A subsidiary of state-owned PGE, the country’s biggest power producer, has reached an agreement with trade unions on the closure of its Dolna Odra coal power plant, offering workers severance payments of up to 400,000 zloty (€94,450) each. The shutdown of the facility forms part of PGE’s plans to phase out coal assets and replace them with lower-emission gas. The deal with workers, worth 250 million zloty (€59 million) in total, was described by PGE as a “record-breaking support package” and “groundbreaking in the Polish energy sector”.
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