From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
While Miliband puts our energy security at risk, Poland are building new gas plants:
State-owned PGE, the largest power producer in Poland, said the 1,366-MW PGE Gryfino Dolan Odra power station has entered commercial operation. The facility is now the country’s largest gas-fired power plant.
Officials on Nov. 8 said the station will supply about 5% of Poland’s electricity. PGE officials said the plant is “one of the most modern in Europe.” The investment “will strengthen Poland’s energy security and ensure a stable energy supply for more than 3 million households,” Dariusz Marzec, PGE’s CEO, said during Friday’s launch ceremony.
Miłosz Motyka, the country’s deputy climate minister, said the new facility will “not only have a direct impact on the stability of the electricity system, i.e. on security, but is also another step in the transformation of our economy.”
“Gas investment is a very important part of the energy transition and the move towards climate neutrality,” said Robert Kropiwnicki, deputy minister of state assets. “We are constantly expanding the RES [renewable energy] system.” Kropiwnicki noted, though, that renewables “need parallel stable energy sources working as a base, and at the moment there is no more flexible capacity than gas capacity.” Renewable energy accounted for about 26% of Poland’s power generation in 2023.
Poland in the past week needed to import energy from neighboring countries, including Germany, Sweden, and Ukraine as a lack of wind led to a decline in energy production from wind turbines, according to Business Insider Polska.
https://live-powermag.pantheonsite.io/poland-brings-countrys-largest-gas-fired-power-plant-online
The only thing on Miliband’s mind is saving the CoP- as if it can be.
The summit, taking place in Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku, over the next fortnight, has been hit by a flurry of late cancellations.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/09/after-trump-re-election-uk-will-lead-efforts-to-save-cop29-says-miliband
Only the begging nations and mad Ed will turn up, and Azerbaijan has stuff under the ground that it wants to sell…
I read today that Starmer is going…
I understand he’s organising the opposition to the 47th president… meeting Macron today.
Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron’s crisis summit on how to deal with Trump https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14067601/Keir-Starmer-Macron-Ukraine-Trump-tariffs-Armistice-Day-France.html
Starmer to attend Cop29 as other world leaders snub talks – The Telegraph
I’m loving this!
All these leftwingers thinking they can thwart Trump! We have several Democrat governors making noises of resistance to Trump, and now Starmer and Macron make it international.
What these little people don’t understand yet is: Resistance is Futile ! 🙂
They don’t like democracy much
NB Starmer only managed ~22% of the vote….
So little knowledge displayed here.
Macron is right wing. And the Telegraph is not a reliable source.
In fact, Macron and Starmer were reported to be discussing how they will try to defend the West, if Trump surrenders to Putin as he says he will.
That has nothing to do with COP 29 or climate change (Macron is not going to Baku).
“”Macron is right wing.””
He is a globalist (Rothschild banker) and I would not describe him as right wing, more like less woke.
Macron & Starmer were reported to be discussing how they will try to defend the West ….
In reality they were thankful that they won’t have to admit how stupid they are (and that they don’t have to ‘surrender’). They are getting together to decide how to spin it, cover their asses, and make themselves look less like surrender monkeys.
Deep into your TDS again, I see.
What you really mean is that Larry and Moe will be trying to figure out how to pay their share of NATO funding to Ukraine, when Trump rightfully expects them to.
Bwhahahahahahahahahahaha. Milk came out my nose.
Stopping the transfer of American Wealth to Ukraine is not a surrender. Europe is more than capable of funding their buddies.
Please provide a link to Trump actually saying that he would surrender to Putin. All I’ve heard him say is that he will end the conflict, which I take to mean that many options are on the table, and he wants to get everyone to that table and reach an agreement. Recall that he previously told Putin that the U.S. would bomb Moscow if Russia invaded Ukraine, and guess what? There was no escalation by Russia during the Trump administration, nor did Russia gain new territory
I think we all wish he were. Trouble is a replacement would probably be worse…Rayner?
COP it sweet-
Owners on former council estate face £66k bill for net zero heating
Grenfell proved they have social housing by the gonads…
The flats have been sold off under Right to Buy. Prime Pimlico location, handy for Parliament and those who provide services to MPs.
