Plans for new Polish gas power spending would cost taxpayers

Poland is planning a new generation of gas power plants that will undermine EU climate targets and only be viable because of subsidies that could cost taxpayers nearly $4.5 billion, warns a new report from the financial think tank Carbon Tracker launched today. It calls on Poland to replace polluting coal plants with renewables, not gas, revealing that it is already cheaper to produce energy by building new solar farms and onshore wind than new combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) units.