Constraints on Development of Wind Energy in Poland due to Environmental Objectives. Is There Space in Poland for Wind Farm Siting?

Hajto, Małgorzata; Cichocki, Zdzisław; Bidłasik, Małgorzata; Borzyszkowski, Jan; Kuśmierz, Agnieszka

doi:10.1007/s00267-016-0788-x

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“…In practice, due to the dispersed development of large areas of Poland, the rule led to the collapse of investments in previously dynamically developing renewable energy sources. The restrictive institutional setting and the imposed burdens it brings to investments is sufficiently discussed by Hajto et al [64]. Furthermore, aaccording to Dawid [65], the Act on Wind Energy Investments, make new wind farm investments almost impossible.…”

Section: An Attempt To Interpret the Trajectory Of Poland's Decouplingmentioning

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Assessing the Green Growth Trajectory through Resource and Impact Decoupling Indices: The Case of Poland

Kampas¹,

Rozakis²,

Faber³

et al. 2021

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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This paper uses the most appropriate measures and data sources to map the likely growth delinking of Polish economy for the period 1990-2016. Evidences of green growth exist and were assessed both qualitatively and quantitatively. This paper also examines the likely policy implications by means of cross-correlation analysis. The results indicate that Poland can be conceptualized as a successful paradigm prescribed by the ecological modernization theory since growth is not associated with human pressure on natural resources and does not produce detrimental environmental impacts.

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Section: An Attempt To Interpret the Trajectory Of Poland's Decouplingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing the Green Growth Trajectory through Resource and Impact Decoupling Indices: The Case of Poland

Kampas¹,

Rozakis²,

Faber³

et al. 2021

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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“…This eliminates several investment opportunities in terms of land for wind turbines and their construction (cf. Dawid 2017;Hajto et al 2017;Liebe et al 2017;Sokołowski 2017). By April 2018 the Ministry of Energy announced intents to repeal current taxation rules and distance obligations and restore the law to its previous version.…”

Section: Drivers Of Energy Transitionmentioning

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Energy Governance in the Republic of Poland

Zoll¹

2020

Handbook of Energy Governance in Europe

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Governance of energy transitions has become an issue of growing prominence in the social sciences and in political practice. Examining the understudied case of the "least climate ambitious" European Union Member State, Poland, the investigation demonstrates that it has a highly centralized energy system in decisionmaking. Employing a state-led governance approach, which includes an overlap between political and administrative actors in terms of personal and organizational capacity, the analysis highlights the government to act as the primary actor within the energy sector. As such, it is involved not only in regulating market

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“…Poland's wind conditions are relatively ideal for wind energy development, though they vary regionally and are thus uneven. The northern and central regions are distinctly the most favourable (Hajto et al, 2017). Poland's installed wind power capacity increased from only 18 MW at end-2001 to 6.36 GW at end-2016 and 6.40 GW at end-2017 (Statista, 2018), with this last figure showing a halt in the growing trend.…”

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Security of Energy Supply and Gas Diversification in Poland

Weiner

2018

SSRN Journal

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Poland entered the twenty-first century with an unsustainable energy/electricity mix, strongly overdependent on coal. This situation seems to be changing very slowly, while there are multiple factors that make it imperative for the issue to be urgently addressed. On the one hand, this paper aims to assess the security of the stationary fuel supply by applying the conventional three-dimensional approach, encompassing availability, affordability and sustainability. On the other, we plan to use our own scheme to analyse gas diversification (Weiner, 2017: 6), i.e. a fuel which, alongside coal, is a very sensitive issue linked to the security of the Polish electric power fuel supply. We demonstrate that the three-dimensional approach is also appropriate for addressing the issue of supply security in the case of a country with a securitized energy agenda based on fears of problems with the availability and affordability of Russian gas supplies. It also highlights Poland's concern over foreign technological reliance regarding renewables production. We show how the energy perspective, the institutional context, as well as perceptions regarding threat, dependence and Russia influence choices made from among different security of supply dimensions. We find that though the role of coal will surely decrease, there is great uncertainty about Poland's energy policy and security of supply because of deficiencies in infrastructure and the unknown future role of the particular fuels in the energy/electricity mix, also expected to include nuclear. We can observe that every energy policy step possible is being taken to maintain the role of coal, and Poland moves toward sustainability only as much and as soon as it is required by its EU membership. Not only does the coal industry capture Poland's energy policy, but also geopolitical considerations cement reliance on coal, providing low energy import dependence. Regarding gas, we find that since the January 2009 Russian-Ukrainian gas crisis, Poland has taken action to diversify its gas supplies, and it has finally achieved results, but there is still a lot of uncertainty surrounding Russian gas imports.

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Constraints on Development of Wind Energy in Poland due to Environmental Objectives. Is There Space in Poland for Wind Farm Siting?

Cited by 28 publications

References 31 publications

Assessing the Green Growth Trajectory through Resource and Impact Decoupling Indices: The Case of Poland

Assessing the Green Growth Trajectory through Resource and Impact Decoupling Indices: The Case of Poland

Energy Governance in the Republic of Poland

Security of Energy Supply and Gas Diversification in Poland

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