A long-awaited update to Poland’s National and Climate Plan (NECP)
In mid-October, Poland’s Ministry of Climate and Environment published a draft NECP for public consultations until mid-November. The document will be completed, approved by the government and then submitted to the European Commission as part of the consultative governance process of the EU’s energy union. The former NECP was submitted in 2019 and is totally outdated, overtaken by events like the Covid-19 pandemic, war in Ukraine, further declines in prices of clean energy technology and the materialisation of the EU’s high carbon prices scenario.
The NECP reading is very demanding, totalling over 600 pages altogether. Navigation through the document and the attachments requires a lot of time and attention in order to get a full picture of the comprehensive strategy. Poland’s commitments can be extracted from the modelling results, prepared based on a suite of engineering and economic modelling tools (bottom-up energy system and top-down macroeconomic models).
As required by Brussels, the modelling exercise was conducted for two scenarios: WEM, with existing measures (close to a baseline path), and a more ambitious WAM scenario with additional measures. The less ambitious WEM scenario actually reflects a huge scale of energy transformation. This is because the scenario includes key elements of the EU’s climate policy, including high carbon prices in the EU ETS, the introduction of the ETS2 from 2027-28 (covering transport, buildings, and small industries), EU-wide renewable energy and energy efficiency targets. In this note, the plans refer to the more ambitious WAM scenario unless otherwise stated.
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