Energy.

The Polish government has a draft energy strategy for the upcoming decades. It remains to be seen how many of its propositions are possible to implement considering the EU’s increasingly ambitious climate policy – writes Wojciech Jakóbik, BiznesAlert.pl’s editor in chief.

The European Commission may call into question the point of introducing the capacity market in Poland, an instrument that enables the financing of new power plants – writes Teresa Wójcik, editor at BiznesAlert.pl. 

The declaration made in Krynica by the Minister of Energy Krzysztof Tchórzewski that the Ostrołęka power plant will be the last new coal-fired power plant in Poland is certainly a step in the right direction, but we cannot talk about a full pivot yet, this is more about stopping moving in a direction that is […]

On Tuesday 12 September, the European Parliament adopted regulations on the security of gas deliveries at first reading. According to the press release published on the EP’s webpage, every EU Member State that will face a gas shortage will be able to notify its neighbors and trigger cross-border assistance to prevent the decrease in supply. […]

On 8th September Glencore and Qatar Investment Fund (QIF) announced that the Chinese company CEFC would shortly finalise a transaction to buy 14.16% of shares in Rosneft. This information was confirmed by Rosneft’s CEO Igor Sechin. The value of the transaction is said to be US$ 9 billion. The first stage of Rosneft’s privatisation was […]

UOKiK addressed objections towards concentration consisting in PGE taking control over EDF Poland and rates that the transaction may be a threat to competition and one of its negative influences might be sales reduction at POLPX. PGE hopes for an agreement though – informs UOKiK in Friday’s news release.

One law for American tech companies and another for one Russian gas company? – asks Dr. Alan Riley, analyst of Center for European Policy Analysis.

During the 27th Economic Forum in Krynica energy was one of the most popular subjects. „Polish Davos” has previously initiated the direction of development of Poland’s energy sector. This time the talks revolved around innovations, electromobility, the fuel package, power synchronization and gas hub.

Travelling makes you stop and think. Things that are obvious in Poland and Lithuania are unimaginable in Great Britain. This explains the lack of understanding of Central and Eastern Europe’s concerns about the controversial Nord Stream 2 – writes Wojciech Jakóbik, BiznesAlert.pl’s editor in chief.

At  the Polish Press Agency’s conference center, Energa Group organized a press conference where its CEO Daniel Obajtek announced the company decided not to recognize green certificate agreements.