“The windmill act, because in fact we should call it, it is a kind of blackmail of the parliamentary majority and the government. (…) This act applies to windmills, not a reduction in electricity prices” – said President Nawrocki during a press conference.
The amendment to the Act on investments in the field of wind farms assumed the abolition of the 10h principle introduced in 2016, and replacing it with a minimum distance of 500 meters from residential buildings. The current limit is 700 meters.
During the parliamentary work, a correction was also added to the extension of freezing energy prices – by the end of the 4th quarter of 2025 at the level of PLN 500 per MWH net. Currently, the mechanism is valid until the end of September this year.
The decision to combine the provisions regarding windmills and electricity prices caused doubts whether the president would decide to sign the act. The minister of climate and environment Paulina Hennig-Kloska explained earlier that the amendment was introduced because “In connection with the upcoming holiday break in the Sejm, there was no time to proceed with a separate act on frozen prices, and in the Sejm there was already a draft amendment to the windmill act. “
