winter package.

We are confident that this year’s auctions on the capacity market will be held on the old rules. Can the same be expected by the end of 2019? After the announcement of the outcome of the negotiations, interpretation doubts arose, although they are diluted in favor of, among others, Poland. Except for exceptions, new coal […]

The new electricity market agreed during the trilogue in the European Union could mean a revolution on the Polish market. The change in the entries regarding the investment stage of a given coal-fired power plant project, where it can receive public aid, in the case of Poland’s capacity market, could result in the deprivation of […]

While the EU Council is proceeding the draft Regulation on the internal market for electricity Poland, France, the United Kingdom, Hungary, Greece and Ireland have presented their joint position on the principles of implementation and operation of the capacity mechanisms. They should guarantee of performance of the capacity contracts concluded before the date of entry […]

What goes on in Poland on the 4th of September.

From our perspective, two things are happening in the energy sector- the technological revolution and the energy transition that must be fueled somehow. In Polish circumstances the key factor will be natural gas – said the head of the Jagiellonian Institute Marcin Roszkowski at the conference „Towards 21st Century Energy Systems in Central & Eastern […]

As long as no affordable electricity storage technology is available, energy supply security can only be guaranteed by fossil fuel-based power plants as a backup when no sun and wind are existing – writes dr. Frank Umbach, Research Director at the European Centre for Energy and Resource Security (EUCERS) at King’s College in London, who […]

On 30 November 2016, the European Commission published a draft legislative package called “Clean Energy for all Europeans” (popular name in the media: „Winter Package”). The document is more political than economic in nature, because it is primarily the legal implementation of the political guidelines contained in the European Council conclusions (Package 2030 of October […]

It is a very interesting period for the European electricity system, which is undergoing big, systematic changes. The transition towards a low-carbon economy means a growing role for renewable energy sources, greater energy efficiency and the electrification of transport and other sectors, which power markets have to respond to. Naturally, in such a framework, electricity […]

The capacity market is the only rational solution and the best remedy for the instability of the system caused by the specificity of the existing power generation sources – says Janusz Steinhoff, former deputy prime minister and minister of economy. 

In order to permanently limit pollutant emissions and transition to a low- and zero-emissions economy, the European Union compels to introduce significant changes in the energy mix already at the beginning of the next decade, i.e. since September 2021 to limit emissions of sulphur dioxide, nitric oxide, mercury and dust on the basis of the […]