The Potential of Ecological Distributed Energy Generation Systems, Situation, and Perspective for Poland

Piotr Senkus, Waldemar Glabiszewski, Aneta Wysokińska-Senkus, Szymon Cyfert and Roman Batko
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Waldemar Glabiszewski: Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management, Nicolaus Copernicus University, 87-100 Torun, Poland
Aneta Wysokińska-Senkus: Faculty of Management and Command, War Studies University Warsaw, 00-910 Warsaw, Poland
Szymon Cyfert: Institute of Management, Poznan University of Economics and Business, 61-875 Poznan, Poland
Roman Batko: Faculty of Management, Military University of Land Forces, 51-150 Wroclaw, Poland

Energies, 2021, vol. 14, issue 23, 1-26

Abstract: Poland needs to fulfill its climate goals and become “climate neutral” by 2050. The plan is intricate for the Polish Government because coal-powered power plants generate about 80 percent of electricity in the country. Although policymakers are making an effort to redesign the energy sector, a lot still remains to be done. The viral trend in that transformation involves installing photovoltaic (PV) panels by private, corporate, and self-government investors. For example, the “My energy” support program of the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management has helped finance 220,000 micro-PV installations. The achievement is significant but constitutes only partial success. PV powerplants will not simply replace coal powerplants. That is why the research on the ecological distributed energy generation systems has to be executed. The article presents the research results on ecological distributed energy generation systems, making the transformation of the Polish energy sector possible. The study’s primary objectives were to review the energy situation with particular attention paid to the technologies that could be used as the ecological distributed energy generation systems and draw the scenarios for the sector development. The authors used Desk research, the Delphi method supported with the Computer Assisted-Web Interview (CAWI) technique, and the Weighted SWOT analysis to fulfill the objectives. The findings showed that photovoltaic (PV) systems would be the fastest-growing energy sector even in the perspective of doubling the energy consumption by 2050. Private investors investing in ecological distributed energy generation systems, especially the PV systems mentioned above, and biomass or biogas systems, would significantly help policymakers, including those in Poland, fulfill the climate goals.

Keywords: alternative energy sources; photovoltaic systems; wind systems; hydropower systems; biogas; biomass systems (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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