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Poland wants to achieve EU 2020 Renewable Energy targets

1 March 2019

As previously announced, the Ministry of Energy prepared a draft amendment to the Act on Renewable Energy Sources (hereinafter “RES Act”) – on 28 February 2019 the draft was published and submitted for public consultation. The intention of the draft initiators is to allow for conducting auctions for new RES projects with a total installed capacity above 3.4 GW (including 2.5 GW for new wind farms and 750 MW for new solar farms) still in 2019. Assuming that all new installations to win this year’s auction start generating energy before the end of 2020, Poland might achieve the EU 2020 targets at the very last moment, by bridging the investment gap of the last several years.

The draft amendment to the RES Act also proposes further, highly controversial changes to the functioning of the green certificate scheme.

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