Category: NEWS
BA: BUSTING COMMON SMOG MYTHS
As Energetyka24 published its survey about air pollution in Poland, which shows great misconception about the subject among common folks, Polishcoaldaily‘s Founder and former Editor rush along to bust some myths in the latest article for Biznes Alert.
BA: WAR ON SMOG COULD BE PROFITABLE
Polishcoaldaily‘s Founder and former Editor commenting for BiznesAlert the subject of thermo-modernization, which in his opinion should be the top priority when facing the issue of air pollution, that became an inherent element of Polish winter.
PR24: NEW LAW ON STEAM COAL QUALITY [AUDIO]
Polishcoaldaily‘s Founder and former Editor hosted in Polish Radio 24 to talk a little about the new act on steam coal parameters. Is it really crucial in a fight against polluted air, is Dublin case (ban on coal sales within city limits) a good example for Poland and should minister Emilewicz incriminate Polish traders?
TG: CHINA WILL MERGE MINING COMPANIES
Chinese National Development & Reform Commission plans to create several “super-large” coal mining companies by the end of 2020 as the world’s biggest producer of the fuel ramps up years of efforts to streamline the fragmented sector and slash outdated capacity.
PR24: NEW LAW ON STEAM COAL QUALITY
Polishcoaldaily‘s Founder and former Editor hosted in Polish Radio 24 to talk a little about the new act on steam coal parameters. Is it really crucial in a fight against polluted air, is Dublin case (ban on coal sales within city limits) a good example for Poland and should minister Emilewicz incriminate Polish traders?
REO: WILL PHILIPS LEAVE POLISH MARKET?
In recent months there has been some rumours, that Philips Lighting (a hegemon in the Polish LED business) is leaving the Central Europe market to move their operations elsewhere, and that the Dutch has already made a sales offer of their assets to a Canadian company.
DGP: KRUPINSKI AS A POWER PLANT DISPUTE
In mid-2017, JSW signed a letter of intent with 3 construction companies regarding cooperation to identify the possibility of building a pumped hydroelectric energy storage in soon-to-be-closed Krupinski mine. Polishcoaldaily‘s Founder and former Editor comment for K. Baca-Pogorzelska’s story.
TG: DO WE HAVE TO CHASE THE MEGATRENDS?
There are trends and developments in the energy industry that most observers agree are likely to be around for the long term, which are called ‘megatrends’. One of them is a trend of moving towards renewable energy and leaving fossils. But do we necessarily have to meet them as soon as possible?
PRESS: THE NEW REO.PL WITH NEW TEAM
“Energy, climate, revolution” – that’s the new slogan of entirely new reo.pl, which just started two days ago with the new staff behind it: P. Wojcik (Gazeta Polska Codziennie), W. Jurasz (former ambassador of Poland to Venezuela), R. Sznepf (former ambassador of Poland to Paraguay) and Polishcoaldaily‘s Founder.
REO: NEW OPPORTUNITIES IN STREET LIGHTING
In following months a new bill will be introduced, which will allow the 2.5k municipalities in Poland to reclaim ownership of street lighting from energy companies. This will allow them to modernize their systems in order to obtain savings for taxpayers.
NETTG: SWP DOESN’T PLAN TO BAN COAL
Polishcoaldaily‘s Founder and former Editor cover of the recent Pomeranian Regional Assembly, where councillors discussed the appropriate approach towards the fight against the polluted air, which should not turn into a fight against coal – as majority of them are convinced to.
REO: D. SALAMADRY – ENERGY SIMMETRIST
Polishcoaldaily‘s Founder and former Editor in an interview by Dorota M. Zielinska, explaining how he got into energy sector, how can he cooperate with eco-enthusiast while he himself is known as rather eco-sceptic and what happened in the dynamics between him and Centre of Analysis of the Jagiellonian Club?
D. S. IN POMERANIAN REGIONAL ASSEMBLY
In the name of Chamber of Polish Coal Traders, Polishcoaldaily‘s Founder and former Editor was addressing councillors of Pomeranian Regional Assembly on the appropriate approach towards the fight against the polluted air, which should not turn into a fight against coal.
