What goes on in Poland on the 26th of October.
Russia criticizes the Poland-US collaboration on nuclear energy
Poland and the USA can together build nuclear power plants necessary for the implementation of the climate policy that will lower energy prices and stabilize the development of renewable energy sources. The introduction to this kind of cooperation was criticized by the Russian media.
– Experts on energy, economists and ordinary Poles ask themselves a natural question: is there enough money in Poland for an expensive nuclear project? – asks the author of the text in Rubaltic.ru. The Russians remind that Poland will have to apply for the consent of the European Commission for public aid for the construction of a nuclear power plant. This was admitted by the minister, government plenipotentiary for strategic energy infrastructure, Piotr Naimski, quoted by BiznesAlert.pl. – In this case it is very likely that Brussels will not agree for it – argue the Russians. – Brussels will not allocate European money to a non-European project – they add. They argue that Poland should use the French help if it wants financial support from European funds. However, Poles do not want financing for the European nuclear power plant. – We do not expect the possibility of financing or co-financing nuclear energy from the European Union level. These will be sovereign decisions at the national level, also in Poland – said Minister Naimski, quoted by BiznesAlert.pl.
The European Commission will actually have to agree to public aid for nuclear energy. However, it had no problem with this in the case of the Hinkley Point C project in Great Britain and agreed to it despite the resistance of the anti-nuclear lobby in the European Union, led by Austria. In the context of possible resistance from the neighbors, it is worth recalling that the updated Polish Nuclear Energy Program has been consulted across borders. The Commission also supported the modernization of nuclear power plants in Belgium to extend their life.