country's wind energy lobby PSEW told Reuters on Tuesday.
"Based on the information from investors, we estimate that this year it will be at least 500 megawatts of (wind-based) power," Krzysztof Prasalka said. "This is still very little given Poland's potential."
Last year, PSEW estimates, some 460 megawatts of windfarms were built in Poland.
European Union's largest ex-communist economy is in over 90 percent dependent on coal as its energy source and struggles to meet the EU's strict environment criteria with wind farms, biomass and nuclear energy seen as most serious alternatives to coal.
In the first quarter wind-based energy production in Poland more than doubled to 644 gigawatthours.
