Climate Changed
One of Europe’s Biggest Polluters Is Turning Toward Wind Power
- Poland’s largest utility looking to build Baltic Sea wind farm
- Higher carbon prices and lower turbine costs drive the shift
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After decades of prompting coal as the guarantor of national energy security, Europe’s fourth-biggest greenhouse-gas polluter is shifting to embrace wind power.
PGE SA, which is Poland’s largest utility, wants to turn to turbines to harness the breezes in the Baltic Sea and eventually supply 2.5 gigawatts from the technology by 2030. It is considering teaming up with one of the top European players in the project and is also working to speed up investments in generation plants fired by gas and those that use combined heat and power technology, according to Monika Morawiecka, the company’s director of strategy.