The Role Of Renewable Energy In Poland

Energy is an important part of life producing the power of movement, heat, and production of electricity in many different ways. Therefore, choosing the correct source of energy is important for the environment and humans. Renewable energy that produces electricity never runs out, causing a lower environmental impact. Solar, Biomass, Wind, Geothermal, and Hydropower energy should be used globally to produce electricity. On the other hand, producing electricity from nonrenewable energy sources can be very harmful to humans and the environment. Humans can easily be dependent on it, which may not be the best option when it comes to finance, efficiency, sustainability and more. Approximately 52% of the US electricity comes from polluting sources like natural gas, oil, nuclear, and hydropower that have a lot of disadvantages effecting the environment in a negative way.

Hydropower represents 19 percent of the world 's total electricity production and has several distinct advantages compared to other traditional power-producing methods. Hydropower plays a major role in the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions since it does not require any fuel burning, potential energy (i.e. water) supply

The switch to clean energy in the United States and around the world is a difficult necessity that must be met within the subsequent five to six decades. The prolonged use of damaging fossil fuels and other unsustainable forms of energy are greatly damaging the planet. These sources of non-renewable energy are bound to run out in the following century. Millions of square kilometers of Arctic ice has melted so far, the sea level is rising, and the CO2 levels present in the atmosphere are drastically increasing (Chang). The transition to renewable energy must be met; however, this is not a process possible to achieve overnight. This change will require an extensive amount of resources and time but will reap many benefits to the users of this growing technology.

Due to the escalation in prices of the conventional sources of energy such as fossil and nuclear fuels and their harmful effects on the environment, there is a strong motivation to develop and utilize an alternative energy resources such as solar, wind, hydro and geothermal sources... etc cite{Karki2001}- cite{Fialho2015}-cite{Zhou2007}. In 2014, renewable energy overall expanded significantly in terms

Hydroelectric power plant is one of the major power plants all over the world in order to create electricity. It is also one of the best renewable energy sources on the planet earth. In ranking, Canada is the third largest country to produce hydroelectricity power. The efficiency of this power source is 90% and this is very impressive as the percentage of efficiency is very high. Hydro power plants generate 24% of the world’s electricity. More than 1 billion people are associated with hydro power plants as they use the power supply from hydro power plants.

Although the United States has come a long way in the field of Renewable Energy, there are still major roadblocks in the way of a national shift to clean energy. Renewable energy made up only 12% of US energy production in 2016, while The three major fossil fuels—petroleum, natural gas, and coal—accounted for 78%, showing there is still a long way to go (eia.gov). This has been a particularly arduous year for environmentalist and renewable energy companies alike as there have been major political strides against clean energy. Bills, Executive Orders, and new laws have slowed the progress that Renewable Energy has been making in recent years.

One of the challenges is to manage the money supply in order to combat inflation and assure stable prices. The current plan which should ease inflation “is to provide support to the economy through monetary easing, while maintaining the pace of structural fiscal consolidation”(Central Intelligence Agency ). Another idea that could help is if the central bank raised interest rates which would promote investing or saving and would reduce borrowing. If inflation spikes and unstable prices occur Poland would be crippled and growth would be prevented and perhaps digress.

During the global financial recession when all the economies of the world were badly hit, Poland continued to grow. According to (United Nations Statistics, 2012) it was the only European country, which despite economic recession continued to record a growth rate of 1.7% in 2009. This was the period of enormous success for the country; it enjoyed and celebrated its success. This achievement made Poland prominent on the pages of global economy. Donald Tusk-the Prime Minister of Poland with regards to the economic success of Poland said (Global Post):

Iceland 's mountains, glaciers, rivers, and geothermal hot spots play a major role in sustainable energy development. Iceland has recognized their natural resources and is utilizing them to create energy production for their country. Currently, Iceland is generating nearly 100 percent renewable energy: 73% hydropower, 27% geothermal, and less than one percent fossil fuels (Orkustofnun, 2015). Melting glaciers supply an abundant resource to rivers which Iceland has harnessed to support hydropower. Hydropower is recognized as a sustainable, clean source of energy. There is concern that hydropower dams are negatively impacting

People always say work to change the future, but converting to renewable energy will change the present. According to Daniel Ciolkosz,who has advanced degrees in agricultural and architectural engineering, renewable energy is generated from natural resources that are not depleted when used. Some renewable energy sources include geothermal heat, solar, wind, and water (Ciolkosz). Wind power is turbines using the wind to spin a generator and create electricity. Solar power uses current technology to capture energy includes photovoltaic panels that turn sunlight into electricity directly without the need for a generator. Biomass is the use of plant matter and animal waste to generate electricity. Geothermal power is the use of heated water and steam from the Earth to run power stations, which turn the steam into electricity. Hydroelectric power is flowing water used to spin turbines which generate electricity (Danielson).The United States should convert to renewable energy sources like solar, geothermal, hydroelectric, wind, and biomass, because it will reduce global warming emissions, provide jobs, and be a more reliable form of energy compared to fossil fuels. Switching to renewable energy will save the Earth by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

In the past couple decades many people have been making the change to renewable energy to power their homes. The most common renewable energy that a single home owner owns it solar panels. Is it possible for all of Vermont to ever be powered by solar and wind energy sources?

1. The term ‘renewable’ in terms of energy sources are those sources that do not run out, and are being restored all the time. For example, ‘The sun, or energy from it never dries up, it is therefore the source of most types of renewable energy’ (Renewable Energy World, 2017)

This paper reports on the microeconomic aspect of obtaining the energy that is present in the environment. A number of factors including the rapidly growing demand for energy to fuel economic development, the need by countries to diversify their energy production into environmentally sustainable supply sources while concurrently taking into careful consideration climate change, energy security and economic factors have all served to greatly contribute towards the current accelerated private and public investment in renewable energy. While numerous countries around the world have been able to design attractive incentive structures that aim at inducing private investment in obtaining the renewable energy that is present in the environment,

The author of this article is Daniel Kammen, a distinguished professor of energy at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the climate advisor to the Obama administration. In this article, the author’s major arguments were, one: greenhouse gas emissions can succeed through an increase in energy efficiency sources alone, two: the world should invest in solar cells, which is also known as photovoltaics, three, the commercialization of renewable energy sources accelerated, since 2000; four, wind power has been growing at the same pace of the solar energy industry, five, researchers are pressing hard for the development of

In the early 2000s Poland had a tight monetary policy, which ultimately curbed inflation as well as made their transition into the European Union easier. As a newly democratic government Poland was able to grow by 1.5 percent during 2009. This was due to the fact that Poland “embraced market-based economic policies, opened its markets to international trade and foreign investments, and privatized many state-owned businesses” (Hill, 2015, p. 57). Large consumer markets came available to Poland when they joined the European Union which allowed them to become a major exporter, and their exports accounted for 40% of gross domestic product. Poland’s government also kept an eye on public debt, not allowing it to grow during the recession, unlike many other countries. Because of this, investor’s confidence grew and during 2008 to 2009 there were no large outflows of funds. In 2009, Poland also benefited from giving cash grants to people who exchanged their old cars for new cars. Poland had many vehicle plants and was selling a lot of cars and parts to Germany, this was done to increase the demand for German vehicle companies. In making all of these changes, Poland was able to avoid the worst effects of the economic crisis that took over a lot of Europe during 2008 – 2009.