Battery energy storage has dominated Poland’s capacity market auctions – with 165 MW awarded two years ago for 2027, 1,734 MW for 2028, and now 2,498 MW for 2029 – while new gas units fell from 970 MW two years ago, to 0 MW for 2028 and just 91 MW for 2029. The capacity market still rewards existing coal and gas on a large scale, but the government is concerned about the lack of new gas plants, and is now looking to amend the country’s Capacity Market Act. This will introduce supplementary capacity auctions to shore up the position of gas plants – even after previously reducing the ‘corrective availability factor’ (korekcyjny współczynnik dyspozycyjności or KWD) from 95% to 61.3%…