Energy.

The European Commission wants to support energy transformation in Central Europe with specific measures. The industry wants to change and is already doing it, but it counts on help. The region relies on LNG from Świnoujście. The Central European Day of Energy 2017 under the patronage of BiznesAlert.pl took place in Brussels.

Poland should strive to get closer to Germany. However, it cannot be done with the eyes closed, not to become a victim of German rapprochement with Russia – writes Wojciech Jakóbik, editor-in-chief of BiznesAlert.pl.

Prime Minister Beata Szydło submitted her resignation to the political committee of the ruling party. Her successor is to be Mateusz Morawiecki. Perhaps he will manage to overcome the deadlock around the Responsible Development Strategy, but before the new order arrives, the energy sector must face a transition period and a new carousel of positions. […]

The European Commission approved under EU State aid rules a Polish renewable energy scheme and a reduced levy to finance the scheme for energy-intensive users. This will further EU energy and climate goals and ensure the global competitiveness of energy-intensive users whilst preserving competition.

– The cost of the capacity charge will be less than PLN 2 per month for the largest group of households. For non-household end users, the capacity charge will depend on the electricity consumption at certain hours of the day – Teresa Wójcik, editor of BiznesAlert.pl, counts.

Currently, every fifth barrel of crude oil processed at the Gdańsk Refinery comes from other direction than the East. The authorities want a further diversification and are afraid of a terrorist attack on transmission infrastructure, which is why as part of the oil policy they are planning to build the second line of the Pomeranian […]

Central and Eastern European countries that want to go through energy transition, but in evolutionary way. How can the European Commission and energy community in general could help those countries adapt to the new situation? We interviewed Dominique Ristori, the director-general of the Directorate-General for Energy within the European Commission.

LOTOS purchased another cargo of US oil. A tanker carrying 650,000 barrels (i.e. about 80,000 tonnes) of US WTI Midland crude is on its way to Naftoport in Gdańsk. The transaction is in line with LOTOS’s consistently pursued strategy for diversification of supply sources. All decisions to purchase crude oil are taken on a case-by-case basis, […]

The future of energy, the importance of the role of the consumer, new technologies and the EU legal frameworks. This is what the experts from all over Europe are discussing in Paris today (5.12) during the conference „Electricity: Welcome to The world of Tomorrow”, organized under the patronage of French President Emmanuel Macron. The Polish […]

The European Commission will not transfer the last € 600 million tranche for Ukraine. This action is a part of current Macro-Financial Assistance programme. It is worth € 1.8 billion and was approved in 2015. However, it is ready to consider the issue of further MFA provided reform momentum is stepped up.