The government hopes to produce a fifth of Poland’s electricity from offshore wind by 2040 as it moves away from coal towards renewables and nuclear.
The government hopes to produce a fifth of Poland’s electricity from offshore wind by 2040 as it moves away from coal towards renewables and nuclear.
The distance that wind turbines could be build from residential buildings would be reduced to 500 metres.
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The climate minister says the bill will help reduce electricity prices but the conservative opposition has criticised the plans.
Turbines from the plant will supply Poland’s first offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea.
The “10H” rule currently forbids the construction of wind farms where there are buildings within a distance of ten times the height of the turbine.