By Marcin Sobczyk
WARSAW--Poland may take longer than previously thought to build
a nuclear power plant because of changes in the European energy
market, the country's prime minister said Tuesday.
The pace with which Poland will develop its nuclear power
capability will depend on how the European energy market evolves,
Donald Tusk said Tuesday.
State-controlled PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna SA (PGE.WA) has
been made the leader of the program to build Poland's first nuclear
power plant. Amid falling electricity prices, Polish officials have
said a final decision could be made in 2015, while PGE has said
nuclear energy and shale gas, another Polish priority, were
mutually exclusive.
"Our approach to nuclear energy hasn't changed, but we'll be
flexible," he told a press conference. "I'm not ruling out that in
the energy mix the place for nuclear power will be found at a more
distant future than we planned earlier, mainly due to the increase
of the importance of natural gas, including domestically produced
gas, as a source of energy."
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