CEO & Co-founder of Instrat. Expert in areas of public policy, energy & climate policy, power market modelling, energy and coal mining sectors, and open data. Co-author of research and strategic documents on just transition in coal regions, data governance, public finance and taxation systems.
He studied at SGH Warsaw School of Economics in Poland (Finance and Accounting), at University of Cologne in Germany and St. Gallen University in Switzerland (Economics). He is currently part of the Executive Master in Public Administration (EMPA) at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in UK.
Since November 2023 affiliated as a Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) with the Just Transition Finance Lab, an initiative established by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment (GRI).
Poland’s steel industry is on a slippery slope amid still high energy prices, reliance on coal and unclear climate and trade policy signals. Deprivatisation, closures
The government of Mateusz Morawiecki has planned to bail out coal mining companies with 1.5 billion EUR (7 billion PLN) at the last hurdle, even
Key findings
Methane is the second most harmful greenhouse gas after CO2. Its emissions from Polish hard coal mines are a significant contributor to the scale of
Instrat published a study in mid-2021 which shows that Poland can easily unlock the potential of onshore energy. Liberalizing the damaging 10H rule according to
Energy regulators should look into
windfall profits of coal utilities
EU Methane Legislation and Poland’s coal mining industry
On 27th September 2021 Michał Hetmański (President of the Board at Instrat) participated in the UNECE Workshop: Methane in the Context of the Transition of
Report by Instrat for WWF Poland: Just transition in Eastern Wielkopolska: diagnosis & guidelines
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