GDF Suez to claim damages over change to Polish laws

GDF Suez has piled onto the furore over planned changes to Poland’s renewables law, threatening to demand compensation from the government if it cuts support for certain technologies.

The French mega-utility is most concerned about a proposed reduction in support for biomass co-firing, but it would also be affected by any alterations to the country's wind-support regime.

Grzegorz Gorski, head of GDF Suez’s Polish unit, says the company will “demand several hundred million zlotys from the state” if the law goes ahead as planned. That would equate to a figure in excess of $50m.

The new rules “are significantly worse than those in the currently applicable energy law”, he told Polish business newspaper Puls Biznesu.

The draft renewables bill proposed in July,…

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