Tébar-Martínez, Enrique-Miguel, Hurtado Llopis, Luis, Bak, Witold, Kulesza, Zbigniew, Napieralski, Andrzej Positive effects of the migration from Ka-band satellite to 4G solution for the communication needs of a scattered set of 1 MW solar farms in Poland: a user’s experience Renewable Energy & Power Quality Journal. 2021, 19: 51-56. https://doi.org/10.24084/repqj19.212 URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/112688 DOI: 10.24084/repqj19.212 ISSN: 2172-038X Abstract: This paper contains a concise overview of the deployment of scattered solar power plants in Poland, mainly from the perspective of their communication networks, and how the recent development of the Polish 4G networks has a very positive impact for the performance of the whole monitoring system (production control and video-surveillance), with a special emphasis on video-analytics, due to its higher bandwidth demand. All the information will be shown from the point of view of the solar photovoltaics developer I+D Energías, and therefore it constitutes a real user’s experience. Keywords:Solar photovoltaics in Poland, Scattered generation, Video-analytics, 4G migration, CCTV monitoring, Ka-band, Lag time European Association for the Development of Renewable Energies, Environment and Power Quality (EA4EPQ) info:eu-repo/semantics/article