The share of renewable sources in energy consumption in Poland is approximately 16%. By 2030, it should increase to 23%, and a decade later to at least 28.5%. In the face of climate and geopolitical threats, Poland’s goals are expected to be more ambitious.
During the previous decade, in the years 2010–2020, the share in the consumption of energy from renewable sources in Poland increased from 9.5 to 16.1%.
The share of energy from renewable sources that Poland achieved in 2020, the EU (as it currently stands) has already exceeded almost a decade ago, in 2012. By 2020, the average share of renewable sources in energy consumption in EU countries increased to 22.1% only at such a price will. The highest (60.1%) was in Sweden.
The European Union took the growing concerns about the consequences of climate change particularly seriously. The ultimate goal to be achieved by 2050 is Europe’s full energy neutrality.
The implementation of European energy goals, in the form of an increase in the share of renewable sources in energy consumption, may further accelerate Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine. The outbreak of the war in February 2022 and the economic sanctions imposed on Russian exports made it clear how much European economies are dependent on supplies of Russian energy resources.
The content of detailed provisions that can be found in the National Plan for Reconstruction and Increasing Resilience (KPO) approved at the beginning of June 2022 by the European Commission indicates that the largest investments with financial support under the KPO will concern the construction of wind farms in the Baltic Sea. The planned reconstruction (by 2025 and 2026) of the seaports in Ustka and Łeba will be an initial stage.
By 2030, the installed capacity of wind farms will reach 5.9 GW, and by 2040 – from 8 to 11 GW. The construction of wind farms in the Baltic Sea is planned by the state-owned concern PGE together with the Danish company Oersted, PKN Orlen together with the Canadian company Northland Power and Polenergia cooperating with the Norwegian company Equinor and the German energy concern RWE. order