Polish government to fight smog with lower electricity rates
PR dla Zagranicy
Victoria Bieniek
22.01.2018 15:47
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Polish government to fight smog with lower electricity rates
The Polish government aims to tackle air pollution by introducing new lower electricity tariffs.
The southern city of Kraków and a nearby powerplant. Photo: Jar.ciurus/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0 pl)
The move aims to encourage Poles to move away from using coal furnaces, one of the main sources of smog which, according to estimates, kills some 50,000 Poles each year.
Polish Energy Minister Krzysztof Tchórzewski has also announced a plan to introduce special night electricity tariffs, which, compared "to the current day tariff... might be up to ten times cheaper."
Tomasz Ferenc has more...