Winter Package.

BiznesAlert.com presents a summary of the most important events in energy sector in 2019. Such reports are to be published regularly on monthly basis.

We are confident that this year’s auctions on the capacity market will be held on the old rules. Can the same be expected by the end of 2019? After the announcement of the outcome of the negotiations, interpretation doubts arose, although they are diluted in favor of, among others, Poland. Except for exceptions, new coal […]

The new electricity market agreed during the trilogue in the European Union could mean a revolution on the Polish market. The change in the entries regarding the investment stage of a given coal-fired power plant project, where it can receive public aid, in the case of Poland’s capacity market, could result in the deprivation of […]

While the EU Council is proceeding the draft Regulation on the internal market for electricity Poland, France, the United Kingdom, Hungary, Greece and Ireland have presented their joint position on the principles of implementation and operation of the capacity mechanisms. They should guarantee of performance of the capacity contracts concluded before the date of entry […]

Increasing costs of the CO2 emissions are depriving the Polish energy producers of money they could be spending on the energy transition – judges the president of Tauron, Filip Grzegorczyk. As he points out – ultimately the high CO2 prices will harm the entire national economy and Polish consumers.

From our perspective, two things are happening in the energy sector- the technological revolution and the energy transition that must be fueled somehow. In Polish circumstances the key factor will be natural gas – said the head of the Jagiellonian Institute Marcin Roszkowski at the conference „Towards 21st Century Energy Systems in Central & Eastern […]

As long as no affordable electricity storage technology is available, energy supply security can only be guaranteed by fossil fuel-based power plants as a backup when no sun and wind are existing – writes dr. Frank Umbach, Research Director at the European Centre for Energy and Resource Security (EUCERS) at King’s College in London, who […]

Poland is negotiating the provisions of the winter package. It accepts proposals from Brussels as balanced and declares its readiness to abandon investments in new coal blocks after 2025. However, it criticizes France’s radical proposals.

On 30 November 2016, the European Commission published a draft legislative package called “Clean Energy for all Europeans” (popular name in the media: „Winter Package”). The document is more political than economic in nature, because it is primarily the legal implementation of the political guidelines contained in the European Council conclusions (Package 2030 of October […]

Environmental issues are currently one of the hottest problems in the European Union. This results from the fact that there is a general recognition that stopping climate change requires definite and urgent actions, as well as setting ambitious goals by all countries – not only European ones. One of the instruments used for achieving those […]