Planning and Settlement Conditions for the Development of Renewable Energy Sources in Poland: Conclusions for Local and Regional Policy

Przemysław Śleszyński, Maciej Nowak, Agnieszka Brelik, Bartosz Mickiewicz and Natalia Oleszczyk
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Przemysław Śleszyński: Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences, Twarda 51/55, 00-818 Warsaw, Poland
Maciej Nowak: Department of Real Estate, Faculty of Economics, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Żołnierska 47, 70-310 Szczecin, Poland
Agnieszka Brelik: Department of Regional and European Studies, Faculty of Economics, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Żołnierska 47, 70-310 Szczecin, Poland
Bartosz Mickiewicz: Department of Regional and European Studies, Faculty of Economics, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Żołnierska 47, 70-310 Szczecin, Poland
Natalia Oleszczyk: Department of Regional and European Studies, Faculty of Economics, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Żołnierska 47, 70-310 Szczecin, Poland

Energies, 2021, vol. 14, issue 7, 1-20

Abstract: The article presents an analysis of geographical-settlement and legal-planning conditions for the development of Poland’s distributed generation. The choice of this country is important and interesting due to the highly dispersed settlement, which may be a factor stimulating the development of this type of energy systems. For this reason, the analysis can be a model for other countries and regions, indicating ways to analyze and evaluate settlement and planning conditions for the development of renewable and distributed energy. At the same time, Poland is struggling with a severe crisis of spatial planning. By analysing these opportunities and threats, empirical analyses try to indicate regularities in this respect in Poland’s regions in a detailed approach to communes and detailed legal and planning conditions. The conclusions emphasise the usefulness of distributed generation development for peripheral and sparsely populated areas of Europe and other parts of the world and appropriate directions of changes in spatial development law.

Keywords: distributed generation; settlement systems; local development (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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