Renewable energy facilities representing a capacity of 1.5 GW were launched over a period of just five months between early June and November last year, data provided by power grid operator IPTO data has shown.

RES facilities in operation totaled 12.2 GW in early November, 2023, up from 10.65 GW in early June, 2023, the IPTO data showed.

The November tally included 5.06 GW in wind farms and 6.55 GW in solar energy farms. As had been anticipated, solar energy farm launches recorded a bigger increase, which reached 1.28 GW, compared to five months earlier.

Wind farm capacity growth recorded a more modest rise of 261 MW. The remaining 35 MW in increased RES capacity resulted from biomass-biogas, small-scale hydropower and CHP installations.

RES facilities possessing connection terms totaled roughly 15.5 GW in November, 2023, which, combined with 12.2 GW in RES facilities already operating by that month, results in an overall RES portfolio capacity of 27.7 GW.

This figure greatly exceeds the country’s 2030 target for installed RES capacity, set at 23.5 GW in the revised National Energy and Climate Plan.