This article is part of our special report Poland’s energy transition.
The Turów coal mine and power plant complex is “strategic for ensuring the energy security of Poland,” says PGE, the state-owned enterprise at the centre of a dispute with the Czech Republic over the extension of mining operations there.
In a rare move for an EU country, the Czech Republic took Poland before the European Court of Justice last February for extending mining operations at an open-pit coal mine near Turów, a Polish village just over the border.
EU judges are currently examining the complaint and could order temporary closure of the mine.
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Poland seeks to nationalise coal plants so firms can finance green investments
Warsaw’s energy transition proposals will require state aid approval from the European Commission, which is expected to insist on a coal exit date
The Polish government is planning to nationalise dozens of coal plants and use public money to keep them running to allow state-owned energy companies to invest in greener alternatives.
The proposal by the ministry of state assets is part of negotiations between the government and energy companies to restructure the ailing coal sector.
Under the plan, 70 lignite coal units, which generated more than half of Poland’s electricity in 2020, will be purchased by the state and handed over to a single state-run National Energy Security Agency (NABE).
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After a failed attempt last year, the European Commission is finally presenting today (21 April) its first batch of implementing rules under the EU’s sustainable finance taxonomy, laying down detailed technical criteria for what can be labelled a “green” investment in the EU.
In doing so, the EU executive will also open a new chapter in what can now be branded as the European ‘taxonomy wars’.
The first chapter was opened in December 2019 when Britain and France – backed at the time by Bulgaria, Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia – blocked a deal on the EU taxonomy regulation, the overarching law which sets out the key principles of sustainable finance at European level.
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