Can Decarbonisation and Capacity Market Go Together? The Case Study of Poland

In recent years, numerous countries have introduced or considered capacity markets as remuneration mechanisms for long-term adequacy. Since adequacy is frequently linked with thermal power generation, there an ongoing debate to whether this instrument could impact decarbonisation. context, the paper presents a quantitative assessment of consequences introducing market on decarbonisation pathways. The Polish system taken example due its heavy dependence fossil fuels. To end, computable model developed and applied study two research scenarios. first scenario without market, while latter considers in place. analysis shows that introduction delays has negative carbon neutrality. Even though coal-fired units are phased out, they mainly replaced by natural gas. method within can be where being discussed, fuels continue play dominant role.