Poland needs to adjust its energy strategy due to volatile gas prices, says ministry (updated)

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04/04/2022 19:54

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    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.  
    Ministry's spokesman said later that Poland does not plan to
extend the operation of plants beyond 2049, but to increase
their use over the assumptions made before Russia invaded
Ukraine, as it does not plan to replace them with gas plants to
such extent as it was initially planned. 
    

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