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The German Ministry of Economy and Environment has not yet released the files on the Nord Stream 2 project requested by journalists. The court will force the ministry to do so. The politician at the centre of the scandal will visit Poland soon.

Poland’s Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk announced a „quick audit” on whether locating the NPP in Pomerania is reasonable.

 „We want to foster social acceptance for nuclear power,” says Henryk Borczyk, Vice-Chairman of the Board of the Metropolis GZM in an interview with BiznesAlert.pl.

The nascent wind farm industry in Poland is calling for the liberalisation of regulations that would decrease the distance from buildings to 500 meters.

The Prime Minister has announced that the decision on the Government Plenipotentiary for Strategic Energy Infrastructure would be made next week.

„The Climate Ministry plans to present a draft onshore wind farm bill by the end of the first quarter of this year,” Minister of Climate and Environment Paulina Hennig – Kloska told Radio ZET on Tuesday. The head of the ministry said that the project, which was presented at the end of last year, was […]

The energy crisis initiated before Russia invaded Ukraine may be the final one thanks to Gazprom’s impressive suicide in Europe. Russia may resort to hybrid war tools more frequently considering the growing number of incidents with „unknown perpetrators” – writes Wojciech Jakóbik, editor in chief at BiznesAlert.pl.

According to data published by Forum Energii, the share of renewables in energy generation broke records a few times in 2023. Combined with PV generation, biomass and hydropower (0.2 TWh each), renewables accounted for 25.3 percent of the generation mix in December. This is 9.4 percentage points more than in the same month of 2022.

Poland was able to reserve more than 7 GW of capacity obligations at the capacity market auction held on December 14, 2023. In exchange for support, the participants in the auction committed to providing such capacity, including 1 GW from abroad.

The structure of daily power generation in 2021-2023 has changed in favor of wind energy. Renewable energy sources in Poland will develop better if a number of conditions are met, Kamil Moskwik from the Jagiellonian Institute tells BiznesAlert.pl.