Polish solar firm R.Power has signed a long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Polish telco Play to supply 240GWh of power over an 11-year period.

The energy will be delivered from R.Powers’ solar portfolio in Wielkopolskie Voivodship, a province in Poland’s west-central region. The region’s solar assets have a combined capacity of 18MW.

The PPA will be active from 2026 until 2037 and play a crucial role in decarbonizing Play’s carbon footprint, the company said.

Play was founded in 2007 and is one of Poland’s largest telco providers. In 2020, it became part of the French telco Iliad. Following this, in 2023, it merged with UPC Poland following Iliad’s acquisition of the company from Liberty Global.

R.Power is a European producer and developer of large-scale renewable energy and battery storage projects. It has operations across Poland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Germany, and Romania. In total, it has 1.1GW of operational renewable capacity.

In October 2023, R.Power signed a ten-year PPA with Orange Polska for more than 600GWh of power.

European telcos are increasingly signing PPAs to decarbonize their operations. Earlier this month, Orange Romania signed a ten-year virtual Power Purchase Agreement with Engie Romania that will cover 40GWh of Orange Romania’s annual electricity requirements.

Before this, in June of last year, Deutsche Telekom signed a PPA to procure wind energy in Romania with Actis-backed Rezolv Energy for 100GWh of clean power per year for 12 years.