CO2 emissions.

Last Wednesday the European Commission decided to open an infringement procedure against Poland for failing to completely transpose the EU Industrial Emissions Directive – Onet.pl has reported.

One of Poland’s ministers has recently told the media that Poland was ready to adopt the new 90 percent CO2 emissions reduction target by 2040. A Deputy Prime Minister has already denied this, but reality will tell – writes Wojciech Jakóbik, editor in chief at BiznesAlert.pl.

„Out of all the coal asset producers whose role has changed, we are the biggest one. Today, they are the stabilizer of the national energy system because, unlike wind farms, they are stable,” said Norbert Grudzień, VP for Operations and Transformation at PGE GiEK, during the DISE Energy Congress in Wrocław.

Poland’s Gaz-System is taking part in talks on the construction of a hydrogen pipeline by the Baltic Sea and storing carbon dioxide in salt caves. An appropriate state strategy is already being developed.

Actually, the moment when Germany formally abandons coal does not play a bigger role, because it is not the time that emits CO2, only the combustion of this fuel. Coal companies are therefore in a hurry to extract as much as possible – says Christopher Laumanns from the organization Alle Dörfer bleiben in an interview […]

Currently, the Middle Kingdom is facing the most intense and longest heat wave, which has been going on for nearly 70 days, making it the longest in more than six decades. In July alone, the heatwave caused economic losses estimated at CNY 2.73 billion (USD 400 million) and affected 5.5 million people from the Sichuan […]

On Wednesday, 15 December 2021, the European Commission presented a comprehensive package on decarbonizing the gas sector, including through support for the low-carbon biomethane and hydrogen. The proposals include a new regulation, which is to contribute to limiting methane emissions in the energy industry. The role of gas in the energy transition depends to a […]

Over the last months, we have been witnessing exceptional turmoil on the energy and gas markets in Europe. The price spike, severely felt by customers, made us aware of the EU’s vulnerability to disturbances on the global markets, potential manipulations by dominant suppliers and exposure to external risks, such as fuel supply shocks. Most importantly, […]

What goes on in Poland on the 9th of December.

The PKEE members are committed to achieve climate neutrality and the 55% emissions reduction target. As pointed out by i.a. Eurelectric, if carbon neutrality in the entire economy is to be achieved by 2050, hard-to-abate sectors need to be electrified, which cannot be implemented with skyrocketing power prices, observed nowadays in Europe. In Poland, carbon […]