New challenges of the Polish cities

by Madej Lorek

In the present EU Policy the priority of limitation of the CO₂ emission is a decisive and so far the only stimulus in the fight against the climate warming.

The EU introduced the policy of charges and limits for the CO₂ emission. As a result, the year-long costs of the energy sector in Poland increased in 2007 0.5 mln EUR/year, with perspective of the growth in the next 20 years up to 2,8 mln EUR/year, or even more, but this depends on the market price for the limits of the CO₂ emission. Meanwhile, it seems that the production of the excessive heat produced in the energetic process, and unused by people, has the equally essential impact on the climate change. It shall be stressed, that it is the coal power stations, producing the cheapest energy, that most effectively utilize the limitation of the heat emission by using it in combination.

The pressure in the fight against the climate warming is focused exclusively on limitation of the CO₂ emission. However, it is advised that the EU countries shall pay more attention on the priority of reducing the heat emission, produced by the nuclear power stations. Not meaningless is also the growth of consumption, which contributes to the increase of the power-consuming production.

The growth of demand on electric energy, in the expert valuation, is 4% yearly in our country, and this, in a short 20 year perspective, will give us the growth of the country energy demand at about 80%. Poland stands before the basic challenge of diversification of the energy delivery, liquidation of the coal power industry, and creation of the wind and nuclear power industry. It is indispensable to explain the society the need of new energy centres (new power stations, solid waste incineration plants), to determine reasonably energetic priorities, like limitation of the heat wastes and not CO₂ emission. Defending the local society interests, the local authorities shall negotiate conditions of energy investments, shall have a possibility of receiving additional economic and environmental advantages on the areas of investments, promote wind power industry.