Coal or cool? Poland's energy sector in industrial transition mode

euronews (in English)

Poland's energy sector has significantly reduced emissions of harmful pollutants in recent years. But after the revision of the EU Industrial Emissions Directive, the country is still heavily relying on combustion plants.

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00:00Poland does not have a nuclear power plant yet.

00:04We are also not in a position to develop large-scale hydropower.

00:09We also cannot fully rely on import of the energy

00:13because here we are talking about electricity and heat as well.

00:17Poland has one of the biggest district heating network in the EU.

00:21So in this transitional period we still need to rely on combustion plants.

00:26The implementation of the IED was a kind of two-fold exercise

00:31because the first important milestone was achieved in 2016.

00:37And already back then, for example, emission of sulfur dioxide dropped by 40%.

00:43We also had to implement the BET conclusions.

00:47And when you compare data from 2023 with data on emissions from 2016,

00:55so already those reduced.

00:57You can see that, for example, in terms of dust, emission dropped by 80%.

01:02That's why now we work intensively to transpose revised IED,

01:07so IED 2.0 to the national legislation,

01:11because for sure it will bring further emission reduction.

01:15And here we will also have to work on other aspects,

01:20like, for example, increase uptake on innovation by the industry,

01:24and also by providing incentives for the operators

01:30to transform towards climate-neutral and circular economy.

01:35It's incredible.

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