More electric heat will reduce costs, fight smog – Energy Ministry

Deputy Minister of Energy Andrzej Piotrowski said that the government wants to encourage Polish residents to heat their homes with electricity-powered sources that have an extensive accumulation of heat, according to a Puls Biznesu report on Friday. It will encourage the promotion of subsidies to heating sources that use electricity lines, the report said. Additionally, the Ministry will, as part of its program, aim to convince people not to incinerate personal waste in their furnaces, a process that, it says, increases smog. The construction of the heating system based on current reconstruction will require some power lines. According to the report, the government did not say how much the program will cost.