As the government representative tells us, the NECP update will be presented next Wednesday, December 17. The day after the Polish Power Grids strategy. NECP is a strategic plan defining Polish goals on the way to the energy transformation by 2030, with a perspective until 2040. The government must submit it to Brussels, which is already late.
When asked whether anything will change in the NECP regarding nuclear energy, Wojciech Wrochna replies: There will be more power in the atom and there will be no distinction between large atom and small atom.
The version of the document prepared by the Ministry of Climate and Environment assumed that in 2040, nuclear power would be responsible for 27 TWh – much less than the ministry planned a year earlier, i.e. 58 TWh of electricity. As Piotr Maciołek, an energy market analyst and former member of the management board of Polenergia, explained in an interview with Business Insider Polska in the summer, “it is clear that this amount of energy is provided only by the power plant in the Lubiatowo-Kopalino location, without small SMR reactors, without a second large nuclear power plant.”
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According to Wrochna's statement, the Ministry of Energy after taking over responsibility for the NECP from the Ministry of Climate, it decided to verify these assumptions for the benefit of the nuclear power plant.
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SMRs can count on state support in the form of a contract for difference
Asked when we can expect the road map for SMRs, Wojciech Wrochna replies: “We are ready. The final touches are being made and we will present it in the coming weeks.”
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When asked about the information circulating behind the scenes that its proposals regarding the shape of the road map were pushed by, among others, Orlen, which is a shareholder of OSGE, he admits that the ministry “had to get some support from various contributions, but the document is prepared by the Department of Nuclear Energy of the Ministry of Finance.”
When asked about what will be included in the road map, Minister Wrochna replies: – The roadmap for SMRs will, in practice, define the framework for cooperation and procedures in relations between this sector, investors and the state.. This will be a document of a different nature than the Polish Nuclear Energy Program, which very precisely indicates specific goals. SMRs are a dynamic sector today, so we need to create a cooperation framework that will ensure flexibility in relations with investors of individual projects, in the face of current market challenges.
When asked whether investors in SMRs, including OSGE, can count on contracts for difference and other forms of state support, or whether these are strictly business projects, Wojciech Wrochna replies: – No nuclear energy industry, including small nuclear reactors, will be built without state support. Today, the default support model is the Contract for Difference. Therefore, if we are thinking about supporting nuclear energy with some kind of aid system, contracts for difference come into play.
— A discussion on the support system for these investments should take place next year if the deadlines mentioned by investors such as OSGE are to be met, says Wojciech Wrochna.
And he emphasizes: – Investors must be ready and must come with viable contract for difference offers.
Government Plenipotentiary for strategic energy infrastructure, Deputy Minister of Energy Wojciech Wrochna, President of Polish Nuclear Power Plants Marek Woszczyk, Minister of Energy Miłosz Motyka, December 2025
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The Polish nuclear energy program will be submitted to the government in the first quarter of 2026
The update of the Polish Nuclear Energy Program (PPEJ), as Wojciech Wrochna says, will be ready for adoption by the government in the first quarter of next year. PPEJ specifies the Polish state's plans for the development of nuclear energy.
— We were waiting to finalize the PPEJ update for the consent of the European Commission for state aid for the power plant in Lubiatowo-Kopalina. Because this Commission decision contains important indications regarding who can become the investor of the second power plant established in this document and under what conditions he can obtain public aid – explains Wojciech Wrochna.
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— One of the important elements of the PPEJ is the identification of the investor of the second nuclear power plant, and the decision of the European Commission answers such questions as who can be an investor, how to choose it and what is the permissible energy trading model for a company with a significant market share and for a new entity. We need to analyze these elements in order to consciously decide on the next steps. The EC's decision opens the way for us to quickly work on updating the PPEJ, he says.
He adds that the ministry has already analyzed basically all the comments received during the PPEJ consultations. — We will now take into account what results from the European Commission's decision and in the first quarter of 2026 we will submit an update of the PPEJ for adoption by the government – announces.
Last Friday in Katowice, Minister of Energy Miłosz Motyka confirmed that work on Poland's Energy Policy until 2050 will begin next year. He announced it for the first time in a November interview with Business Insider Polska.
