EU CARBON RULES MAY HINDER POLAND’S PLANS FOR NEW COAL POWER STATIONS
March 1st, 2011
BY KEITH NUTHALL
POLAND may struggle to issue free emissions trading permits for planned new coal-fired power stations, with the European Commission releasing rules saying only projects with construction projects under way before January 2009 could receive them.
The guidelines come in Brussels' latest set of rules on releasing permits under the European Union (EU) emissions trading system for 2013-20. It wants to restrict free permits, preferring they be auctioned. But taking account of the difficult position of some electricity industries, especially in eastern ...
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