Discussions concerning an allocation of emission limits of CO₂ still lasts in Poland. We should have accepted the plan of allocation to 2007 a long time ago and now we should work for the next one for years

2008-2012. Meanwhile, when the new solution seemed to be developed, which threatened arguments of every producers, suddenly the next version of allocation appeared at the end of September. As the result of it probably we should have to purchase another permissions to do obligations, what results from the long-term contracts with the Polish Power Grid (PSE SA), so our energy may be more expensive.

Criterions of limits’ allocation were established in guidelines of European Committee and on the basis of them in September last year after consultations, in which the representatives of power plants took place, the National Distribution of Entitlements was done. Later, it was passed to Brussels. The document was prepared on the basis of data concerning installed capacity of power station, the production in the basic period and indexes of power use.

For the moment, the long-term contracts are still in force for producers with the Polish Power Grid. The use of power from ecological units working on the hard coal and meeting all emission norms ( as in Jaworzno III and Łaziska power plants) is only fifty percent, but from the units working on the brown coal only seventy percent. The situation is not absolutely depended on us.

I cannot agree for manual steering of units in the future and for working units using brown coal (which get larger limits) and not meeting ecological standards, because these units cannot work eighty percent of time but units, which work on the hard coal and are modernized and have a well efficiency, work below fifty percent.

It is worth remembering that production of 1 MWh from the units working on the lignite coal is connected with the emission on the level
of 1100 kilo CO₂, but from the units working on the hard coal – 900 kilo. Despite the greater ecological effect on the hard coal the price of energy for both kinds of fuel is the same. This argument should be taken into consideration according to the aims of directive which reduces
the emission of greenhouse gas.