Energy.

The Polish Electricity Association (PKEE) believes that electrification should be the main driver of energy transition, accelerating decarbonisation in other sectors of economy. According to “Decarbonisation Pathways”, a study by Eurelectric, in 2050 electricity will play a leading role in transport, as it will constitute up to 63% of the total final energy consumption in […]

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 […]

Poland’s Renewable Energy Act has not been fully updated to comply with the EU Directive on Renewable Energy, and especially to its second version from December 2018. The deadline for its implementation is June 2021. In theory we do have some time, but that’s just theory. The works on implementation should be ending and not […]

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, […]

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 […]

„Half of households in Poland that suffer from energy poverty experience financial poverty as well. If wages go down and unemployment goes up, it may turn out that the consequences of these detrimental economic changes will be especially severe for households that are already suffering from energy poverty,” says Jakub Sokołowski, economist at the Institute […]

The hydrocarbons price crisis proves diversification is critical for companies whose business is based on extraction. One of the alternatives to this state of affairs is hydrogen, so its development should be supported with a Polish hydrogen strategy. The current discussion in Germany is food for thought on this issue – writes Wojciech Jakóbik, editor […]

Nuclear power plants have confirmed their flexibility and strong resistance to crises. Power generation continued without a single interruption and was never at risk, which means EU energy security was also safe – says Witold Strzelecki, expert at Foratom, a trade association for the nuclear energy industry in Europe.

Even though Poland has not yet agreed to support the EU climate neutrality goal, the legislation whose goal is to reach the target is already binding for us. This means we are standing in some kind of a nightmarish “draught”, which never ends well – warns professor Jerzy Buzek, Poland’s former prime minister and a […]

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 […]