Barbara Adamska becomes a member of the Hydrogen Economy Coordinating Council

Barbara Adamska was appointed a member of the Hydrogen Economy Coordinating Council. The appointment letter was signed by the Minister of Climate and Environment – Anna Moskwa. The first meeting of the Coordination Council, which took place on March 22 this year, was opened by Deputy Minister Ireneusz Zyska.

The Coordinating Council was established to provide conditions for proper and effective collaboration and to ensure an effective framework for communication, management, progress monitoring and decision making. Its duties include, in particular, the management, coordination and monitoring of the activities resulting from the Agreement, establishment of working groups that ensure collaboration between the parties regarding strategic objectives, the development of annual reports on the implementation of the provisions of the Agreement. The Coordinating Council consists of at least 12 members, meeting the requirement to represent each of the groups of entities being the parties to the Agreement.

The Sectoral Agreement for the Development of the Hydrogen Economy in Poland concluded in Warsaw on the 14th of October 2021, reflects the will of the public administration at the central and local government levels, business and scientific communities as well as the business environment entities, concerning the commencement of collaboration on the development and expansion of the hydrogen economy in Poland. Hydrogen produced with low-carbon technologies will play an important role in the quest for climate neutrality, in reducing the emissions produced by the economy and in boosting the competitiveness of the Polish entrepreneurs. As the process of building the hydrogen economy will be progressing, the importance, extent of applications and decrease of the cost of hydrogen technologies will also take place. The “Hydrogen Strategy for a Climate-Neutral Europe” adopted by the European Commission in 2020, confirms the desire to increase the share of hydrogen in the EU’s energy mix from the present 2% to 14% by 2050. The demand for low-emission hydrogen will result in an increase in the share of renewable energy sources in the generation of electricity used for producing hydrogen. With these assumptions in place, the presence of the representatives of the energy storage communities in the work on the Polish hydrogen economy is fully reasonable. In fact, energy storage facilities are an indispensable element of building an innovative, low-carbon power system of Poland – says Barbara Adamska, CEO of the Polish Energy Storage Association.