RADIO WNET: AGAIN ON THE SMOG
Polishcoaldaily‘s Founder and former Editor was invited by Krzysztof Skowroński to Radio Wnet morning programme to talk a little about the smog, which was recently a cause of yet another clash between European Union and Polish government, as the EU court says Poland violated air quality laws in 2007-2015.
REO: ENERGY AUDIT AND WHAT HAPPENS LATER?
By 31st October around 5k largest Polish companies had to present in the Energy Regulatory Office the results of their mandatory energy audits. What were the main issues connected with the new law and will happen next in the area of energy efficiency in these companies?
TG: THE END OF THE END OF WAR ON COAL – PT. 2
Late last year, Rick Perry’s Department of Energy issued a notice of proposed rulemaking asking the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to bail out beleaguered coal and nuclear plants. Recently FERC responded: no, thank you. Is it yet another chapter of the end of Trump’s End of war on coal?
REO: EFFECTIVE NOT ATTRACTIVE
Polishcoaldaily‘s Founder and former Editor introducing his new column in reo.pl called Energy Simmetrist, which will be almost entirely focused on energy efficiency issues and how it can help adress the eco-challenges in the following years.
NETTG: QUANTITY, QUALITY OR PERFORMANCE?
As the more and more clients of PGG complain about undelivered coal (recently Arcelor Mittal), the discussion on the performance of Silesian mines goes on. With weak performance, there is no justification for sustaining production in some mines. But what about the quality of coal in Silesian deposits?
TGP: NEW BOILERS ARE NOT ENOUGH
Polishcoaldaily‘s Founder and former Editor’s comment for report by Karolina Baca-Pogorzelska and Zofia Jozwiak in Tygodnik Gazeta Prawna on the subject of thermo-modernization, which in his opinion should be the top priority when facing the issue of air pollution.
BA: CLIMATE POLICY A LA POLOGNE
On the 25th January, another meeting of the Parliamentary Mining and Energy Team took place in the Sejm. This time devoted to “Perspectives of the Polish mining and energy sector in the light of the 24th UN Climate Summit in Katowice on 3-14 December 2018.”
PZGIE: THERMO-MODERNIZATION VS. SMOG
Polishcoaldaily’s Founder and former Editor took part in the meeting of Parliamentary Commission for Mining and Energy, where he had the chance to point out many lies made by Polish Smog Alarm, which blames coal for air pollution using unfair accusations.
NETTG: POLISH NATURAL RESOURCES POLICY
Polishcoaldaily‘s Founder and former Editor’s coverage from the recent meeting of Parliamentary Commission for Mining and Energy, where Secretary of State Chief National Geologist Mariusz Orion Jędrysek Prof., PhD was presenting the new government’s natural resource policy.
WNET: MORNING PROGRAMME ON SMOG
Polishcoaldaily‘s Founder and former Editor took part in the Radio Wnet Morning Porgramme today, whre he was hosted by Lukasz Antoni Jankowski and had the opportunity to talk about governmental fight against the air pollution in Poland and what does the ministers do wrong about it.
NETTG: ANTI-SMOG DOESN’T HAVE TO BE ANTI-COAL
Coverage from the last meeting of Parliamentary Commission for Mining and Energy, which this time was dedicated to governmental battle against the air pollution using thermo-modernization of public and private buildings and not necessarily fighting against coal.
DGP: BIG SAVINGS STAY ON PAPER
Polishcoaldaily’s Founder and former Editor commenting in the latest article by Karolina-Baca Pogorzelska in Dziennik Gazeta Prawna (Daily Legal Newspaper) the situation over energy audits, as the Energy Regulatory Office announced that only 3,5k companies carried out their duty.
NETTG: ASIANS WANTS TO PROFIT FROM COAL
While ING, JP Morgan and EIB decline financing coal projects, Asian investemnt funds and banks still want to earn some money. Just between 2004 and 2015 China invested 300 bn USD in domestic mines and coal-fired power plants, and 70 bn abroad, and plans to invest 90 bn more in the following years.
