The upcoming heating season is bringing back the problem of supplying Ukrainian power and CHP stations with anthracite. Last February the government in Kiev declared a state of energy emergency because, among others, Donbas’s black gold deliveries were blocked. The necessity to secure stable and regular coal deliveries for the energy and steel sectors forced the cabinet of Prime Minister Groysman to diversify supply sources. The United States has become the latest and extremely controversial provider. Controversial because, according to many experts, Ukraine overpays for the American hydrocarbons – writes Roma Bojanowicz, BiznesAlert.pl contributor.
Jakóbik: Will Poland meet the expectations of EU’s climate policy?
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.
Wójcik: Capacity market – yet another bone of contention between Poland and Brussels?
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.
Polish Briefing: San Leon Energy will sell a part of concessions for gas and oil exploration in Poland
What goes on in Poland on the 20th of September.
Polish Briefing: Morawiecki promises millions for a fight against smog. Resistance within the government will be overcome
What goes on in Poland on the 18th of September.
German press: EC should take over negotiations on Nord Stream 2
The German government should agree to let the European Commission take over the negotiations on the terms of construction of Nord Stream 2 with Russia, wrote Germany’s Sueddeutsche Zeitung last Wednesday. The construction of the gas pipeline is a source of concern for Central and Eastern European countries – reminds the daily.
Śniegocki: a turn in Poland’s energy policy still ahead
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 contrary to pan-European trends – says Aleksander Śniegocki Project Manager for Energy and Climate at WiseEuropa in an interview for BiznesAlert.pl.
Buzek: Revision of the SOS regulation marks the end of concerns over gas supply security from Germany to Poland (interview)
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. This pertains to the so-called review of the SOS regulation. Professor Jerzy Buzek, rapporteur of the project comments on the new rules.
Polish Briefing: Poland and China are performing a new opening in bilateral relations
What goes on in Poland on the 18th of September.
OSW: China’s CEFC has acquired a stake in Rosneft
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 the purchase of 19.5% of shares in Rosneft by QHG Shares Pte. Ltd., a company founded in Singapore on 8th December 2016 in which Glencore and QIF are shareholders through their subsidiaries. Once the transaction has been completed, Rosneft will have the following shareholders: the Russian state though ROSNEFTEGAZ (50% of shares plus one), the British company BP (19.75%), CEFC (14.16%), QHG Shares Pte. Ltd. (5.34%), and smaller-scale shareholders – write Szymon Kardaś, Marcin Kaczmarski and Jakub Groszkowski, experts of OSW.