Corrected: (OFFICIAL)-Poland needs to adjust its energy strategy due to volatile gas prices, says ministry

Energa S A

04/04/2022 19:50

(Corrects headline and first paragraph after state assets
ministry's spokesman said Poland planned to increase importance
of coal fired power plants until 2049, but does not plan to run
them later)
    WARSAW, April 4 (Reuters) - Poland wants to increase
importance of coal fired power plants until 2049 as it needs to
adjust its energy strategy amid volatile gas prices and war in
Ukraine, the spokesman of state assets minister was quoted as
saying by state-owned news agency PAP. 
    "Price volatility means that gas as transition fuel in power
generation is not acceptable. (...) Today we want to make
coal-fired power plants function much longer, and turn them into
a stabilizer of the whole system," Deputy Prime Minister Jacek
Sasin was quoted as saying by PAP.  
    

 (Reporting by Anna Koper and Marek Strzelecki,Editing by
William Maclean)
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