Impact assessment of climate policy on Poland's power sector

Skoczkowski, Tadeusz; Bielecki, S.; Węglarz, Arkadiusz; Włodarczak, Magdalena; Gutowski, Piotr

doi:10.1007/s11027-018-9786-z

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“…The I&S industry may in the future encounter a barrier of assessing to bank financing for high emission investments like it occurred in the power sector in coal-based technologies [ 142 , 143 ].…”

Section: Identification Of Barriers and Inducements Discussionmentioning

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Technology innovation system analysis of decarbonisation options in the EU steel industry

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Decarbonisation of the iron and steel (I&S) industry is crucial in the efforts to meet the EU GHG emission reduction objectives in 2030 … 2050. Promoting decarbonisation in this sector will necessarily require the identification, development, and diffusion of breakthrough technologies for I&S production. This paper uses an approach inspired by the Technology Innovation System (TIS) to analyse the development of technology in the EU I&S industry and identify potential avenues of its decarbonisation. We have described key elements of the TIS, analyse the functioning of these elements and their interactions in a more general context of innovation dynamics and policy design; The focus has been put on the role of actors and the identification of the main specific blocking and inducement mechanism in the TIS to better explain its functioning. Risks and uncertainties have also been discussed. We argue that deep decarbonisation in the I&S industry is feasible but its TIS requires firm support, mostly political, to finance intensive R&D and reduce the business risk. To this end, all actors shall support more effectively the invention and implementation of new radical production technologies. The recommendations are mostly addressed to politicians although stressing the importance of collaboration of all actors.

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Section: Identification Of Barriers and Inducements Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Technology innovation system analysis of decarbonisation options in the EU steel industry

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Energy

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“…The development of renewable sources is supported by climate policy aimed at decarbonisation [70] and promoting sustainable development. In the last aspect, it should be emphasized that based on Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 of the European Parliament and of the Council [71], since March 2021, institutional investors (funds, banks and insurers), asset managers and financial advisors have been taking into account the risks for sustainable development in their investment decisions and advice, which will result in an increased interest in various forms of support for initiatives favouring mechanisms for efficient and sustainable use of energy resources, and thus also in balancing methods that promote the minimal loss-making use of energy from renewable sources by all groups of users.…”

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Impact of the Lockdown during the COVID-19 Pandemic on Electricity Use by Residential Users

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The COVID-19 pandemic and the associated lockdown can be regarded as a forced social experiment, the results of which show how to use energy under specific conditions. During this period, there was a reduction in electricity consumption at the level of the power system, but a different specificity distinguishes the group of household users. The article aims at presenting and analysing the identified issues concerning residential electricity users based on the experience from the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. Data from energy meters from almost 7000 flats in Warsaw’s housing estates during the lockdown in 2020 and the analogous period before the pandemic were used. The analysis showed that, on average, residential users staying practically the whole day in their flats increased their energy consumption, but without increasing their average daily peak power, smoothing the profile in the morning hours to the level reaching the peak power that had occurred in the analogous period before the lockdown. The peak power of the sections feeding the different numbers of dwellings also remained practically unchanged during the lockdown compared to the pre-pandemic period. The pressure to work and educate remotely should contribute to an increase in the digital competence of society, which may result in an increased interest in new forms of activity and cooperation based on demand-side response and prosumption mechanisms, with digital settlements for energy exchange and services.

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“…Real benefits and costs of the energy transition should be fairly allocated to all stakeholders and communicated to society. The social costs and implications in coal-dependent regions may be high, especially in the short-term perspective, but then the transformation will bring profits to the whole society [69].…”

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The Challenges of Poland’s Energy Transition

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The ongoing climate changes necessitate an effective climate policy. The energy transition is now an important topic and problem, especially in Poland. (1) The undertaken analysis of the problem of energy transition is important for political, social and technological reasons. Political, because it shows the weakness of the implementation of Polish energy policy in regards to climate change. Social, because energy transition will bring about significant social changes in the largest industrial region of Poland. Technological, as the departure from fossil fuels requires the introduction of other sources of energy on a massive scale, for which Poland is not prepared. The aim of the study was to critically analyse the activities to date in the field of energy transition in Poland. The second goal of the analysis was an attempt to answer the question of whether the process of energy transition and achieving the goals set in the EU’s European Green Deal are possible at all until 2050. (2) To achieve the goals, the system method and the decision-making method were primarily used. These methods allowed for an examination of the main determinants of the Polish energy transformation. (3) The main results include the confirmation, contrary to the announcements of the Polish government, that despite the adoption in Poland of the strategy “Poland’s energy policy until 2040”, the effective implementation of the energy transition before 2050 is not only very difficult, but may even be impossible to implement in the assumed time. This is due to political, economic, social and technological conditions. Coal energy is outdated, expensive and ineffective. Due to natural conditions, wind energy is not able to meet the energy demand of the industry. The development of nuclear energy is only in the planning phase. (4) To sum up, in the next thirty years, Poland will not be able to achieve the assumed effects of the energy transition, which is in contradiction with the official declaration of the government.

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Impact assessment of climate policy on Poland's power sector

Cited by 32 publications

References 30 publications

Technology innovation system analysis of decarbonisation options in the EU steel industry

Technology innovation system analysis of decarbonisation options in the EU steel industry

Impact of the Lockdown during the COVID-19 Pandemic on Electricity Use by Residential Users

The Challenges of Poland’s Energy Transition

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