Poland needs cheap energy sources to make drop in electricity prices possible, says FinMin

"Energy prices for Polish families and Polish companies must fall. To make this possible, we need cheap energy sources. Onshore wind turbines are the cheapest. It's simple. However, the president decided otherwise," Domanski wrote on X.

Poland's President Karol Nawrocki announced on Thursday that he had vetoed the amendment to the so-called wind farm law, which also includes provisions on freezing electricity prices until the end of the year.

Nawrocki also announced that he would submit a bill to the Sejm freezing energy prices, "literally taken out" of the wind farm law, and that he would be ready to sign it on September 24 at earliest.

At the beginning of August, the lower house of Poland's parliament, Sejm, supported most of the Senate's amendments to the amendment to the so-called wind farm act.

In addition to provisions liberalising the rules for investing in onshore wind turbines, the amendment freezes electricity prices for households until the end of this year.

This concerns an amendment to the act on investments in wind power plants and certain other acts. The main purpose of the act is to liberalise the existing regulations on investments in onshore wind turbines. The amendment abolishes the 10H rule introduced in 2016 and introduces 500 metres as the minimum permissible distance of new wind turbines from residential buildings. Currently, it is 700 metres.

In addition to the provisions on the construction of wind turbines, the act includes a provision introduced during parliamentary proceedings extending the freeze on electricity prices for households at PLN 500 per MWh net until the fourth quarter of 2025. Currently, the freeze is in force until the end of September.

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