Cutting Emissions in the Energy Sector: a Technological and Regulatory Perspective
Streszczenie
The generation of utilizable forms of energy, mainly electricity and heat, carries
an environmental impact – as does any human industrial activity. In the case of
the power industry based on fossil fuels, this impact is connected with the emission
of technological by-products, not necessarily of a material character. It is obvious
that the Polish point of view on this problem is connected with the unique degree
of dependence of the national power industry on coal. Two aspects of the emission
reduction problem are analyzed in this article: the technological, connected with
the permanent development of flue-gas cleaning; and the administrative, connected
with limiting the permissible polluter concentration in flue gases. It is shown that
during the development of the power industry to date, those relations led to an
effectiveness (efficiency) of flue-gas cleaning installations which seemed impossible
at the moment of its implementation. The main goal of this work is to demonstrate
that the regulations being introduced by the European Commission strongly
disturb the present relations between technical capabilities and administrative
requirements.
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