Energy.

Notification of the capacity market in Poland by the European Commission was never to happen. For this reason, it must be regarded as a success. However, it was bought with concessions. One of them is the consent for auctions for cross-border power plants, which are worrying for a part of the industry – writes Wojciech Jakóbik, […]

The Polish Electricity Association welcomes today’s decision of the Commission, in which the EC has confirmed that the assumptions of the Polish Capacity Market Act (adopted by the Polish Parliament on 8 December 2017) are in line with the State aid rules (SA.46100).

Although the Iron Curtain has not completely collapsed in the power sector, Poland is fortunately on its safe side. If Latvia and Estonia do not communicate with it by June, they may lose funds to remove the barrier – writes Wojciech Jakóbik, editor-in-chief of BiznesAlert.pl.

A review of the Gas Directive is needed to protect the European Union gas market not only because of Nord Stream 2. However, it may discourage the implementation of this project. Jerzy Buzek, former Prime Minister and Chairman of the European Parliament’s Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, speaks of this.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki was a special guest at a conference „Risk and Trends 2018” organized by Polityka Insight, under a patronage of BiznesAlert.pl. One of threads of his speech concerned the difference in treating Western Europe and Central and Eastern Europe by the European Commission.

Written statement submitted by the Warsaw Institute Foundation – our opinion on the Commission proposal for a Directive amending Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council 2009/73/EC.

The US Secretary of State’s visit to Poland was an opportunity to criticise the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. The Prime Minister’s advisor reveals how Poland wants to sign up to the plan to change the status quo in the region under the auspices of Americans – writes Wojciech Jakóbik, editor-in-chief of BiznesAlert.pl.

The most important in Davos 2018 was the world’s first confrontation: globalism and antiglobalism. AP Agency notes that Trump is the first US president to take part in the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos since Bill Clinton in 2000 – Bloomberg assessed it a little bit maliciously – President Donald Trump welcomed by Klaus […]

More expensive petroleum is a challenge for the Polish importers. For the time being, the biggest players in Poland are still calm. Meanwhile, Brent barrel price oscillates around $70, which induces them to search for new deposits – writes Wojciech Jakóbik, editor-in-chief of BiznesAlert.pl.

On 24th of January Minister of Energy Žygimantas Vaičiūnas met with the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Denmark to Lithuania Mr Dan E. Frederiksen. During the meeting, the focus was put on the discussion of the two countries’ positions on the natural gas pipeline Nord Stream 2, which will run under the Baltic Sea to […]