On Thursday, July 28th, me and Jakub Wiech, also an editor at Energetyka24.com, interviewed the Minister of Climate of Poland, Anna Moskwa. It lasted for an hour and covered many current issues regarding Polish and EU energy. We asked Moskwa, who is a minister since October 2021, about the coal crisis. She denied that there…
Poland’s peculiar coal problem
The shoemaker’s children are ill-shod, saying teaches. And there is folk wisdom to it, because Poland, the world’s 9th biggest coal producer and by far largest in Europe, has run out of it. The year is 2022. The whole of Europe has been decarbonized, at least in a sense of coal production. But the last…
EU green taxonomy with gas and nuclear energy
A battle over EU green taxonomy lasted till the very end, the final vote on the issue in European Parliament. Two energy sources were the main bone of contention – natural gas and nuclear energy.
New Energy Bretton Woods
Europe is facing a major energy shake-up as a departure from Russian fossil fuels and climate ambitions collide creating an unprecedented storm whose final results nobody can predict. We are in a transitional period and that is becoming obvious to everyone. Roaring twenties are so far dreadful or Hitchckok-like twenties. It began with the unprecedented…