Poland added 1.27GW last year, to become Europe's second-largest market for new wind installations after Germany, and investors were upbeat that a new renewables act introducing tenders would lead to steady long-term growth in Eastern Europe's biggest economy.
But the new legislation could change all that.
The draft Act on Investments in Wind Farms introduced by Law and Justice party Members of Parliament "will literally kill off onshore wind in Poland", Hubert Wysoczański, a Warsaw-based lawyer at K&L Gates, an international energy and environmental dispute resolution practice, tells Recharge.
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