Coal.

On Wednesday, EP and Council reached a provisional agreement on setting up the Just Transition Fund to mitigate the social impact of greening the economy. According to Jerzy Buzek, ITRE repporteur on Just Transition Fund, Poland is to get one fifth of the budget or about 4 bn euro.

Polska Grupa Górnicza needs about PLN 2 billion a year to function and to prevent social protests, once the decision to close it is made. However, apart from spending money on shutting down mines, public aid for the coal sector in the EU may be problematic. What do lawyers have to say about the possibility […]

„We are almost absolutely certain that it won’t be necessary to close down mines because of the second wave of the coronavirus,” our sources close to the government told us. Mining companies declare they are better prepared than in the spring – Karolina Baca-Pogorzelska, contributor to BiznesAlert.pl, writes.

A lot has been written about the recent deal signed by the government and coal unions („Agreement Between the Government and the Inter-Union Protest and Strike Committee of the Silesian-Dąbrowski Region”). However, there is no wide-ranging, in-depth discussion on the possible scenarios for the upcoming negotiations with Brussels, which will be difficult. The goal of […]

On Friday the government signed a deal with mining trade unions. The goal is to prepare ground for future talks on the details of shutting down Poland’s mining sector. The deal even includes the long-awaited deadline. However, meeting the demands may turn out very difficult. The European Commission decided that as of 2019 it would […]

During his latest visit to Poland, the US Secretary of State signed a new agreement on developing a civil nuclear power program with Warsaw. Even though no final decision was made, new arguments for nuclear power emerge, including the contention that without nuclear energy Poland may have to start importing gas via Nord Stream 2 […]

We are witnessing another chapter of the saga on restructuring Poland’s black coal sector, which has been taking place since the beginning of the 1990s. Every new government proposed a new strategy on how the industry should function. The visions were different, but they all had one thing in common: restructuring. Despite numerous attempts at […]

3.25 million tons – that’s how much coal Poland bought abroad in the first four months of the year. This is a huge drop in comparison to previous years – writes Karolina Baca-Pogorzelska, contributor at BiznesAlert.pl.

The Polish government has admitted that in the face of the EU climate policy, coal assets are becoming a burden for energy companies, whose main job is to provide electricity. It seems that the PGE Group and PKN Orlen convinced their owner to transfer those assets to an entirely new company – writes Bartłomiej Sawicki, […]

The proponents of Datteln 4 claim that this plant will be very modern and clean and emphasize that it will be delivering the necessary „base load”. But actually, to complement fluctuating renewables like solar and wind, we don’t need „base load” but rather highly flexible means of supply, such as turbines running on renewable gas, […]