coal.

In this children’s game only one person has a blindfold on while trying to tag the other players. I am not sure whether only one person has their eyes covered in the hard-core version of the game that is played by Poland’s hard coal mining industry – writes Karolina Baca-Pogorzelska from Dziennik Gazeta Prawna daily.

The upcoming heating season is bringing back the problem of supplying Ukrainian power and CHP stations with anthracite. Last February the government in Kiev declared a state of energy emergency because, among others, Donbas’s black gold deliveries were blocked. The necessity to secure stable and regular coal deliveries for the energy and steel sectors forced […]

The declaration made in Krynica by the Minister of Energy Krzysztof Tchórzewski that the Ostrołęka power plant will be the last new coal-fired power plant in Poland is certainly a step in the right direction, but we cannot talk about a full pivot yet, this is more about stopping moving in a direction that is […]

The Enea Group and its Bogdanka Coal Mine released their financial results for the first quarter of 2017. According to the company the construction of the new 1075 MW unit no. 11 in Kozienice has been completed at about 99%. Enea’s Bogdanka mine located near Lublin presented data on coal production in Poland and its […]

What goes on in Poland on the 11th of September.

At the Economic Forum in Krynica representatives of the government and state-owned companies are implying they are ready to adopt an energy policy that is less dependent on coal – writes Wojciech Jakóbik, BiznesAlert.pl’s editor in chief.

Today the times for hard coal are a lot better, but the situation has to be assessed differently for Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa (JSW) and for the steam coal industry. The situation at the Bogdanka mine is different than at the Silesia mine, it is different for Tauron Wydobycie and for Polska Grupa Górnicza (PGG) – […]

Emissions trading is a one-of-a-kind instrument in environmental policy. By putting a cap on the total amount of emissions and distributing the available emissions among the participating companies in the form of tradeable allowances, an emissions trading system (ETS) creates the only commodity market in the world where it pays to produce less.

I have been writing about coal for the past 10 years. But it seems like I have a continuing deja vu. And it is said that men learn from mistakes… – writes Karolina Baca-Pogorzelska a journalist at Gazeta Prawna daily. 

What goes on in Poland on the 30th of August.