Poland’s energy security requires ensuring the supply of an adequate amount of electricity at reasonable costs, while simultaneously maintaining environmental protection requirements, which result, for example, from the climate and energy package adopted by the European Union. This package forces European Union countries, among other things, to limit the operation of high CO2 emission sources in favor of those with low emissions of this gas, and this in turn requires countries to make changes to their energy production structure.
In Poland, a plan for such changes was included in the document “Energy Policy of Poland until 2030”, which was adopted by the Council of Ministers on November 10, 2009. The plan contains appropriate energy policy priorities, among which one of the basic directions is the diversification of the electricity generation structure through the introduction of nuclear energy. In accordance with this policy, the current government plans to launch the first nuclear power plant by 2022, and by 2030, 2 are to be in operation, with a total capacity of at least 6000 MWe. (…)
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Source: Logistyka Magazine 5/2011