Nuclear power plants in Europe should not be shut down
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The energy crisis is a time of belt-tightening and means that the first way to secure energy supplies and raw materials is to cut back on their consumption. That's why the European Commission is right to recommend austerity in the gas sector - even in countries that have done well in abandoning Russian gas. The less gas we use now, the more we will have in the future.
"While this winter it may turn out that following EU regulations we will share gas with Germany - next winter Poland may need help from Germany, for example. This possibility should be taken into account - because a complete stoppage of gas supplies from Russia could mean that an important source of diversification of supplies to Poland, namely the German exchange, will also dry up," Wojciech Jakóbik, editor-in-chief of BiznesAlert, said.
"That's why we should all save, reduce our gas consumption - and ultimately switch to sources that don't need fossil fuels. Unfortunately, we have years of neglect here in Poland, which means we have too few power plants. We'll be pulling in the 20s on coal because we haven't built anything. Then, increasingly, coal will be replaced by renewable energy sources secured by nuclear power - but only in the 2030s, because it's impossible to build an atom faster," Jakóbik added.
