Mr. Zdzisław said that in 2023 he joined “Clean Air” program. He replaced the furnace, the so-called Cinderella, he installed photovoltaics on a heat pump. During the meeting, the senior showed Szymon Hołownia the electricity bills he currently receives.
Senior at a meeting with Hołownia about electricity bills: I am naked and cheerful
The man emphasized that he trusted the Polish government, but his “happiness only lasted until” he received the electricity bill. – My legs were shaking, the ground was sinking. I have to pay for my electricity in thousands of zlotys. I am naked and cheerful – he said, among other things. He added that he did everything “according to plan” to receive the subsidy. He paid PLN 50,000 for installing photovoltaics. PLN, and he received the subsidy only for a heat pump. – I put my entire life savings into it so that I could have a better life and clean air. Not only for myself, but for all of us, I did the right thing and the stupid thing. And now I suffer the consequences. I'm ruined. My pension… it's as if I didn't have it for half a year. Everything is in the bills – added the senior and showed the electricity fee for almost PLN 2,000. zloty. – I got sinus disease and my wife got neurosis. How can you live with this? Is this a normal democratic state? I have experienced various systems and governments, but I have never experienced such cruelty and human harm as in this country. In the 1980s, I was an oppositionist and now I have turned the whip on myself, the man complained.
Szymon Hołownia: Idiocy crying to heaven for vengeance
Szymon Hołownia admitted that he is not in a similar situation to Mr. Zdzisław, but he “got” photovoltaics early, so he “got into the old rules” in which they “steal” less from him. According to him, the new rules are a “complete aberration”. – I remember when the PiS minister came out and said: because people now treat state networks as private energy storage. Then build some warehouses. It was idiocy crying to heaven for vengeance. They spent several dozen billion zlotys a year that should have gone into network investments. They have failed those who are carrying out the green transformation on their own shoulders, said the Speaker of the Sejm. – I also pay extra for this business because I thought my bills would be zero – he added. Szymon Hołownia said, turning to Mr. Zdzisław, that the state treated him in a “radically unfair” way.
The politician reminded about the prosumer act. – It has been passed by the government and I hope to see it in the Sejm in a week or two. She puts things back on their feet. The only question is what will happen to people like you who are already in such a situation, he added. Szymon Hołownia asked the senior to give him the bills and documents. – We will ask the Ministry of Climate and Environment what a person who trusted the state, contributed several dozen thousand to produce the green electricity that the country needs, what such a person should do and what program he should use – said the leader of Poland 2050. Let us remind you that in mid-October, the government adopted a draft amendment to the Act on Renewable Energy Sources (RES). The changes concern, among others: prosumers settling in the net-billing system.