In May 2016, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education awarded grant to the SOLARIS Center for the construction of PHELIX beamline.

On 1 October 2015, inside the synchrotron, a 20 mA current of electrons was accelerated to its target energy of 1.5 GeV.

The SOLARIS Centre team has managed to transmit a beam of electrons to the storage ring of the synchrotron and saw the first light at the entry points to the beamlines. The beam was maintained for more than ten minutes, and it went around the ring more than two billion times.

At the beginning of February 2013, one of the key stages of the SOLARIS synchrotron construction was completed. Despite poor weather, the core shell has been finished and further construction works inside the building are progressing according to the schedule. The building will be fully completed in the third quarter of this year.

At the end of January 2018 in SOLARIS storage ring the maximum current of 500 mA at final energy of 1.5 GeV was stored.