Is it moral, socially and environmentally ethical for large dominant power companies generating energy mainly from burning coal and lignite to turn off other RES-based energy sources, is it consistent with climate policy and is it consistent with human rights?

In a situation of rising energy prices and the need to accelerate the processes of green transformation of the economy, is it moral, social and environmental to shut down the large dominant power companies that generate energy mainly from burning coal and lignite other sources of energy, including mainly the cheapest and emission-free generation of electricity, shutting down power plants based on photovoltaic panels, not accepting periodic increases in energy production generated from the sun and wind, so as not to reduce energy production from dirty, high-emission energy based on burning coal is moral, socially and environmentally ethical, is in line with climate policy and is in line with human rights?

I ask because such an irrational situation exists in the country where I operate. In my opinion, in a situation of rising energy prices and the need to accelerate the processes of green transformation of the economy, the shutdown of power plants based on photovoltaic panels by the large dominant power companies that produce energy mainly from the combustion of coal and lignite other sources of energy, including mainly the cheapest and emission-free production of electricity, not adopting a periodic increase in energy production generated from the sun and wind, so as not to reduce energy production from dirty, high-emission coal-burning power plants is not moral, socially and environmentally ethical, not in line with sound climate policy and not in line with human rights. The key problem with climate, environmental and energy policy is that it is not conducted fairly. Instead, it is conducted haphazardly, shortsightedly, unstrategically and is politicized in the negative sense of the word. Despite the fact that most of the mining sector, coal and lignite mines, companies in the energy sector and the country's largest fuel and energy company, which holds more than 90 percent of the domestic market share in the sale of motor fuels, are state-owned companies and could carry out in an efficient, comprehensive and strategic manner the process of green energy transition, they unfortunately do not do so. There are many indications that climate, environmental and energy policies are being conducted haphazardly and short-sightedly. The full synergy and correlation that should occur between these policies is missing. Unfortunately, economic aspects are also not key, as they are mixed with political aspects, in which the economic calculus is not treated as a principled factor, and this is in addition to the high level of indebtedness of the state's public finance system and the growing level of the budget deficit in the central state budget. The government has pledged to implement the green transformation of the economy in accordance with the European Union's Green Deal plan. The country receives subsidies from the European Union for the implementation of this plan, including subsidies from the National Reconstruction Plan, which should be allocated mainly to efficiently carried out green investments to carry out the green transformation of the energy industry and achieve the goal of building a sustainable, emission-free energy industry in the shortest possible time. However, this is not happening. Onshore wind power development is still administratively and normatively largely restricted. On sunny, cloudless days and when the wind is blowing, additional energy is generated from already installed photovoltaic panels and wind farms, which is not collected from prosumers by large power companies due to unsuitable transmission networks. Besides, the dominant power companies in the market do not collect clean energy from the mentioned RES sources in order not to reduce the production of energy generated by the conventional method of burning coal and lignite. In addition, the dominant energy companies are lobbying in the political sphere to restrict the development of RES and are causing restrictions on the process of issuing permits for citizens to make further connections to the power grid of prosumer wind turbines and/or photovoltaic installations built by citizens. In addition, there is another extension of the start of construction and implementation of the project to build the first nuclear power plant in a country where the energy industry still relies 3/4 on conventional energy production, i.e. on the basis of burning fossils, much of which is imported, there are situations of energy shortages and eggs to buy from abroad, and the quality of air due to the dominance of combustion energy in the heating season is among the worst in Europe. On the basis of my research, I conclude that this activity is immoral, socially and environmentally unethical, does not comply with climate policy and is not compatible with human rights. Confirmation of the aforementioned thesis is provided by the results of the research I described in my publications given below.

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In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:

In a situation of rising energy prices and the need to accelerate the processes of green transformation of the economy, does the shutdown of other sources of energy by the large dominant power companies that produce energy mainly from the combustion of coal and lignite, including mainly the cheapest and emission-free production of electricity, shutting down power plants based on photovoltaic panels, not accepting periodic increases in energy production generated from the sun and wind, so as not to reduce energy production from dirty, high-emission power generation based on burning coal is moral, socially and environmentally ethical, is in line with climate policy and is it compatible with human rights?

Is it moral, socially and environmentally ethical for large dominant power companies that generate energy mainly from burning coal and lignite to shut down other RES-based energy sources, is it consistent with climate policy and is it consistent with human rights?

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Dariusz Prokopowicz

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