The Polish Ministry of State Assets has announced the abandonment of plans to create the National Energy Security Agency (NABE), which was expected to own and operate existing coal-fired power plants in Poland. Instead, the country now intends to prepare a package of measure to maintain those plants in the system. Indeed, the projected cumulated financial gap for the 14 coal-fired power plants that would have been part of NABE between 2025 and 2040 was expected to reach PLN54bn (€12.6bn), which translates to a PLN74/MWh loss of electricity. There was also doubts about the European Commission's acceptance of state support for NABE if coal assets were concentrated in a single entity.
The government will work to extend and reform the capacity market mechanism with the objective to ensure security, while also providing the opportunity for the most cost-effective decarbonisation. The new mechanism will consist of three elements: the continuation of the capacity market, the flexibility market, and the implementation of the decarbonisation mechanism. It aims to build new low-emission units that will ensure system security and generation adequacy, providing at the same an opportunity to keep coal fired units in operation for as long as needed.
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