Tavion Starts Construction on First Poland Battery Parks
October 12, 2026 — Swedish energy company Tavion began construction of its first battery energy storage park in Poland, a 20 MW / 40 MWh two-hour system in Bydgoszcz. A second park in Luboń is due to start within two weeks, both connecting to the Enea Operator grid and funded by the €50 million in equity and debt raised in September.
Key Takeaways
- Tavion started construction on 8 October 2026 of a 20 MW grid-connection, 40 MWh two hour battery park in Bydgoszcz, Poland.
- A second battery park in Luboń is scheduled to break ground within two weeks of the Bydgoszcz start, with a third project to follow.
- The parks are financed by the €50 million in equity and debt Tavion raised in September 2026 and will connect to the Enea Operator distribution grid.
- The two sites form part of Tavion’s 184 MW ready-to-build or near-ready portfolio in Poland inside a wider 1.7 GW national pipeline.
- Poland currently has almost no operational grid-connected batteries despite rapid growth in its storage market.
Construction Begins Six Months After Company Launch
Tavion began construction of its first battery park in Bydgoszcz, in Poland’s Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship. The project is a two-hour system with 20 MW of grid-connection capacity and 40 MWh of installed storage. Balance-of-plant contractor Esix Polska is delivering the works. A second park in Luboń is expected to start within two weeks, with a third site to follow. The company states that Poland ranks among Europe’s fastest-growing storage markets yet still has almost no grid-connected batteries in commercial operation, placing Tavion among the earliest developers building at this scale.
Financing, Partners and Pipeline
Both parks are funded from the €50 million in equity and debt Tavion secured in September 2026. They will connect to the Enea Operator distribution network. At the Bydgoszcz groundbreaking, Tavion was joined by Enea Operator, Esix Polska, BESS integrator HyperStrong, and owner’s engineer Ayesa. Company representatives on site included CEO Emad Zand, Chief Development Officer and Country Head Poland Katarzyna Suchcicka, and COO Mathieu Beunier. The two projects sit within Tavion’s 184 MW portfolio in Poland that is at or near ready-to-build stage, part of a broader 1.7 GW development pipeline in the country. Market demand is described as driven by the rising share of renewables, the ongoing coal phase-out, and high electricity-price volatility.
Company Statements on Timing and Market Need
Emad Zand, CEO of Tavion, said the company already held land, grid connection and permits before financing closed, enabling simultaneous starts rather than sequential development. Katarzyna Suchcicka, Chief Development Officer and Country Head Poland, noted that Poland is adding renewables faster than it can store them and that the new parks will not close the gap but rank among the first batteries actually under construction in the country, with grid connection targeted for 2027 together with Esix Polska and Enea Operator.
I'm Amelia Bonner, an energy storage researcher and technical content writer focused on the technologies shaping the future of reliable, flexible, and sustainable energy systems. My work explores battery energy storage, grid-scale storage, renewable energy integration, battery technologies, and emerging energy storage solutions.
