The Polish Chamber of the Marine Wind Energy (PIMEW) has sent an open letter to Prime Minister Donald Tusk, in which he expresses his support for the announced policy of repolonizing the economy, while demanding concrete actions to support the participation of national companies in the offshore wind energy sector. It is the industry's reaction to the government chief's declarations of the request to regain control of strategical areas of the national economy.
In a letter signed by the Management Board of PIMEW, the organization emphasizes that offshore wind energy is present the largest infrastructure task in Poland – projects by 2040 can make up to 500 billion PLN of investment. Despite this scale, the participation of Polish companies in existing orders is, as we read, "insufficient and disproportionate to their real possibilities".
The Chamber, representing nearly 180 national companies, calls for the revision of the existing regulations and the effective implementation of manufacture agreements. According to PIMEW, the current mechanisms of local content, modeled, among others, on the British model, require urgent updates to support the participation of Polish suppliers and manufacturers.
PIMEW calls for strengthening the function of state administration, as well as the appointment of a peculiar Plenipotentiary for the Marine Wind Energy manufacture at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, which will coordinate interministerial activities. The Chamber declares its full readiness to cooperate and submit proposals for changes which, as it points out, can make Poland not only a recipient, but besides an exporter of technology and services in the offshore wind sector.
Puta: If the government is actually reasoning about repolonization, it is time that alternatively of empty declarations, it reached for concrete: Polish companies are ready to act, but they anticipate to be treated as partners alternatively than statists in their own country. (inf)
