Will the new Polish government launch a renewable energy revolution?

Even though ecology is a key economic and social theme, it was most definitely side-lined during the Polish parliamentary elections of 15 October 2023. The campaign was dominated by other issues: the surveillance of opposition politicians by special services, the role of state-run media, migration policy and the unprecedented enrichment of politicians from the governing Law and Justice (PiS) party through state assets. These subjects stirred a lot more emotion than the future of a coal-based economy or the need to unfreeze the stunted development of wind energy. Michał Olszewski reports. This doesn’t mean that ecology got completely forgotten. The winning Civic Coalition’s 100 policies for the new term of office include the restoration of beneficial billing of renewable energy for prosumers that was abolished by PiS, a promise to create 700 energy communities that will produce their own power, the unblocking of wind energy on land, the presentation of an energy transformation plan that will allow Poland to reduce CO2 emissions by 75% by 2030 compared to 2022, and, last but not least, an …