Environment minister: No threat of energy price rises post-2020
PR dla Zagranicy
Roberto Galea
06.03.2015 08:30
Maciej Grabowski, Poland’s environment minister, has argued in a debate that the EU climate change package will not lead to an increase in Polish energy prices after 2020.
Photo: Flickr.com/Jeff Kubina
The debate was organised by the Polish Press Agency and focused on discussing the effects of a package adopted by the EU in October 2014, which foresees a 40 percent cut in CO2 emissions by 2030 relative to 1990 levels.
Following a threat of veto, Poland was granted several concessions by the EU, including the extension of free emission permit transfers until 2030 instead of 2019, although it is still required to cut CO2 emissions by 2030.
Grabowski commented at the debate, “I cannot see major threats that energy prices paid by final consumers will rise after 2020 as a result of the climate change package.”
He added that “we are on the right path” for fulfilling climate change policy goals for 2020.
Meanwhile Marek Woszczyk, CEO of PGE, Poland’s largest utility, said that the compromises have given Polish firms “a very good starting point for being able to mitigate the effect of realising climate change policy on [energy] prices faced by consumers.” (sl/rg)
Source: PAP