Poland’s Backing Wind Power in the Heart of Coal Country
- Once politically divisive, cheap renewables are now popular
- Falling costs and higher carbon prices have shifted economics
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As he stood outside a coal mine during a campaign stop last month, Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki surprisingly touted the project’s green credentials.
“Without investments like this one, we wouldn’t have renewable energy and other industries that we are betting on,” Morawiecki told a crowd of miners in Silesia, the country’s coal heartland.