capacity market.

What goes on in Poland on the 7th of December.

Draft law on power market ready to vote at the session of the Sejm on 5 – 7 December. On November 24, the Sejm Energy and Treasury Committee worked on the amendments proposed to the draft law on power market in the second parliamentary debate – writes Teresa Wójcik, editor of BiznesAlert.pl.

What goes on in Poland on the 19th of October.

What goes on in Poland on the 12th of October.

The capacity market is the only rational solution and the best remedy for the instability of the system caused by the specificity of the existing power generation sources – says Janusz Steinhoff, former deputy prime minister and minister of economy. 

In Brussels Poles discussed the capacity market. The Polish Electricity Association (PKEE) argues that there was no point in mixing the tools of energy and climate policy while implementing the market. This is how the Association defends the coal sector from the constraints imposed on the capacity market due to climate policy. 

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. 

According to Compass Lexecon experts, the security of electricity supply in Poland in the long run can only be guaranteed by implementation of the capacity mechanism (CM). This solution would be the most efficient form of intervention and the most beneficial one for both electricity producers and for the end consumers.

What goes on in Poland on the 12th of September.

„If we add up all plans of energy companies for the coming years, we will come up with infinity. Or at least with amounts that will give us a headache,” writes Karolina Baca-Pogorzelska from the Dziennik Gazeta Prawna daily.