There is no alternative to deploying nuclear power for Poland’s future energy mix and to help secure baseload generation against intermittent renewables, Milosz Motyka undersecretary of state in ministry of climate and environment, told a panel discussion on Monday 18 March.
“If not nuclear, then what? Not coal, there is no alternative,” Motyka told the Baltic Nuclear Energy Forum in the city of Gdansk, about 100 km southeast of Poland’s proposed first nuclear station at Lubiatowo-Kopalino on the Baltic coast.
The cost of basing the Polish economy on coal-fired generation will be increasingly higher in the coming years and “it’s not worth it” for the economy and the environment, he said.