Polish Power Rising

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Poland’s electricity is becoming more expensive than Germany’s as the country fails to build enough plants to meet demand, threatening to make eastern Europe’s biggest economy dependent on power imports.

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Electricity demand in Poland jumped 4.2 percent in the first 10 months of this year, compared with the same period in 2009, according to PSE Operator SA, the Konstancin-Jeziorna- based grid operator. Demand will keep increasing in 2011, Fitch Ratings said at a Nov. 15 presentation in Warsaw.

Polish exports of electricity to Germany, Sweden, the Czech Republic and Slovakia fell 40 percent between 2006 and 2009, according to PSE. Imports from the same countries rose 55 percent in the same period.

Poland will build 860 megawatts of lignite coal-fired capacity next year and decommission 206 megawatts, according to data from PSE and PGE SA, the country’s largest utility. No new hard coal or gas-fired plants are scheduled to come online before 2014, while PGE plans to decommission a further 412 megawatts by 2013, the Warsaw-based company said in October 2009.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-01/power-shortage-across-poland-drives-prices-above-germany-s-energy-markets.html

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1. Ick. Not just coal, but lignite. Double ick. nt

[happyslug]

2. There have "Hard Coal" in Poland?

"Hard Coal" Anthracite In the US:

http://cosmopolitanreview.com/articles/39-feature/173-the-anthracite-coal-region

Now, Brzeszcze Poland appears to have Anthracite coal, but most European coal is ligate (as is Most Western US Coal) but most coal in Poland is Bituminous:

http://www.caer.uky.edu/iea/ieacs01.shtml

http://www.mapsofworld.com/business/industries/coal-energy/world-coal-deposits.html

Below is a Polish Coal Map, uses the terms "Hard Coal" and "Lignite" but not Bituminous:


More on Coal:
http://maps.thefullwiki.org/Coal