Draft Amendment To The Polish RES Act

A short draft amendment to the Renewable Energy Sources Act of 20 February 2015 ("RES Act") has just been published by the Polish Parliament. The bill aims at postponing by 6 months the change of the support scheme for renewable energy sources from green certificates to the auction based support. The change is scheduled to enter in force on 31 December 2015.

1) Purpose of the amendment

The main reasons given for proposing the bill are:

• The need for additional impact assessments and introducing instruments preventing the alleged risk of insolvency of existing agricultural bio-gas installations and promoting their further development;
• The preparation of the necessary regulations on the location and construction of onshore wind farms;