What goes on in Poland on the 21st of March.
PGNiG books the capacity of the gas terminal in Lithuania
The Poles first cleared the gas pipeline from Lithuania and have now booked the capacity of the terminal in Klaipeda. They will be able to use it to import up to a fifth of what they brought from Russia in the face of the invasion of Ukraine.
Gaz-System has invested in the Poland-Lithuania gas pipeline to import up to 2 billion cubic meters annually from May 2022. It has been also revealed that the Polish PGNiG has reserved the capacity of the LNG terminal in Klaipeda, i.e. a floating FSRU storage and regasification unit. „PGNiG has reserved regasification capacity in the LNG terminal in Klaipeda,” the company confirms in response to an enquiry from BiznesAlert.pl, but did not provide the date or volume of the reservation.
Deliveries via Lithuania are another potential source of supplies to replace imports from Russia. Poland planned to end the Yamal contract with Russia’s Gazprom in 2022 and not sign a new one. However, due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the gas transmission may be cut off faster due to an embargo that may be imposed by the European Union or an incident related to military operations. Therefore, Poles took a number of actions to prepare for such a possibility, including the faster launch of the Poland-Lithuania gas pipeline.
Polish Nuclear Power Plants came to Kashubia to talk to local governments about the construction of the nuclear power plant
On March 18, in Wejherowo, trilateral talks were held on the future of the region in connection with the construction and operation of a nuclear power plant. The meeting was attended by the Government Plenipotentiary for Strategic Energy Infrastructure, President of the Management Board of Polish Nuclear Power Plants and representatives of local governments.
The company Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe (Polish NPPS, PEJ) announced in December 2021 that the location of “Lubiatowo-Kopalino”, in the Choczewo commune (Wejherowo poviat), was indicated as the preferred location for the construction of the first nuclear power plant in Poland. Due to its scale, the investment will be implemented both in the local commune and in the neighboring communes (individual elements of the accompanying infrastructure will be built throughout the entire Pomeranian Voivodeship).
That is why the status of the project, the company’s plans for the coming months and the expectations of the social side were discussed by: Piotr Naimski – Government Plenipotentiary for Strategic Energy Infrastructure, Tomasz Stępień – President of the Management Board of Polish Nuclear Power Plants and signatories of the February “Cooperation Agreement”, i.e. ten local governments representing poviats : Wejherowo, Pucki and Lęborski, as well as rural communes: Choczewo, Gniewino, Krokowa, Łęczyce, Nowa Wieś Lęborska, Wicko and one municipal district – the city of Łeba.