energy.

What goes on in Poland on the 14th of December.

The European Commission approved under EU State aid rules a Polish renewable energy scheme and a reduced levy to finance the scheme for energy-intensive users. This will further EU energy and climate goals and ensure the global competitiveness of energy-intensive users whilst preserving competition.

– The cost of the capacity charge will be less than PLN 2 per month for the largest group of households. For non-household end users, the capacity charge will depend on the electricity consumption at certain hours of the day – Teresa Wójcik, editor of BiznesAlert.pl, counts.

Currently, every fifth barrel of crude oil processed at the Gdańsk Refinery comes from other direction than the East. The authorities want a further diversification and are afraid of a terrorist attack on transmission infrastructure, which is why as part of the oil policy they are planning to build the second line of the Pomeranian […]

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

LOTOS purchased another cargo of US oil. A tanker carrying 650,000 barrels (i.e. about 80,000 tonnes) of US WTI Midland crude is on its way to Naftoport in Gdańsk. The transaction is in line with LOTOS’s consistently pursued strategy for diversification of supply sources. All decisions to purchase crude oil are taken on a case-by-case basis, […]

The future of energy, the importance of the role of the consumer, new technologies and the EU legal frameworks. This is what the experts from all over Europe are discussing in Paris today (5.12) during the conference „Electricity: Welcome to The world of Tomorrow”, organized under the patronage of French President Emmanuel Macron. The Polish […]

The planned Baltic Pipe gas pipeline, connecting the Polish and Danish gas transmission system, is to have a capacity of 10 billion cubic meters per year. It is supposed to be ready by October 2022.

Although in media we could read about a threat to the Baltic Pipe project realization, The Polish are convinced that the investment shall be realized without any disturbances. The territorial dispute with Denmark won’t pose a threat to it – writes Wojciech Jakóbik, editor-in-chief of BiznesAlert.pl writes about it.

Applying the EU’s Third Energy Package rules to Nord Stream 2 is possible, but Russia has tools to sidestep the regulations. If that happens, access to the pipeline for exporters independent of Gazprom and the Russian state would be illusory. The European Commission can prevent this scenario by ensuring the application of EU law not […]