Where is that Reliable Coal Energy When We Need it? Poland faces Energy Shortage
We are constantly lectured in Poland about how reliable the conventional energy system is and how unreliable renewable energy is. Reality, however, suggests that our neighboring countries with diversified energy supplies are much more secure, much more reliable and now actually cheaper.
While Poland struggles with a 30-year old energy infrastructure, built by the communists who seemed incapable of building a reliable automobile, our neighbors have shifted to a large mix of renewable energy technologies that add alternative sources of power that generally compliment each other.
As energy storage is also deployed all around us, the future of electricity supply seems to be alluding Poland. The government seems locked into 1960s thinking about these issues.
Now a new report indicates that energy shortages may again appear in Poland in the late summer. Because, guess what, coal is unreliable under certain weather conditions (hot weather, high demand, and low water levels).
Not only are we seeing the cost of new coal plants grow larger than onshore wind, but without the line of investors and banks willing to fund them, but now we seem to be experiencing the negative side of a lack of energy diversification.
While Poland struggles with a 30-year old energy infrastructure, built by the communists who seemed incapable of building a reliable automobile, our neighbors have shifted to a large mix of renewable energy technologies that add alternative sources of power that generally compliment each other.
As energy storage is also deployed all around us, the future of electricity supply seems to be alluding Poland. The government seems locked into 1960s thinking about these issues.
Now a new report indicates that energy shortages may again appear in Poland in the late summer. Because, guess what, coal is unreliable under certain weather conditions (hot weather, high demand, and low water levels).
Not only are we seeing the cost of new coal plants grow larger than onshore wind, but without the line of investors and banks willing to fund them, but now we seem to be experiencing the negative side of a lack of energy diversification.
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