Importance of Agriculture in Creating Energy Security—A Case Study of Poland

Stanisław Bielski, Renata Marks-Bielska, Anna Zielińska-Chmielewska, Kęstutis Romaneckas and Egidijus Šarauskis
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Stanisław Bielski: Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, M. Oczapowskiego 8, 10-718 Olsztyn, Poland
Renata Marks-Bielska: Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, M. Oczapowskiego 4/300, 10-719 Olsztyn, Poland
Anna Zielińska-Chmielewska: Institute of Economics, Poznań University of Economics and Business, Al. Niepodległości 10, 61-875 Poznań, Poland
Kęstutis Romaneckas: Agriculture Academy, Vytautas Magnus University, K. Donelaičio str. 58, 44248 Kaunas, Lithuania
Egidijus Šarauskis: Agriculture Academy, Vytautas Magnus University, K. Donelaičio str. 58, 44248 Kaunas, Lithuania

Energies, 2021, vol. 14, issue 9, 1-20

Abstract: Analyses of statistical data were made and their results discussed in this article to identify the level of Poland’s energy security and to determine the role of agriculture in ensuring it. It has been demonstrated that coal continues to be the staple resource for the generation of energy in Poland. The current demands and requirements concerning the reduced consumption of non-renewable resources and Poland’s obligations towards the European Union regarding the production of energy from renewable resources—all these considerations contribute to the promotion of a skillful development of energy crop farming, which, in Poland, is likely to be very successful. Agriculture plays an important role in ensuring Poland’s energy security, and this branch of farming can grow dynamically provided adequate legal regulations and promotion are in place. The chief resource for renewable energy generation is biomass. Straw and biogas production in agricultural biogas plants are two solutions whose full energy production potential still awaits to be tapped.

Keywords: energy agriculture; biomass; biofuels; renewable energy sources (RES); Poland (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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