Poland has gone from hero to zero in the wind sector in a few short years.

In 2015, the country installed 1.27GW of onshore wind — more than any other nation in Europe except Germany. Two years later, it erected a pitiful 41MW.

The fall from grace has been due to the pro-coal, anti-renewables policies of the right-wing nationalist government elected in October 2015, which passed a rule that, in practice, prohibited the installation of wind farms 1.5-2km