Over PLN 2 bln applications in 'Clean Air' program

90,000 applications were submitted in the ‘Clean Air’ program for a total amount of over PLN 2 billion, the Minister of the Environment Henryk Kowalczyk informed. So far, the program has adopted resolutions to grant financing for a total amount of over PLN 1 billion in grants and loans.

The main assumption of the program is to reduce emissions of harmful substances to the atmosphere that arise as a result of heating single-family houses of poor quality fuel in outdated furnaces. The budget of the entire program is PLN 103 billion, and implementation is planned until 2029.

According to Kowalczyk, the problem of smog in Poland should disappear in about 10 years, because thanks to investments in modern furnaces and thermo-modernization at least 80 percent of single-family houses will emit cleaner exhaust fumes from heating. 

(ISBnews)