Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Minister of Climate Paulina Hennig-Kloska announced that despite the president’s veto, the government will push forward with building wind turbines in Poland. Hennig-Kloska added that through changes in regulations and the operating rules of the Regional Directorates for Environmental Protection (RDOŚ), investments in green energy would be accelerated.
Despite the president’s veto, we will support the development of renewable energy sources in Poland. We are building the Government Strategy for the Development of RES (OZE) based on already agreed investments in onshore wind farms. This will allow us to double wind power capacity within five years – said Minister of Climate and Environment Paulina Hennig-Kloska on Twitter on Wednesday. She added that the government wants to change regulations and the operating rules of the RDOŚ in order to “accelerate investments in RES and facilitate repowering, that is, the modernization of existing wind turbines” (original wording by the minister).
Possible regulatory changes aimed at speeding up investments in RES were also mentioned by Prime Minister Donald Tusk during the Cabinet Council on Wednesday.
I have information, Mr. President, that wind turbines will be built and we have found ways to intensify our actions through the power of regulation. Therefore, the veto will be of little effect. Perhaps the president will be dissatisfied with this… but I will be satisfied – Tusk said, addressing President Karol Nawrocki.
On August 21, President Nawrocki announced that he had vetoed the amendment to the so-called Wind Farm Act, which liberalized the rules for investing in this type of onshore energy and also provided for a freeze on electricity prices for households until the end of 2025. At the same time, the president informed that he had signed a legislative initiative bill concerning the freezing of electricity prices, “literally taken” from the vetoed act.