Poland in 2030 will have the most emissive energy in the EU

 

According to the report of the ember climate think-tank, Poland will have the most emissive energy sector in the European Union in 2030.

 

In 2030 Res will account for 60%. energy generated in the EU. The biggest impact on these statistics is expected to be wind and solar, which will generate a total of 40%. electricity. However, as Ember climate experts note, fossil fuels will still account for 25 percent. produced energy.
Seven countries need to work better towards energy transition
Ember climate experts point out that specific actions need to be taken in seven countries: Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Romania, Poland, Germany and Italy.

The first five countries, including Poland, according to analysts, are too limited in their energy transformation. Therefore, if they want to achieve the best possible result by 2030, they need to accelerate this process. In total, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Romania and Poland are expected to account for 40% by 2030. emissions from the EU energy sector. Of which only Poland will generate 22 percent. emissions. This will be the second highest score. Only Germany will have a higher share of emissions (30%).).

Nevertheless, the Polish energy sector will be the most emissive in the whole EU. The production of 1 kWh will generate 566 g of CO2, while the EU average will be 153 g.this result is clearly higher even than the second highest recorded by the Czech energy industry. There, the production of 1kwh will be responsible for the emission of 425 g of CO2. For comparison, in the best in this respect, Denmark and Sweden, it will be only 14 grams, which is more than 40 times less than in Poland.
Germany and Italy, on the other hand, are to have the fourth and seventh most emissive energy sectors respectively. However, Ember analysts point out that these two countries, like the previous five countries, will also be responsible for 40 percent. CO2 emissions from the energy sector in 2030. In this case, the main problem will be the size of the economies, so it is recommended that both countries speed up the energy transition.

Poland, Czech Republic and Germany leaders in the production of energy from coal
The report also shows that in 2030 Poland, Germany and the Czech Republic will account for 90%. energy produced in the EU from coal. Of which the absolute leaders will be Germany and Poland, which are expected to produce 75 percent in a decade. EU energy from this raw material. However, it should be noted that in absolute terms these figures will be much lower than at present.
In the case of Poland, a particular increase is to be recorded in the production of energy from biogas. The growth of energy production from biogas in Poland is expected to be the highest in the whole EU. In 2018-2030, electricity production in biogas plants is expected to increase by 9 TWh in our country. Interestingly, in Germany, the production of energy from this type of source is to be reduced the most in the EU-by almost the same as in Poland, about 9 TWh.

Significant decrease in energy from the atom
Interestingly, despite the fight for a better climate and the creation of low-carbon energy, by 2030, nuclear energy production is expected to fall by 19%., which translates into a decrease of 143 TWh. Interestingly, the leader in the reduction of such energy sources is to be Germany, which, recall, in 2030 will have the fourth most emissive energy sector in the EU, and the scale of their economy makes even small changes have a big impact on global CO2 production. Thus, in our western neighbors, as a result of the closure of nuclear power plants, the production of energy from the atom is to fall by 76 TWh.
On the other side of the barricade are the Finns, Hungarians, Slovaks and Romanians, who want to increase the production of nuclear energy. Ember analysts point out that reactors are also planned in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Poland, but they will not be built until 2030, so they were not included in the statistics. At the same time, a few days ago, Estonia expressed its desire to build a nuclear power plant.

Wind and solar as the main source of energy
Ember analysts attach importance to res, in particular wind and solar energy. It is to the development of these two technologies that special attention has been devoted. On the other hand, the development of nuclear energy, which is also low-carbon energy, but in many countries it is censored, was taken after the stepmother. Such countries are m.in. Germany, where all reactors are to be shut down by 2022.