21:33 20 September 2022
Poland in danger of limiting its power supply
Poland lacks the unbundling of energy production capacity and the integrated management of all possible capacities. Hence, the Polish energy industry urgently needs to be unbundled – so that we do not enter the stage of a dramatic crisis that some generations remember from the 1980s – when there were the so-called 20 degrees of power supply. Back then, power was available for several hours during the day – just as it is today in Cuba.
"Since 2018, the Adam Smith Center has repeatedly called for the liberalization of energy production. In Poland, it must be remembered, that energy is under very far-reaching government control and more than ninety-some percent of energy is produced by companies dependent on the Polish government. Lack of overproduction of electricity, and energy must lead to price increases and this has already happened before the period of the announced pandemic. If energy production capacity is not freed up – we will have all the time an increasingly dramatic situation of rising bills not only for citizens," Andrzej Sadowski, president of the Adam Smith Center, said.
