The enormous potential of Polish wind energy remains untapped, despite a high feed-in tariff. The government and most of the regions remain committed to coal and promote renewables only half-heartedly.Wind turbines can easily cover 10 percent of Poland's electricity demand", believes Janusz Gajowiecki of the Polish Wind Ener-gy Association (PWEA). It would take wind turbines to-talling a capacity of 12,000 MW to achieve this goal. Initially this seems somewhat optimistic: because PWEA reports that wind turbines with a capacity of about 1,100 MW were rotating between the Oder in the West and Belarus and the Ukraine in the East in late September.
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