REO: THE ABSOLUTE NO NO’S
A short list of totally forbidden arguments and figures of speech used by some commentators while discussing the energy issues. Remember the ratio legis, avoid loopholes in your reasoning and never ever try to blackmail your opponents.
DGP: HEAT OVER ENERGY AUDITS
Polishcoaldaily‘s Founder and former Editor commenting in the latest article by Karolina-Baca Pogorzelska in Dziennik Gazeta Prawna (Daily Legal Newspaper) the situation over energy audits, which were runned poorely, both due to the imperfect law and irresponsible companies.
PZGIE: POLISH ENERGY POLICY BEFORE COP24
Polishcoaldaily‘s Founder and former Editor as always took part in the another meeting of Parliamentary Commission for Mining and Energy, where he took the opportunity to rectify some false theses of global coal abandoning, made by many experts during the debate.
BA: LAUDATO SI AND RIGHT-WING ECOLOGY
Polishcoaldaily‘s Founder and former Edtor quoted by Biznes Alert, in Teresa Wojcik’s coverage of the last meeting of Parliamentary Commision for Mining and Energy, where he stated that despite so called “megatrends”, Chinese and Singaporean banks are investing in coal projects.
NETTG: POLISH ENERGY BEFORE AND AFTER COP24
Polishcoaldaily Founder’s coverage on the last meeting of Parliamentary Commission for Mining and Energy, where Polish politicians, professionals, academics, experts and lobbyists discussed what should be presented in Katowice during climate summit on December.
TG: ANTI-SMOG HOTCHPOTCH 2018 AD
New deputy minister focused entirely on polluted air, mixing terminology on the causes of smog in the largest Polish cities made by so called “smog experts” and many more in the latest article by Polishcoaldaily’s Founder and former Editor.
NETTG: NEGLIGIBLE DECISSION FROM UK
United Kingdom plans to shut down all of its coal-fired power plants by 2025 with the 450g CO2/t limit laws (similar to EU “Winter Package”), but this decission is completely irrelevant on the ideological level of the discussion, since it is caused mainly because of market reasons, not the politics.
REO: SYMBIOSIS OR HOSTILITY?
Second article by Polishcoaldaily’s Founder and former Editor for reo.pl (run by Renewable Energy Market Foundation), this time on the relationship between renewable energy (with its grid priority dispatch) and fossil fuels (with its capacity market) in Polish energy mix.
NETTG: THE END OF GERMAN ENERGIEWENDE
As Germany is trying hard to pose as the global leader in shutting down fossil fuels fired power plants and developing renewable energy, the facts are against them: increased burning of hard coal and lignite, high level of CO2 & low emission and grubbing an ancient forest to expand a coal mine.
NM: WHAT WILL BE MORE EXPENSIVE IN 2018?
Naszemiasto.pl is quoting Polishcoaldaily’s Founder and former Editor on the subject of increasing prices of coal used for domestic heating and increasing prices of central heating, again connected with more expensive steam coal last year.
PCH: MINERS SAVING THEIR MINE
Polishcoaldaily’s Founder nad former Editor commenting for Polonia Christiana on PG Silesia mine history and the fate of Makoszowy mine if its employees would succeed with establishing the employee-owned company owning a mining facility.
TG: H2 2017 SUMMARY IN POLISH COAL MINING
Second part of summary of the most important events in 2017: shortage of coal, shortage of cargo trains, many promises (both by Polish Ministry of Energy and anti-coal alliances) and power market, which will prolong life of many Polish coal-fired power plants.
BA: SALARIES REFORM? START IT NOW!
Recent report of NIK (Polish Supreme Audit Office) shows unreal assumptions of 2007-2015 Polish Coal Company strategy in term of salaries. On December minister Tobiszowski suggested more flexibility in wage strategy, since the coal-boom is not going to last for long.
NETTG: MINE IS NOT A GROCERY STORE
As some still demands closure of certain mines in Poland, despite the global coal-boom and prices rocking sky high, Polishcoaldaily’s former Editor reminds us that they should be more restrained, giving the example of Sosnica mine.
