Polish Spa Town Switches to Renewables to Improve Air
A Polish spa town is turning to renewable energy to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in the region and clean up the air. Ladek-Zdroj became the first community in Poland to achieve self-sustainability after Mayor Roman Kaczmarczyk pushed for a solar farm project that allowed the community to turn away from fossil fuels such as coal. Mayor Kaczmarczyk assumed office in 2014 and outlined a project to fill a field on the town’s edges with solar panels rather than wheat. Unfortunately, solar and renewable energy as a whole was still a wildly untapped sector a decade ago, and Kaczmarczyk’s plan seemed destined…
