On May 28th, in the Science and Technology Park of the National Centre for Nuclear Research in Otwock-Świerk, a gathering of undertaking stakeholders and the Net-Zero Poland Advisory Committee befell. The occasion was devoted to chose outcomes of the second section of the undertaking and dialogue on doable paths to realize zero internet emissions by Poland by 2050.
The friends have been welcomed by Prof. Anna Skorek-Osikowska, Net-Zero Poland Project Leader, and Prof. Jakub Kupecki, Director of the National Centre for Nuclear Research. The Silesian University of Technology, as the undertaking chief, was strongly represented throughout the seminar each in the organizational and substantive half.
One of the highlights of the program was the presentation by Dr Michał Kurtyka, Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the NZP, former Minister of Climate and Environment and President of COP24. In his speech on the broader context of the power transition, he identified that the up to date power debate is more and more going past price, effectivity, and local weather targets, specializing in system resilience. As he emphasised, resilience ought to be understood not solely as the capacity to decarbonize, but additionally as the capacity of societies and economies to answer shocks, preserve strategic autonomy and preserve continuity of operations underneath stress.
The seminar was a chance to speak about what Poland’s path to attaining internet zero emissions by 2050 may appear to be – in sectoral, spatial, and temporal phrases. Particular consideration was paid to chose outcomes of the second section of the NZP undertaking and points associated to the distribution of technology sources, modelling of the growth of the energy grid, system reliability, transformation of transport and heating trade, power storage applied sciences, and the map of Poland’s emissions till 2050.
In the half dedicated to the outcomes of the undertaking, representatives of the Silesian University of Technology introduced their speeches:
- Dr Hab. Eng. Jakub Jurasz – Spatial and temporal scaling – preliminary outcomes of the second section of the undertaking for chosen Net-Zero eventualities,
- Dr Eng. Krzysztof Rusin – Reliability evaluation of the Net-Zero system,
- Dr Eng. Wojciech Uchman – Downscaling chosen power storage applied sciences,
- Dr Hab. Eng. Sebastian Rulik, Prof. SUT – Heating trade transformation: From coal to zero-emission techniques,
- Dr Hab. Eng. Jacek Kalina, Prof. SUT – Heating trade transformation: Identification of limitations and dangers of funding processes,
- Dr Eng. Daria Katla – Poland’s emissions map to 2050.
The seminar was additionally attended by representatives of different establishments concerned in the undertaking, together with Bogdan Czarnecki and Ewa Andruszków from the Institute of Power Engineering – National Research Institute. The program additionally included a Q&A session and a technical go to to THE MARIA nuclear reactor.
The assembly had a personality of a dialog with undertaking stakeholders. Nearly 100 members represented the scientific neighborhood, public administration, power sector, trade, regulatory establishments, and social organizations. Their questions, feedback and suggestions will probably be an necessary contribution to the additional growth of eventualities and analytical instruments created as half of the Net-Zero Poland undertaking.
The Net-Zero Poland undertaking goals to help the definition of formidable, however at the identical time reasonable paths of Poland’s transformation towards local weather neutrality. The outcomes of the analyses are supposed to serve a greater understanding of the penalties of numerous transformation choices and to help the strategic debate on the future of the Polish energy engineering system.
We cordially invite you to go to the undertaking web site: www.netzeropoland.pl and social media (https://www.linkedin.com/company/net-zero-poland/), the place you may be taught extra about the deliberate occasions!
tekst: Wojciech Uchman
foto: Mariusz Krzemiński