POLAND | PAVILION MEET POLAND’S NUCLEAR SECTOR AT WNE2021
First power Poland has no nuclear power site at present, but by 2040 it aims for nuclear to supply 16% of its power needs.
NUCLEAR SITES Work began on a nuclear power plant at Zarnowiec, an inland site, in the 1980s, but that project was cancelled. Now Zarnowiec is on a list of potential sites for construction, along with Lubiatowo- Kopalino on the Baltic Sea and possibly the site of an existing coal-fired plant at Kurchatow.
NUCLEAR GENERATORS PGE Polska Grupa Energetyuczna is by far the biggest generator in Poland; it has 40% market share compared to the next largest company, Enea, which has 16%. Other generators typically have a few per cent of the market. Poland’s existing heavy industry and its
resource extraction industry, including copper mining company KGHM, have indicated an interest in investing in small modular reactors based on existing industrial sites.
NUCLEAR NEW-BUILD Under the Polish government’s new Energy Strategy, it plans to construct six nuclear power units. It aims for the first 1GW reactor to be operable by 2033, with subsequent reactors coming online every two to three years until the target of six units is reached. Poland has also become a focus of interest for
companies seeking to develop small modular reactors (SMRs).
[This strategy] . . . is completely shifting the energy landscape of a member state in just 20 years.
“In the next 20 years we will be building a new additional energy system comparable in its size to the existing one that works only on zero-emission sources: offshore, nuclear, photovoltaic, biogas, biomass, geothermal.”
Michal Kurtyka, climate and environment minister
US-based NuScale Power, KGHM Polska Miedz, and Piela Business Engineering (PBE) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore the deployment of NuScale’s small modular reactor (SMR) technology as a coal repurposing solution for existing coal-fired power plants and electricity and heat for KGHM’s industrial processes in Poland. Another MoU was signed on a potential fleet of BWRX-300 SMRs in Poland.
The changes in the climate are forcing us to take decisive action.
We are pioneers in Poland and we expect the first of our nuclear power reactors to come online in 2029.”
Marcin Chludziński, president of the management board, KGHM
2040
In less than 20 years nuclear should provide 16 per cent of power
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