According to a survey by the Centre for Public Opinion Research (CBOS) 40 % of all those who heat their homes with coal do not have any stock of this raw material for the upcoming heating season, and 79 % foresee problems with supply. Among others, 77 % of rural residents use coal cookers.

CBOS published last week the results of its August survey ‘Poles towards the energy crisis’, conducted as part of its ‘Current Problems and Events’ series, in which a different issue is examined every month.

According to the survey 46% of Poles heat their flats or houses primarily with their own coal-fired cookers or boilers, 28 % use a municipal or local (e.g. housing estate) district heating network, and 22% use their own gas, oil or electric heating. People declaring another type of heating (4 %) use wood, pellets and heat pumps.

Coal cookers or boilers are used by 77% of rural residents. 58% of residents in large cities heat their flats or houses using the municipal or local heating network. In the case of respondents from the largest cities, 65% of respondents use this solution.

Of those respondents who heat their houses or flats with coal, 35% have a “small stock of this resource for the upcoming heating season”, while 40 % declared that they have no stock at all. Only one in eleven declared that they have enough coal for the entire heating season (9%), and one in seven (15%) that they have ample stocks, but not enough for the entire season.”

As many as 79 % of those heating with coal assessed that their households would have problems with the supply of this raw material in the coming heating season.

Adrian Andrzejewski