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THE ENERGY FORUM
Setting Up Policy Guidelines
Energy security is a European policy priority. A new energy policy is focused on creating a unified energy market in the European Union and helping reduce dependence on raw material imports. Other important related issues include renewable energy sources and cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
Decisions concerning the EU's new energy policy, which would apply until 2020, will be made at an EU summit early in March. The Energy Forum organized by the Institute of Eastern Studies in Warsaw discussed the policy guidelines in mid-February. Those who attended the forum included Adris Piebalgs, the commissioner for energy policy, Piotr Woźniak, the Polish economy minister, and Jerzy Buzek, an MEP and former Polish prime minister. The talks focused on the energy package announced Jan. 10. This document touches upon the most important issues of the EU's energy policy, oriented towards building an internal energy market.
Piebalgs said that in order to guarantee reliable, safe and competitive energy supplies we need common solutions at the European level. If the right decisions are made today, then Europe could start a new industrial revolution, developing an economy based on low-emission technologies. One of the energy package assumptions is the 3x20 initiative; that the EU will achieve a 20-percent share of renewable energy in total energy consumption, reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent, and make 20-percent energy savings. The new EU energy policy also advocates building a number of international connections between member states, including a power connection from Poland to Lithuania. However, the document does not mention extending the Odessa-Brody pipeline to Poland.
According to Piebalgs, the new energy package is of key importance for the EU. Woźniak said that "from the Polish perspective, special attention must be paid to proposals securing gas supplies and solidarity concerning energy issues. Some of the most important tasks are to establish crisis management procedures, increase gas reserves, diversify supply sources, expand the energy transmission infrastructure, and pursue a coherent external energy policy."
Cutting carbon dioxide emissions will be a great challenge for Poland. At present, about 96 percent of electricity in the country comes from coal-burning power plants. According to Buzek, this gives the Polish energy sector security, as it is using coal from domestic deposits. However, many Polish power plants are outdated and need to be modernized. Unless it reduces the toxic emissions, the Polish energy sector will face problems in 10 years. Therefore, Poland needs to build state-of-the-art coal-burning power plants.
Woźniak said that Poland had not ruled out building a nuclear power plant. At the same time though, it is arguable that the cost of building a nuclear power plant is similar to that of building a modern coal-burning plant with an equivalent capacity that would not emit carbon dioxide. Notably, recent polls reveal that as many as 61 percent of Poles are in favor of building a nuclear power plant.