WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland will “radically increase” wind power capacity despite last week’s decision by President Karol Nawrocki to veto a bill aimed at easing rules for building onshore wind farms, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Wednesday.
The vetoed bill would have cut the distance required between planned installations and residential locations.
“We will radically increase onshore wind capacity because this is the cheapest source of electricity,” Tusk told reporters.
He said the government was working on a resolution to allow more efficient wind turbines to be installed at existing wind farms.
Government resolutions do not require legislative backing by parliament and so are not subject to presidential approval.
Renewable energy production has been increasing in Poland at the expense of coal-fired power, though the latter still dominates the mix. In 2024, nearly 30% of Polish electricity was generated from renewable sources.
(Reporting by Marek Strzelecki and Pawel Florkiewicz. Editing by Mark Potter)
