Poland’s new government has reshuffled the energy and climate portfolios — a hint that the country's traditional defense of coal is shifting.
Morawiecki also shut down the energy ministry, headed by coal defender Krzysztof Tchórzewski. Instead, it's being amalgamated into a new ministry in charge of state-controlled assets — the government owns most of the country's coal industry and power utilities.
That makes Kurtyka the point man in what are likely to be fraught talks with the EU about emissions reductions and the scale of financial compensation through thedemanded by Poland and other coal-dependent countries on making a green energy shift. Imported coal is twice as cheap as domestic production and unsold coal has been piling up in mines and power plants. Power production dropped by 3 percent for hard coal in the first eight months of the year, and by 13 percent for lignite,The government is talking a lot more about renewable energy, and both Morawiecki and Kurtyka were headliners at an event promoting electric cars this week.
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