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Poland’s factories are having to restrict output as electricity supplies are cut during an unusually hot summer

Poland’s factories are having to restrict output as electricity supplies are cut during an unusually hot summer

Poland’s factories are having to restrict output as electricity supplies are cut during an unusually hot summer

While our politicians busily dick about at the fringes of energy policy, we have a real life example of what can happen when an old and inefficient generation network collides with a dynamic industrial economy and a very un-dynamic political establishment.

Poland’s factories, which account for around a third of GDP, are having to restrict output as electricity supplies are cut during an unusually hot summer.

It’s not even a resource issue; Poland has loads of coal to burn, so much in fact that it exports a lot to the UK. The problem is the communist era generation capacity which is incompatible with the thriving country Poland has become. 

Read more at the Financial Times.

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