THE ELECTRICITY TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION NETWORK AS A BARRIER TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES IN POLAND

Sławomir Jankieiwcz, Dominika Mierzwa

ABSTRACT: One of the major goals that Poland is aiming at nowadays is ensuring the country’s energy security together with limiting harmful gas and dust emissions into the atmosphere. Therefore, the government puts a lot of pressure onto low emission economy development. This means, among other things, the necessity of consistent increase in the renewable sources energy production. Poland has a high potential with this respect, however, there are difficulties in creating the economy’s output potential. The following paper is aimed to analyze synthetically the transmission grid infrastructure which is one of the most significant obstacles in the development of the country’s renewable energy sources.

Keywords: Economic policy, low-emission economy, renewable energy sources.