EU regulations and dynamics of changes in logistics system architecture in power engineering

Abstract

The new EU energy policy is commonly associated with climate-energy package aiming at lowering emission and use of primary energy as well as increased share of renewable energy sources. In practice the accepted policy comprises a much more complex spectrum of issues and its realization requires a number of new legal regulations. Their application will result in diverse, often significant in scale and quality changes in functioning of the economy especially in the area of power engineering and environmental protection. One of the vital elements of power industry is its logistical system. The scope of the presented work was the dynamics of the changes in the architecture of the power engineering logistic system which results from applying the new regulations of new power engineering policy. New legal regulations were presented that were the most significant for functioning of the logistic system in power engineering. The logistic system architecture in Polish power engineering was characterized and analyzed. The most important tendencies of its changes were outlined as well as their economic and social consequences.