Poland's National Energy and Climate Plan with nearly 3k comments during public consultations
During public consultations regarding the updated National Energy and Climate Plans (KPEiK) a significant number of comments and objections were submitted, which Poland's Ministry of Climate and Environment (MKiS) is currently analysing and working on further, climate deputy minister of climate and environment Urszula Zielinska told Polish economic chamber KIG conference. A representative of the ministry clarified that almost 3,000 comments had been received.
"Our preliminary updated National Energy and Climate Plans (KPEiK) (...) is not perfect; you have plenty of comments and objections - we have received them and are currently analysing them, and we are working on it further," Zielinska addressed the conference participants.
The climate deputy minister noted that Poland's National Energy and Climate Plans (KPEiK) for 2030 presents two pathways.
"One pathway is to maintain 'business-as-usual.' This is a more expensive path; it will cost us more, it is associated with higher energy prices, greater challenges, and risks," she stressed.
As Zielinska pointed out, there is also a pathway proposed by the climate ministry, which is the active transformation pathway.
"Some call it a more ambitious pathway; others dislike the word ambitious and want to talk about realistic plans. I see it as a realistic pathway for economic acceleration," the deputy minister emphasised.
She stated that a comprehensive analysis conducted by the climate ministry's analysts and emission management authority KOBiZE indicates that the active transformation scenario could achieve economic growth twice as fast as the average European forecasted until the end of 2030 - above 4 percent compared to Europe's 1.7 percent.
On November 14, the European Commission urged Poland and 12 other EU countries to urgently submit their final updated National Energy and Climate Plans. This is the first step in the EC's procedure related to violations of EU law.
In October, the climate ministry submitted the active transformation scenario of KPEiK for public consultations until mid-November.
As the deputy minister Urszula Zielinska stated at that time, at the end of the consultations, a leading scenario for KPEiK would be selected - either the baseline or active transformation scenario. She added that the government's ambition is to adopt the document by the end of the year, after which it will be sent to Brussels.
The preliminary baseline scenario (WEM) was submitted to Brussels in March.
According to the ambitious scenario of KPEiK, national consumption of hard coal for energy production in 2030 should not exceed 22.5 million tons, which is 7.5 million tons less than predicted by the baseline scenario.
In 2023, Polish mines produced about 49 million tons of hard coal. Additionally, the ambitious scenario predicts a 32.6 percent share of renewable energy sources in final gross energy consumption, compared to 29.8 percent in the baseline scenario.
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