Poland doesn’t intend to give up coal. It will wait until RES and nuclear replace it

Poland is not going to give up coal and will invest in keeping it in the energy mix. Minister of State Assets Jacek Sasin has pointed out that the Polish government would stick to this strategy until coal is replaced by renewable energy sources.

In an interview with the Polish Radio Sasin has announced that Poland would not give up coal until it is replaced by renewable energy and nuclear energy. “Coal is the backbone of our energy mix and we will continue to invest to maintain power generation from coal until we replace it with renewable energy and nuclear energy,” he said.

“We are monitoring the situation on the gas market, which was supposed to be a transitional fuel, but has become a chimeric raw material. Its price fluctuations make it impossible for us to take such risks. Today, the priority is Poland’s energy security, which means we need to produce as much energy as the industry and Polish families need, ” Sasin added.

According to Statistics Poland (Poland’s main statistical office – ed.), the extraction of hard coal in Poland fell by nearly four percent in 2022. Last year it amounted to 53 million tons.