Energy.

The key to wealth and prosperity is reliable and affordable energy. Which is why the ‘unreliables’, wind and solar threaten both wealth and prosperity (except, of course, those wallowing in the obscene and seemingly endless subsidies paid to the owners of windmills and solar panels) – writes Prof. Mirosław Lewiński.

PERN is close to finishing the expansion of oil storage capacity in Gdańsk. „When it comes to the oil storage capacity, we have one more tank to build. It will hold 45 tcm. It should be ready in the summer of 2021. So, the oil hub in Pomerania will continue to develop despite the coronavirus […]

PKN Orlen is a fuel company that produces and sells oil products in Central and Eastern Europe. Within a decade it wants to transform into a multi-utility powerhouse that profits from generation and sale of power from renewables, and from processing oil for the chemical industry – writes Bartłomiej Sawicki, editor at BiznesAlert.pl.

The hope for coronavirus vaccines and encouraging economic data are driving up oil prices. What will happen if it turns out that the market is wrong, and the third wave of the virus will cause a new oil price crisis that will be impossible to overcome? – Wojciech Jakóbik, editor in chief at BiznesAlert.pl, asks.

After an almost 2-month long wait, the Council of Ministers did not adopt the Promotion of the Electricity Generation in the Offshore Wind Farms Act (the Draft Act), yet again. At the beginning of December the Draft Act will be submitted to the lower chamber of the Parliament (the Sejm). BiznesAlert.pl asked lawyers what they […]

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 […]

Janusz Piechociński, Poland’s former economy minister, believes the country’s energy policy should be more pragmatic. „This is better than throwing a fit, after which someone may ask what we won, to which we’ll answer that all we got was a headache,” the BiznesAlert.pl interlocutor said.

„Our region will become an arena for huge investments in the energy sector, over which companies from various parts of the world will compete. So it won’t be calm,” Mariusz Kawnik, Executive Director at Central European Energy Partners, says in an interview with BiznesAlert.pl.

H.E. Ambassador Virginia E. Palmer Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Energy Resources at the U.S. State Department took part in a webinar organized by the Warsaw Institute. She talked about the importance of diversification projects pursued by Poland and the U.S to improve Europe’s security.

Polish PGNiG argues that Gazprom’s application for gas price increase in so-called Yamal contract is ineffective because of formal reasons.