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I support such solution says Polish PM about windfall tax

Last September, the Council of the European Union agreed to impose an EU-wide windfall profits tax on fossil fuel companies to fund relief for households and businesses facing high energy prices, due primarily to Putin’s war on Ukraine). Piotr Polak/PAP

Mateusz Morawiecki, the prime minister, has said that Poland supports the introduction of taxes on excess profits of large international companies as incomes obtained in this way will be used to reduce energy costs for individuals and firms.

EBRD invests over EUR 1.1 bln in Poland's renewables

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has invested, so far, more than EUR 1.1 billion in renewable energy generation in Poland, the majority of which is in windpower plants, EBRD has said.

Regulator will block heating cost hikes, minister says

Poland's energy market regulator URE will block price hikes on district system heating, the climate and environment minister said on Friday.

Government proposes law capping price of coal

A bill guaranteeing the price of coal in Poland has been accepted by the Council of Ministers, the climate and environment minister announced on Tuesday.

Poland for energy transition but will continue coal, official says

Poland will not withdraw from energy transition, but will also continue investing in coal energy, a deputy prime minister said on Monday.

Poland's opposition, trade unionists call for round table on energy

Politicians from the main opposition bloc Civic Coalition (KO) and members of the major trade union Solidarity have urged for round table talks on Poland's energy future.

Polish energy concerns plan takeover of CEZ Group assets in Poland

Energy companies PGNiG and PGE have submitted a joint non-binding offer to acquire the Polish assets of Czech energy concern CEZ Group as part of a strategy to “re-Polonise” the energy sector, the companies said in a Friday press release.

Over EUR 50 bln for Polish energy sector transition in EU budget - PM

Mateusz Morawiecki, the Polish prime minister, has announced that Poland will receive billions of euros in EU funding to help transform its energy sector.

Poland aims to ease windfarm law by year end - development min

The government would like to conclude work on the legislative correction to the so-called distance act, which limits the development of Poland's onshore wind energy, by the end of this year, Deputy PM and Development Minister Jadwiga Emilewicz said on Friday.

Poland's photovoltaic capacity exceeds 2.5 GW

Poland's photovoltaic capacity amounted to 2528.37 MW on 1 September, 2020, up by 168.7 percent year on year, power grid operator Polskie Sieci Energetyczne (PSE) said on Friday.

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Poland sparks Russian anger as it begins changing Kaliningrad road signs to Królewiec

Posting on Twitter, the Ministry of Infrastructure said: “The first signs are already leading to Królewiec. We have just started replacing the boards so that they have Polish name Królewiec, not Kaliningrad.

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Warsaw’s secret war against Moscow’s spies: Poland’s intelligence services have gone into overdrive to combat Putin’s covert assault

The arrest last week of a ‘dangerous’ spy network in Poland is the latest in the country’s secret war against Russian intelligence since Putin’s troops attacked Ukraine.

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