OFFICIAL SHOW DAILY Global Wind Summit 2018 Visit us at Stand 318, Hall B7 Visit us at Stand 318, Hall B7 Produced by RECHARGE rechargenews.com Poland to unveil 1GW renewables tender BERND RADOWITZ Photograph Bernd Radowitz P olands energy regulator is expected to announce details of a close-to-1GW tender for large onshore wind and solar projects next week, to be held before year-end, a senior Polish government official tells Recharge. In an interview at the Global Wind Summit yesterday, Andrzej Kazmierski, director for renewable energy and distributed energy at the Polish ministry of energy, explained that wind projects participating in the auction will be exempt from a damaging distance rule introduced in 2016. The rule, which banned turbines being erected closer than ten times its tip height to the nearest settlement, effectively killed off the countrys previously vibrant onshore wind expansion. Including wind in the upcoming tender was made possible by a recent amendment to Polands Renewable Sources Act, which extends the validity of existing building permits to mid-2021, and also restores rules for charging property tax for wind turbines to lower pre-2017 levels. High property taxes would otherwise have made new investments very difficult. The Polish wind sector is nevertheless appealing to the government in Warsaw, led by the populist Law and Justice Party, to DAY 28 September 2018 FOUR Polish energy official Andrzej Kazmierski, speaking to Recharge at the Global Wind Summit yesterday. make more lasting reforms that would reverse the damaging rules enacted in 2016. Kazmierski hinted at a change of heart over the governments previously very staunchly pro-coal position. We are not [pro] coal because we like the smoke. We need to change the grid, we need to change the distribution system, we need to change many things before we will go for renewables, he said. 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