New pro-EU authorities proposes to scale back wind turbine setback from 1,500 m to 300 m

Poland’s incoming authorities submitted a draft regulation to freeze power costs within the first half of 2024 and liberalize guidelines to construct wind farms.

The draft regulation would scale back a minimal distance between a turbine and a residential space to about 300 metres from the present 1,500 metres relying on the extent of noise emitted by the set up.

And the draft proposes to revive the duty to commerce electrical energy on the nation’s power trade, which was abolished by the outgoing Legislation and Justice (PiS) authorities.

The incoming authorities to be shaped by the pro-European events plans to kick-start the nation’s lagging transition from coal to realize as much as 70% of power manufacturing from renewable sources by 2030 from about 15% final yr.

Poland has one in all Europe’s highest spot energy costs because it produces some 70% of electrical energy from coal

Vitality costs together with electrical energy, fuel and district heating can be frozen for households and so-called susceptible shoppers together with colleges and hospitals, the draft regulation says.

Assist can be financed from the COVID-19 Fund, by way of a mechanism arrange in 2022 to mitigate the results of the power disaster and funded from contributions by Poland’s high oil and fuel companies.

The largest contributor to the fund is oil and fuel firm Orlen. Earlier this yr, the corporate stated it anticipated to contribute 14 billion zloty to the fund in 2023.

PiS launched subsidies for family shoppers putting in warmth pumps and photo voltaic panels, however blocked the event of onshore wind for many of its eight years in energy. ($1 = 3.9507 zlotys)