Poland's biggest opposition grouping plans to kick-start the country's lagging transition from coal if it wins next month's tightly contested election, the party's energy expert said.
The country's coal-dominated electricity mix translates into Europe's highest power prices, while a heavy carbon footprint could in the longer run hamper its potential to attract greenfield projects or to export power-guzzling products such as steel.
Its aim is to achieve between 65% and 70% of Poland's energy production from renewable energy sources by 2030, he said.The opposition plan - which according to Onichimowski is supported by PO's potential coalition partners, the smaller left wing and centrist groupings - includes unbundling of the state-controlled power utilities to ease access to the grid for renewable capacity.
Most opinion polls show the ruling Law and Justice party and its smaller allies leading the election race. But some surveys show its advantage is narrow enough that PO could have a shot at forming a majority coalition with smaller parties. "I would not overestimate the issue of energy transformation in the election," said Michal Hetmanski, head of Instrat, a Warsaw-based think-tank advising on public policy.
PiS has introduced subsidies for household consumers installing heat pumps and solar panels, but has blocked the development of onshore wind for most of its eight years in power and promised unions to keep mining coal until 2049.
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