Bartłomiej Sawicki

Ministry of Climate has drafted updates to the regulation on the detailed register of liquid fuels whose production, storage and trade require a license. The goal of the changes is to adapt the nomenclature to the regulation issued by the European Commission from October 2019. A number of smaller entities from this sector might face […]

Enea and Energa completed their analyses on the Ostrołęka C project, which concluded that gas is the best fuel for the new unit. PKN Orlen, which joined the project as its third partner, wanted to replace coal with natural gas, which causes less emissions. This change begs further questions for the investors – writes Bartosz […]

By the end of June the Ministry of State Assets will present a plan for reforming Poland’s coal industry. However, Jacek Sasin, head of the ministry and deputy prime minister, said his goal was to keep the miners’ jobs and argued the coronavirus would not be a pretext to undertake long-term actions about mines. So […]

The new coal-fired unit in the Turów power plant is almost finished. It should be ready to go in the third quarter of this year. However, the license to extract coal from a nearby coal mine will expire in a month. The Czechs are against prolonging it. Where will the coal come from if not […]

The construction of the Ostrołęka C power plant has already cost PLN 300 million. The price may go up because the invoices are still being counted. According to recent speculation the plant may be running on gas, not coal as originally planned. This begs at least two questions – where will the gas come from […]

Jacek Sasin Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State Assets told the RMP FM radio station that state-owned companies will no longer import coal. This decision may make it harder to purchase cheap coal, which will in turn increase costs of energy production – writes Bartłomiej Sawicki, editor at BiznesAlert.pl.

–  We expect the act on offshore wind concern to include inter alia the selection of a support model for the first offshore wind projects in Poland. There are still some elements that require clarification. According to Ørsted, a comprehensive and broad industry act should be adopted by the government and parliament as soon as […]

“Financing the energy transition” was the topic of another debate organised in Brussels by PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna. The panel guests have agreed that one of the tools for supporting the decarbonisation, the Just Transition Fund (JTF), should be significantly boosted if it is not to remain just a buzzword. The example of transition in […]

-Poland and the Baltic states are surrounded by Russian pipelines. We may obtain Russian gas from all directions. When it comes to electricity, Baltic states, that are NATO and EU members, are still in the post-Soviet electricity system – said government plenipotentiary for strategic energy infrastructure Piotr Naimski at a conference „NATO Eastern Flank Security” […]

Despite the inauguration of the Fund for Mining and coal Regions, it is not known whether funds for this purpose will be in the new budget of the European Union. It is important because Poland may be its biggest beneficiary – writes Bartłomiej Sawicki, journalist of BiznesAlert.pl.