Will electricity from Polish offshore wind be expensive?

For some time now, the Polish Internet has been "electrified" by the topic of expensive electricity from offshore wind farms. Also, President of Polskie Sieci Energetyczne Mr. Grzegorz Onichimowski raises the issue of expensive offshore electricity in his interviews. Poland's offshore is just beginning to build, and if we are indeed going to have expensive energy, then what is its future.

During the panel, we want to address this topic and consider the inevitability of events as well as the mitigation of the risks arising from them – whether this is possible, and if so, how.

Also, we will want to reflect on the future of the Polish offshore industry, the investments that have taken place as well as plans for the future.

Moderator: Andrzej Buczkowski

M.Sc. in shipbuilding by education, and a world-class shipbuilding manager by experience, managing not only shipyards or individual shipbuilding projects, but also managing subcontractor plants that produce for shipbuilding.

INFORMATION ABOUT THE PANEL LEADER

TOMASZ PELC

Owner of NEXUS Consultants, specializing in complex projects in marketing, finance, management and organization, as well as obtaining external funding (including EU funds).

He has completed more than 1,500 consulting projects for large and medium-sized companies in a wide range of industries, particularly energy, chemicals, retail and logistics, services, public organizations and others. To date, he has worked for major energy companies in Poland and abroad, such as: ENERGA, ENEA, TAURON, PGE, PGNiG, EDF, Iberdrola, SPAC, RWE, CEZ. He has also been involved in major hydrogen projects in Poland, in the areas of hydrogen distribution in gas pipelines, storage in salt caverns, and the production of renewable energy and its conversion to hydrogen.

Author of a hydrogen roadmap for one of Poland's largest companies. Initiated the establishment of the Hydrogen Technology Cluster. Thanks to his involvement, such projects as the "Pomeranian Hydrogen Valley," the "PCHET" conference and the "Hy-way to Hel" sub-project on hydrogen public transport (bus, rail and sea) connecting Gdynia, Sopot and Gdańsk with the Hel Peninsula were created.

The creator of the "100MW H2" project, the construction of local ecosystems that provide local communities with energy resilience, i.e. the provision of electricity, heat and hot water, where surplus energy is converted into hydrogen.

Initiator of many activities implementing elements of the zero-carbon economy, including hydrogen such as: Wielkopolska Hydrogen Strategy, Hydrogen Podlasie, Hydrogen Congress or Polish Hydrogen Chamber.