Orlen Buys 216 MW Shovel-Ready Solar-Wind Hybrid From Onde and Neo Energy Group

Grupa Orlen has closed the purchase of two project companies holding construction rights to a 216 MW hybrid renewables complex in the municipality of Kazimierz Biskupi, in the Wielkopolska region of Poland. The sellers are Polish developers Onde and Neo Energy Group.

The refiner bought pipeline rather than originating it. The acquired vehicles carry rights to build a 180 MW photovoltaic farm and a 36 MW wind farm. The buyer is Orlen New Power, the group company responsible for developing and managing onshore renewable assets.

Combined output is put at roughly 315 GWh a year, enough to meet the annual demand of close to 143 thousand households on the assumptions presented.

The two farms will share a single grid connection under a cable pooling arrangement. Ireneusz Fafara, Orlen's chief executive, said the deal adds a 216 MW project that will combine solar and wind generation and allow efficient use of the connection infrastructure.

Tadeusz Zborowski, the vice-president of the Orlen New Power management board responsible for finance, described the Kazimierz Biskupi purchase as a transaction combining large investment scale with an advanced stage of project development and efficient use of available connection capacity.

The wind side will run nine Vestas V136 turbines rated at 4 MW each.

Execution stays with the sellers. Onde will act as general contractor and Neo Energy Group will manage the construction process, while Energa Green Development will provide investor supervision on behalf of the Orlen group.

Construction work is scheduled to start in the third quarter of 2026. First energisation of the national grid is expected at the beginning of 2028, with full commercial operation in the second quarter of 2028.

Site selection follows the group's existing footprint. Kazimierz Biskupi sits about 8 km from the Kleczew Solar and Wind installation, and the two investments together form an onshore renewables cluster of about 485 MW.

The scale of the acquisition is modest against the buyer's balance sheet. Orlen reported consolidated sales revenue of PLN 267 billion in 2025 and has been listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange since 1999.

For a refiner-led group, the structure is the point: rights, permits and a contracted build team transfer in one step, with the shared connection point doing double duty for two generation profiles.