US Ambassador to Poland: Baltic Pipe is an investment in Poland’s future
The Baltic Pipe gas pipeline is an investment in Poland’s future. The news of the opening of the pipeline is very important and new, diversified energy sources are key to the prosperity of Polish citizens, US Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski assessed in an interview with PAP (Polish Press Agency) on Tuesday.
At the gas compressor station in Goleniów, the transmission of gas through the Baltic Pipe pipeline was symbolically launched on Tuesday. The pipeline creates a new supply route for natural gas from Norway via Denmark to Poland. The symbolic unscrewing of the valve on the pipeline was carried out by President Andrzej Duda, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.
US Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski was asked in an interview with Polish Press Agency (PAP) on Tuesday whether he felt the opening of Baltic Pipe was a good move.
– I wanted to congratulate Poland for investing in its future. The Polish economy, Polish citizens, in order to develop need energy and they had to move away from two dependencies – on coal and Russian energy sources, so this information from today is very important,” he assessed.
He stressed that new, diversified energy sources are “the key to prosperity”.
– We Americans want Poles to live not only in freedom, but to live in affluence and to do well, he added.
Brzezinski said that he hoped that the Polish government would also make decisions favourable to Poles in the context of investing in nuclear energy. He recalled that the US, as part of a consortium of Westinghouse and Bechtel, had submitted a bid to build a nuclear power plant in Poland. The selection of the US bid, in his opinion, “will bring our countries closer for the next 100 years in terms of energy cooperation”.
– This is important for Poland, for its future, so I hope that the consortium of Westinghouse and Bechtel will be selected, because it will be very beneficial for the region and for Poland, which will really become an energy hub,” said the US ambassador to Poland.
According to the Polish Nuclear Power Programme (PPEJ), Poland plans to build modern, but proven and large PWR reactors. Poland’s Energy Policy until 2040 assumes that the first unit of a Polish nuclear power plant with a capacity of about 1-1.6 GW will be commissioned in 2033. Subsequent units will be implemented every two to three years, and the entire nuclear programme assumes the construction of six units of up to 9 GW. Bids for the Polish government have been submitted by EDF, Korea’s KHNP and Westinghouse in cooperation with the US government.
Source: PortalMorski.pl
