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According to the preliminary results of the parliamentary elections in Germany, Angela Merkel will govern the country for the fourth term. The results also exposed the march of the populists and the failure of the socialists. The lack of post-communists in the coalition is a chance to block Nord Stream 2, for which Poland is […]

Emissions trading is a one-of-a-kind instrument in environmental policy. By putting a cap on the total amount of emissions and distributing the available emissions among the participating companies in the form of tradeable allowances, an emissions trading system (ETS) creates the only commodity market in the world where it pays to produce less.

„It seems everything has been said about the bill on renewables and yet the topic is still high on the agenda because the situation is dynamic (currently the MP’s express amendment is waiting for the President’s veto or signature). The act on investments in wind power plants, which turned one on 16 July is in […]

„Poland took a constructive approach to the energy mix and decreasing coal participation in electricity production. It is certain that transforming the energy industry and gradually departing from coal may simply be beneficial for us,” argues professor Jerzy Buzek, Chair of the European Parliament’s Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE), in an interview for […]

„In reality the perspective of building offshore farms in Poland is quire remote. Even if the government includes them in the energy mix, electricity from the Baltic will be available no sooner than at the beginning of the next decade,” writes Teresa Wójcik, editor at BiznesAlert.pl

US President Trump has made it clear that he is not happy with the Paris Agreement. This week he will announce whether the US will withdraw from the Agreement altogether. What might that mean for the global fight against climate change? US decarbonisation is already well underway but the EU would need to step up […]

On 11 May, the lower chamber of the Polish Parliament – the Sejm, adopted a resolution, which said the proposals made by the European Parliament and the Council on the internal energy market go against the subsidiarity principle. The ongoing discussion on the so-called winter package will have a decisive impact on the Polish economy.

– The emerging governance system of the Energy Union brings some positive processes as streamlining the reporting obligations, but can provoke new ones creating unnecessary obligations for the member states. Stakeholders from Central Europe point out in the released position paper the most striking inconsistencies of the proposal for a Regulation on the Governance of […]

„After a brief increase, green certificates which were supposed to support the production of clean electricity went down again. Their price dropped to the lowest level in their 12-year history. According to a report published by WysokieNapiecie.pl this situation will not change quickly, despite the fact that we are producing less and less electricity from […]

The 2nd Round Table on Energy is taking place in Warsaw. The panel on Renewable Energy Sources was moderated by Patrycjusz Wyżka from the TVN24 news channel. The discussion was dominated by the future of the Paris Agreement after President Donald Trump’s decision, who wants to pull out from the package.