EUROPEAN UNION: Poland has lost opportunity to build green energy sector

EUROPEAN UNION: Poland has lost opportunity to build green energy sector
Poland may have wasted a chance to build a strong green energy sector, Polish Agriculture Minister Marek Sawicki said in an interview with national radio PR1 Thursday morning.

"I think that Poland lost its chance to build and implement renewable energy, despite the fact that we pledged to the European Union that in 2020 that we will have 20% green energy participation rate in total balance of energy consumed in Poland, yet at present we have less than 1%, " Sawicki said. "Nothing has been done concerning the issue for the past two years."

In January, the European Commission announced a list of reforms aimed at cutting the European Union's emission of carbon dioxide (CO2) by 20% in 2020. The renewable-energy targets for each EU state were based on a 2005 starting point that takes into account an increased renewables capacity since 2001, as well as an additional requirement based on countries' wealth and population.

Under the plan, renewable energy must constitute 20% of energy consumption in Poland by 2020. In 2006, renewable energy accounted for 3.2% of all energy consumed in the country, according to the Central Statistical Office (GUS).

Poland is also obliged to cut emission of greenhouse gas by 20% by 2020 and decrease the consumption of energy by 20% and expand the percentage of bio fuels among transport fuels sold in the country by 10% in 2020.


Source: Interfax

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