Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe (Polish Nuclear Power Plant) is established
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Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe (Polish Nuclear Power Plant) is the name that will be given to the entity in charge of construction and operation of Poland’s nuclear power sector, government plenipotentiary for strategic energy infrastructure Piotr Naimski said.
Naimski explained in an interview with PAP that this is a change of name of the existing PGE EJ1 company, which has recently been purchased from its shareholders by the State Treasury. He added that the name change is “in the process of registration”.
Naimski said during the Nafta-Gaz-Chemia 2021 conference that the implementation of the Polish Nuclear Power Programme, i.e. the construction of six nuclear power units with a total capacity of 6-9 GW, according to preliminary estimates will result in 20-25 percent of electricity produced in Poland in the first half of the 2040s coming from the atom.
The Plenipotentiary pointed out that the share of the atom, as a zero-emission source, in the Green Deal is “evident”. Without the atom, the balancing of the Polish energy system will come from Germany, and Poland cannot afford it and that Poland cannot be systemically dependent on imported energy, he added.
