Energy.

„The Court’s verdict on the OPAL dispute will be made as late as in 2019. However, because of the Court’s President’s decision, until then Russian monopoly would be theoretically possible over the pipeline that transmits Russian gas through Germany to Central and Eastern Europe. However, the auctions will take place only in August 2018,” writes […]

The amendment of the Act on renewable energy sources (RES) hastily prepared by MPs will probably lead to the bankruptcy of some wind farms whose owners a few years ago signed agreements with state-owned companies on selling green certificates. BiznesAlert.pl learned that Energa, a company from the city of Gdańsk, most probably inspired the amendment,” […]

 The estimated volume of natural gas sold by the PGNiG Group in the second quarter of 2017 was 5.63 bcm, while last year at the same time the figure was 4.71 bcm. During the first half of the year PGNiG sold 14.49 bcm in comparison to 12.68 bcm a year earlier.

Last week Vice-Minister of Energy Andrzej Piotrowski visited China where he signed a Polish-Chinese agreement on cooperation in the peaceful use of nuclear energy. At the same time the media are reporting that the ministry is close to making the final decision on the schedule and financing of the nuclear program. Is there a connection […]

„In the long term Poland should invest in significant diversification of energy sources,” Janusz Steinhoff, former Vice-Prime Minister and Minister of Economy, engineer and PhD comments for Biznesalert.pl. 

„The energy mix until 2030, which the government included in the announced assumptions for energy policy is quite rational. It is very good for our economy”, comments for biznesalert.pl professor Władysław Mielczarski from the Institute of Electrical Power Engineering at the Łódź University of Technology. 

„The goal of the amendment is to solve the issue of market oversupply of green certificates. The project proposes to withdraw the existing, fixed alternative fee which is 300.03 PLN per MWh,” writes Teresa Wójcik, editor at BiznesAlert.pl

„We are very welcoming towards our American partners, whom we can seriously help by opening to them our gas market,” announced Piotr Woźniak, PGNiG’s CEO told the Polish Press Agency. He also added that such a contract had to be beneficial to PGNiG. 

„Poland is capable of importing significant volumes of LNG from the United States. The expansion of the LNG terminal is Świnoujście will allow us to do that,” assessed Piotr Naimski, the Government Plenipotentiary for Strategic Energy Infrastructure.

„In reality the perspective of building offshore farms in Poland is quire remote. Even if the government includes them in the energy mix, electricity from the Baltic will be available no sooner than at the beginning of the next decade,” writes Teresa Wójcik, editor at BiznesAlert.pl