Last week I participated in the Impact CEE Conference. It was professionally organized, had a rich and fleshed out program filled with strong messages. The „energy and resources” panel hosted a number of interesting presentations, especially by Bertrand Piccard, a Swiss entrepreneur who circumnavigated the Earth in a solar-powered plane; and by Jarosław Brody, TAURON’s Vice-President of the Management Board responsible for development. The organizers also invited a representative of VPPlant, i.e. myself to give a speech,” – writes Grzegorz Nowaczewski, CEO of Virtual Power Plant.
Polish Briefing: More e-buses. US LNG in Świnoujście
What goes in Poland on 9th of June.
Polish Briefing: Baltic Pipie is getting hotter. Improved GDP forecast
What goes in Poland on 8th of June.
Qatari red herring diverts attention from Nord Stream 2 issues
„The Nord Stream 2 project is slowing down and may be at least delayed. This is caused by the increasing risk related to supporting this controversial endeavor, which is upping costs for its European promoters. However, Russians introduced a red herring – fictional problems with Qatari LNG,” writes Wojciech Jakóbik, editor in chief of BiznesAlert.pl.
Gazprom’s antitrust case needs a robust approach
The European Commission’s numerous anti-trust cases over the years have had a significant impact on the functioning of the market affected by the practices in question. In Gazprom’s case, the outcome may be different – there is a danger that it will result in no effect at all.
Polish Briefing: Government on oil and natural gas. Trump under fire
What goes in Poland on 7th of June.
Polish Briefing: 2018 budget. Against Nord Stream 2
What goes in Poland on 6th of June.
Will Poland Liberate East-Central Europe from Gazprom’s Dictates?
The victory of the conservatives of Jarosław Kaczyński’s party in 2015 in Poland signaled Warsaw’s retreat from the pro-Russian energy policy of 2007-2015, carried out by the liberals of Donald Tusk’s party – writes writes Janusz Kowalski in The Warsaw Institute Review.
Polish smog-fighting regulations to be ready before October
„Emissions requirements for new solid-fuel boilers, preferential loans for stove replacements, subsidized stove fuel for the poorest – these are some of the solutions that will be enforced before this year’s heating season”, announced the Vice-Minister of Development, Jadwiga Emilewicz.
Clean coal technologies: an opportunity to comply with the winter package
„Clean coal technologies and promotion of innovative solutions, whose goal is to reduce environmental pollution, are a key issue in the context of the EU winter package. I hope that the Institute will actively join the discussion on this topic,” said Vice-Minister of Energy, Grzegorz Tobiszowski during a seminar that took place at the Institute for Chemical Processing of Coal (IChPW) in Zabrze on 2 June.