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Reuters: Poland urges Germany to speed up Rosneft’s exit from Schwedt refinery According to Reuters, Poland’s Climate Minister Anna Moskwa said that „Germany needs to speed up the sale of Russian energy group Rosneft’s majority stake in the Schwedt refinery for Poland to deliver in full on a crucial supply deal for the refinery”. Refinery […]

After last year’s preparations, which included selecting the technology for Poland’s first NPP and choosing the location for small reactors, the time has come to face the red tape. Reactors are not built without meeting environmental and safety standards, and these are verified by the relevant administrative bodies.

Orlen: 5 million tons of diesel is missing in Poland „In Poland, there is a shortage of about 5 million tons of diesel and it needs to be imported,” said Marek Wocial from the PKN Orlen Wholesale Price Coordination Office. He added that too little fuel on world markets has caused prices to rise even […]

„A high degree of energy self-sufficiency – understood primarily as the sufficiency of domestic generation capacity, and secondly as the lack of dependence on energy imports and energy carriers – strengthens the resilience of the state,” the Government Plenipotentiary for Strategic Energy Infrastructure Anna Trzeciakowska told BiznesAlert.pl.

The government is planning to introduce changes to facilitate the integration of the growing number of renewable energy sources in Poland. This includes dynamic tariffs and a new role for the grid operator located at an HQ dubbed Fort Knox.

Special act on nuclear power to be amended Minister of Climate and Environment Anna Moskwa said that work was underway on an amendment to the nuclear law. „In July 2023, we want to adopt a draft of a more comprehensive amendment to the investment in nuclear energy law, which is to simplify and accelerate investments […]

By 2040, Poland will spend approx. PLN 726.4 billion, 86 percent of which is spent on renewables, results from the published scenario for consultations on the preliminary update of the energy strategy, i.e. Poland’s Energy Policy Until 2040 (PEP2040), have revealed.

Poland’s first nuclear power plant will be safe. The National Atomic Energy Agency (PAA) has issued a general opinion on the safety analysis of the nuclear power plant in Pomerania. „This is the first such opinion in the country in the field of nuclear safety. The scope of the planned, independent verification of safety analyses […]

PGE Dystrybucja has signed a contract with Sweden’s Ericsson, for the supply and deployment of components necessary for the expansion of special communications needed to ensure energy infrastructure is properly secured.

„We are going to the Court of Justice of the European Union,” said the Minister of Climate and Environment Anna Moskwa on Radio ZET. According to Poland, the formal and legal bases for accelerating the EU’s climate policy have not been completed. The motion to the CJEU is due in a few days.