According to the agency, Morawiecki visited the Szczecin region, where local residents asked him why only one of the three coal warehouses in the region was working, offering coal at 2.9 thousand zlotys (about $620) per ton.
“Indeed, there is a problem at the intersection of our attempt to build a system that will lead to the fact that it will be possible to buy coal at this fixed price, and the free market, which should have responded adequately.
Similar problems from other parts of the country also reach me that the coal depots do not have the will to cooperate that we assumed at the beginning,” the Prime Minister replied.
The biggest problem is that “there is not enough coal at all,” he added.
He explained that coal for furnaces was supplied to Poland in recent years from Russia.
“State-owned companies were asked to order this coal from Colombia, Indonesia, around the world.
So that ships with coal sail to Poland, ”added the prime minister.
With the availability of coal, Poland will have “a lot of problems in the coming weeks, months,” Morawiecki said.
Earlier, the Prime Minister of Poland said that the EU should temporarily return to the use of traditional energy sources, in particular coal, and abandon green energy amid the energy crisis.
At the same time, Poland also announced its intention to continue developing coal energy, despite the trends observed in the European Union.