From millions to billions… everything requires subsidies. This energy transition is not going well. Something strange is happening to the energy industry – or we’re just getting older faster than we understand the new realities. It used to be that profitability counted straightforwardly, power plants were built, and energy companies made steady money. Half a century ago, they were the favourite investments of American pension funds […]
Energy Transformation Fund… another national epic that will establish the Fund once the certificates run out. It already seemed that the Energy Transformation Fund (FTE) topic had disappeared from public and political discussion. But suddenly, electrifying news circulated in the media—the Ministry of Climate and Environment (MoC) plans to prepare a draft law establishing the Fund this fall or next spring at the latest. For […]
Lately, it’s not even funny in the energy industry anymore, but only funny-bitter-sad. The mining unions are different – always unanimous (bitterly). The problem with coal and mining continues all the time. Demand for coal is falling (RES is overgrowing), overproduction and growing coal piles. Despite the complicated geopolitical situation, world energy markets have relatively low prices. There are too high domestic production costs to […]
It’s surprising, but the European Commission reads documents—e.g., the NECP (National Energy and Climate Plan)… Total surprise in decision-making circles and all those interested in cooperation within the European Union was aroused by the news that the European Commission has sent questions about the preliminary version of the Polish National Energy and Climate Plan. The surprise, above all, was that it turned out that someone […]
Why can’t power engineers comment on energy topics? Imagine the famous “Lviv School of Mathematics” if suddenly, during the famous discussions and solving of epoch-making mathematical problems in cafes, they suddenly found that they got completely different results than they had assumed, or Oppenheimer leading the team creating the bomb, who suddenly perceives that the chain reaction does not work, or Schroedinger, who nevertheless built […]