Stocks of Polish state-controlled energy companies fell sharply on the
The plan assumed spinning off coal assets to the
Relieved from the burden of coal assets, the companies – PGE, Tauron, and Enea – would be better positioned to attract green financing, it was hoped.
But Industry Minister
“The NABE project will not be implemented. [We will] link coal-fired power plants with specific mines instead,” Czarnecka told the newspaper Rzeczpospolita.
Despite the minister’s adding that the plan is still in a very early stage of development and legal analysis, stocks of PGE, Tauron, and Enea all fell sharply on the Warsaw bourse.
The stock price of Poland’s biggest energy company PGE fell 8.56% as trading closed. Enea’s stock price declined 6.75%. Tauron proved the least exposed, as its stock price slid just 1.36%.
The stock exchange’s energy index WIG-Energia – which is 80%-dominated by the three state-controlled companies in question – fell 4.89%.
Czarnecka also said that “in July, we should present a plan to assign specific mines to specific power plants. In September, we will present legal solutions for implementing this idea.”
Poland’s energy generation sector remains heavily dominated by coal and lignite, which make up over 60% of the country’s energy mix.
Major investments in nuclear power and offshore wind are expected to reduce coal's share in the energy mix to below 20% in 2040 and thus bring down climate-harming emissions.
Still,
Those costs could exceed PLN500bn (€115.39bn) in "the coming years," said Climate and Environment Minister
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