{"id":7630,"date":"2012-12-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.psew.pl\/?p=7630"},"modified":"2024-04-02T08:34:46","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T08:34:46","slug":"polish-wind-much-less-expensive-than-nuclear-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psew.pl\/en\/polish-wind-much-less-expensive-than-nuclear-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish wind much less expensive than nuclear power"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Continuous and rapid technological progress, improving economic indices and increasingly better wind turbine efficiency with zero fuel costs.<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>In accordance with the Polish Wind Energy Association our country faces a situation where it has to clearly select its energy future \u2013 either we continue to support renewable energy development, investing primarily in the most profitable energy source, wind, or we go for nuclear power.<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>The lack of a clear decision resulting in the current ambiguity results in budget expenditures on the nuclear power sector amounting to approximately PLN 200 million per year!<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>These funds could be used to build modern RES installations, develop power grid or ensure energy supply to 200 thousand so-called vulnerable consumers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The PLN 200 million per year includes maintenance cost of the National Atomic Energy Agency and maintenance costs of numerous State Treasury companies participating in the nuclear programme.Furthermore, it also includes the cost of social campaign promoting the technology.\u00a0The final construction cost of a nuclear power plant is unknown; it is unknown when it would commence electricity production and how much will the electricity cost.\u00a0Even nuclear power supporters admit that the investment will not be possible without public funding.\u00a0No other sources of finance and credits could be acquired.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018In Polish conditions nuclear power is highly uncertain and risky.<\/em>\u00a0<em>No nuclear power plant to date was built on commercial terms<\/em>\u2019, said Krzysztof Prasa\u0142ek, PWEA President. \u2018<em>We spend huge amounts of money for simple propaganda and virtual nuclear programme without any guarantee that a true power plant that will produce electricity will be ever built.<\/em>\u00a0<em>Instead of nuclear power we propose true investments, actual diversification of energy sources and improvement in grid quality.<\/em>\u00a0<em>We also propose continuous and certain revenues for local governments, maintenance of agricultural character of Polish rural areas and jobs in a modern industry with a bright future.<\/em>\u2019<\/p>\n<p>In accordance with the Ernst&amp;Young report \u201cThe impact of wind energy on economic growth in Poland\u201d the construction cost of a hard-coal fired power plant amounts to 6.6 million PLN\/MW \u2013 as much as for a wind turbine.\u00a0Construction of a gas power plant is much less expensive \u2013 approximately 3.9 million PLN\/MW.\u00a0However, the construction of a nuclear power plant is very expensive \u2013 14.4 million PLN\/MW.<\/p>\n<p>Today Poland has 2.3 GW of wind installed capacity.\u00a0To date investments in the wind energy sector in Poland attracted PLN 16 billion of capital.\u00a0It has to be stressed that approximately 30 percent of the investment (approximately PLN 4.8 billion) was spent in Poland, whereas the support scheme amounted to approximately PLN 1.5 billion only.\u00a0Assuming that the capacity will increase in line with the estimates, in the years 2012 \u2013 2020 the total value of investment in Poland may amount to approximately PLN 23 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Diversified wind energy brings economic, ecological and social benefits for many local communities \u2013 contrary to nuclear power, which operates only as a part of centralised energy systems.\u00a0Simply put \u2013 one huge nuclear power plant will bring potential profits to just one local community and owners of the land where the investment will be built.\u00a0Distributed wind energy is an opportunity for virtually every commune in Poland.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018<em>Nuclear power is a scheme where \u201cfew earn on many\u201d\u2019<\/em>, Krzysztof Prasa\u0142ek stresses. \u2018<em>Wind not only brings diversification of energy sources, but also benefits for thousands of small subjects, small rural communes and farmers.<\/em>\u00a0<em>Revenues from real property tax, lease of communal land or communes\u2019 share in PIT and CIT sometimes amount to 50% of communes\u2019 revenues.<\/em>\u00a0<em>Wind farms also bring revenues from farmland lease, contribute to the creation of new jobs and development of grid and communal infrastructure.<\/em>\u00a0<em>Moreover, the technology is ecological, environmentally-friendly: in accordance with the World Health Organisation wind is the safest energy production technology in terms of human health and life.<\/em>\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Do you know that&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Germans intend to abandon nuclear power by 2022.<\/li>\n<li>Belgian authorities agreed on the decommissioning of two existing nuclear power plants.\u00a0In accordance with the agreement three oldest reactors will be shut down by 2015.\u00a0The plants will be eventually decommissioned by 2025, provided that renewable energy will satisfy Belgium\u2019s demand by that time.<\/li>\n<li>Switzerland \u2013 is to abandon nuclear power and go for RES.\u00a0The government is certain that the new energy policy based on the exploitation of renewable energy sources\u2019 (RES) potential will open new opportunities for Switzerland.<\/li>\n<li>Nuclear power supporters often skip (or consciously understate) nuclear power plant demolition costs after their decommissioning.\u00a0The assumed reactor lifetime is usually 30-40 years, whereas the land reclamation and gradual nuclear power plant demolition period is estimated for at least 60 years [Savacool (2008)].<\/li>\n<li>United Kingdom established a dedicated Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) to tackle gradual decommissioning of nuclear power plants.\u00a0The project costs were initially estimated at \u00a335 billion (in 2006), only to be later increased to \u00a345 billion (in 2009); in 2012 it was increased to \u00a353 billion.\u00a0The final land reclamation date for most British nuclear power plants has been established at 2080-2110.<\/li>\n<li>The 2014-2020 EU budget assumes that by the end of 2020 Lithuania will receive \u20ac460 million to decommission the Ignalin nuclear power plant.<\/li>\n<li>Too much risk and high costs caused the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to withdraw from financing new nuclear power plants.\u00a0This is more important given the fact that to date no nuclear power plant was built on commercial terms.<\/li>\n<li>PGE estimates total capital 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