I am sure I heard ‘an expert’ recently saying that nobody really knows where the **** UK energy is being supplied from less that evidence be used against the hypocrites Starmer Miliband and company (the Tories are not much better either).
We are currently in a typical UK autumn cold spell with very little useful solar during shortening days much less than half a season from the shortest one. Today’s real feel locally to me is 42F.
“Poland in the past week needed to import energy from neighboring countries,
including Germany, . . .”
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Paint me confused, I thought Germany was importing power from neighboring countries.
The two are not mutually exclusive. Germany’s grid connects to places with coal gas and nuclear power, which Poland cannot access directly.
In the UK it is common to be importing from one country and exporting to another.
I think you are right, Leo, and it is another example of “follow the money”.
This aspect of foreign trade shouldn’t come as a surprise to anybody involved in commerce. But if you’re a Keynesian economist like Paul Krugman, you can win the 2008 Nobel Prize in economics for…
‘His work shed light on key economic issues such as why countries import and export the same goods…’
Citroen, Fiat, Volkswagen, Saab, Skoda etc etc will be intrigued by the genius of the man’s insights into trade….
I recall it being a first year economics assignment to write up as many different reasons as possible with reference to real examples and the economics behind them. Can I have my Nobel?
It was permissable to allude to cultural consumer preferences in those days, as well as basic facts of geography and time, never mind such things as detailed differences in design and price etc. not captured by trade classifications..
It is certainly a net importer in the Dunkelflaute.
The pattern of cross border flows can seem confusing at times.
In the meantime Germany blowed the the newest hard coal plant Moorurg. It started production in 2015.
A new H2 hub will be placed there :facepalm:
Poland supported the destruction of Nordstream II and its reward, along with its Russophobic warmongering sabre rattling, is why it was rewarded by the USA with a new pipeline from Norway that literally opened as soon as Nordstream was bombed.
That’s all this story is about. Destroy gas capacity coming into Germany and create gas capacity for Poland. Poland wasn’t getting transit fees any more so they conspired to carry out international terrorism.
The UK should be doing the same
Or going back to coal.
“The UK must ramp up its efforts on renewable energy to foster national security in an increasingly uncertain world, the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, has warned”
Poland on the other hand are doing the right thing to foster their national security by not wasting money on net zero and increasing spending on their armed forces to 6% of GDP.
It’s quite fascinating to see how Donald Tusk has completely u-turned – even on borders.
“””The European Council, under the leadership of its president [Donald Tusk], has continued to play a leading role throughout. It decided that the European Commission would conduct negotiations with the UK on the EU’s behalf, and repudiated attempts by Theresa May to negotiate directly at the ill-fated Salzburg summit in September 2018; and it was also responsible for defining the Commission’s negotiating mandate.””
https://ukandeu.ac.uk/donald-tusk-the-european-council-and-brexit/
It’s a different story now.
Does anybody, anywhere, ever, stand up and ask him to elaborate on how “renewable energy efforts” are able to foster national security (in an uncertain world … when has there been a certain world?)
Yep.
Especially when all the mineral processing, production, and manufacturing of most of the guts of renewables [wind turbines, solar & batteries] makes you dependent on CHINA.
I’m sure Xi has the UK & EU’s best interests at heart. Right? [do I need a sarc/ tag?]
Not only dependent on the weather, but also the CCP. Double lunacy!
This plant is replacing a 50 year old coal station at the same site (the last b its are still operating). It’s a few miles south of the new LNG terminal at Swinoujscie, and lies on the German border.
Look at current Polish power sources: still heavily coal dependent.
Coal provided over 60% of Poland’s electricity in 2023. The country has hard coal reserves of over 4.3bn tonnes.
Apparently they are sitting on a lot of shale gas but the EU has banned fracking. That could lead to an interesting stand off in the future.
What it will lead to is backtracking of EU leadership (or dead EU leadership) when the masses begin dying from the cold.
More good news. Well done Poland.
Poland has plenty of tight gas if they want to develop it and sell it to the rest of Europe.
Brilliant.
This will be far cleaner than the old coal fired plants.
Now we have proof that climate science is so faulted why are we persisting with the nonsense that it is supposedly important?