{"id":60820,"date":"2026-07-24T22:04:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T22:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/60820\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T22:04:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T22:04:53","slug":"polish-consumers-back-energy-transition-but-not-at-any-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/60820\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish consumers back energy transition, but not at any cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Polish <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainabilityonline.net\/tag\/consumer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">consumers<\/a> by and large support the energy transition, but it needs to be affordable, according to a new survey by the E.ON Foundation, conducted alongside the Civey Institute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the survey found, close to three quarters (72%) of Polish respondents believe the energy transition will support the country\u2019s long-term prosperity, while more than three fifths (63%) view the EU target of achieving climate neutrality by 2050 positively. Support for withdrawing from international climate agreements has fallen to 46%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the survey noted, in <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainabilityonline.net\/tag\/poland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">Poland<\/a>, there has been a \u2018clear shift\u2019 from general acceptance of the need for the <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainabilityonline.net\/tag\/energy-transition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">energy transition<\/a>, to a more pragmatic assessment of costs and benefits.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Conditional energy transition\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe survey results show that Poland is currently undergoing a conditional <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainabilityonline.net\/tag\/energy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">energy<\/a> transition,\u201d commented Andrzej Modzelewski, CEO of E.ON Polska and the E.ON Foundation in Poland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPoles do not reject it, but expect it to be conducted responsibly. It must be understood by society not as a burden, but as an investment in security and cost predictability, system resilience, and greater energy independence. These factors will determine the pace and scale of change in the coming years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other findings from the study include that more than seven in ten (72%) Poles believe that they can still individually contribute to climate protection, however an element of \u2018change fatigue\u2019 is also evident, with the willingness to engage in activities that require greater effort \u2013\u00a0or additional costs \u2013\u00a0decreasing.<\/p>\n<p>European view<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At a European level, some 75% of respondents say that they are \u2018concerned\u2019 about the impact of climate change on future generations, while 82% expect governments to take more decisive action in the energy transition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, here too, support for climate measures is increasingly conditional on delivering affordable energy and maintaining security of supply.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are observing growing skepticism towards simplistic promises in climate policy,\u201d added Stephan Muschick, president of the E.ON Foundation in Germany. \u201cAt the same time, emotional awareness of the challenges of climate change is growing, driven primarily by concern for future generations. However, in everyday life, we see a clear weariness with the necessity of making sacrifices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPeople expect more than ever that solutions will be socially just and financially predictable, and that politicians will provide a stable framework for action.\u201d Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/eon.pl\/dla-mediow\/aktualnosci\/od-deklaracji-do-kalkulacji\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Polish consumers by and large support the energy transition, but it needs to be affordable, according to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21068],"tags":[21104,21103,1383],"class_list":["post-60820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-e-on","tag-e-on","tag-e-on-se","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}