Poland will need large volumes of offshore wind power despite government plans to build the country’s first nuclear power station, if it wants to wean itself off coal, Janusz Gajowiecki, the president of the Polish wind energy association PWEA told Recharge.

Gajowiecki confirmed a report by Radio Poland earlier this week that the ministry of energy in Warsaw had decided to build Poland’s first nuclear power plant with a capacity of 1.2GW,