Rzeczpospolita August 21 st, 2002
'There are the turbines, but who is to buy the power?'

Wind power stations are about to go bankrupt. From July 1st on they are producing electric energy , on which there are no receivers.

The author of the article Krystyna Forowicz, describes the stalemate situation of investors, who own wind farms in Poland.

At present 30 windmills with the joint power of about 28 MW work on our sea-coast. If the new regulations will not frighten away foreign firms , then on the Polish sea-coast only 2 thousand turbines will come into being. However the URE President Leszek Juchniewicz, quoted in the article affirms, that the development of wind power industry on large scales, would effect in the rise of energy prices. According to the President, Poland does not need expensive wind powers. Rzeczpospolita also reminds the reasons of the confusion growing around the wind power industry in our country. July 1 st the Polish Electric Power Industry Networks introduced changes to the regulations of the Market Balancing Rules (new rules of the purchase and the sale of the energy settlements).

Krystian Stachowiak, the President of the Board of the Energy-Eco company addressed a complaint to the Office of the Protection of the Competition and Consumers." Introduced changes cause PSE, by the costs of the wind power industry, wants to reach additional financial advantages, driving the resultant wind farms to fall " - he said. The Manager of the Electricity Board Koszalin Jarosław Ciechanowicz admitted in the statement for the Rzeczpospolita, that in the case of wind power stations the hourly planning of the electrical energy is impossible. The Electricity Board Koszalin appealed to PSE and URE for the dismissal from announcing in the graphic schedule of all the renewable sources , attending it is necessary to change the decrees and orders of the energy- law.

"There are the turbines, but who is to buy the power? (PDF)"