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Poland May Halt Free CO2 Permits for Utilities to Boost Budget

By District Energy posted 06-13-2019 12:02

  
Ewa Krukowska, Bloomberg

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Poland is poised to give up handing out free carbon permits to utilities, opting instead to sell those allowances and boost state funds.

As of 2021, the country will probably forgo an exemption to European Union emissions market rules that lets electricity producers get free allowances, according to two people with knowledge of the issue. The government is yet to decide how to sell the minimum 270 million permits currently worth about 6.5 billion euros ($7.3 billion) that would be available in the 2021-2030 period.

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