Newsom Signs Climate Partnership MOU With Poland in Warsaw on Clean Energy, Grid Modernization and Wildfire Resilience
California Governor Gavin Newsom traveled to Poland after his engagements at the United Nations climate summit COP31, and on November 14 his office announced that he had signed a memorandum of understanding in Warsaw with Poland's Ministry of Climate and Environment to launch a new climate partnership on clean energy, pollution reduction and climate resilience.
Newsom signed the MOU on Friday with Krzysztof Bolesta, Poland's Secretary of State for Climate and Environment, at the ministry's headquarters in Warsaw. The partnership covers clean energy technology and energy systems including renewables, grid modernization, energy storage and energy efficiency; reductions in greenhouse gas emissions including short-lived pollutants such as methane; climate adaptation including extreme heat resilience, extreme weather preparation and wildfire prevention and management; and carbon removal and nature-based solutions.
"Energy security, economic strength, and a livable climate are not competing goals. They are one mission, and no nation or state can achieve it alone," Newsom said. "California and Poland come from different histories but share the same responsibility: to protect our people, power our economies, and leave future generations a safer world. This partnership puts that responsibility to work."
The Governor's Office said Poland is expanding renewable energy, modernizing its grid and reducing reliance on coal, while California has built one of the world's largest clean energy systems while growing its economy. California's battery storage fleet has grown from less than 700 megawatts in 2019 to about 23,000 megawatts today, the state is a major market for electric transit buses and zero-emission trucks, and it leads the nation in critical minerals production, including the Lithium Valley area near the Salton Sea.
In Warsaw, Newsom met leaders of Impact Clean Power Technology, Poland's leading maker of lithium-ion battery systems, which has delivered more than 20,000 battery systems powering more than 3,000 electric buses and in 2024 opened GigafactoryX, a plant producing 1.2 gigawatt-hours of batteries a year. He also met executives of CD Projekt, Poland's largest video game developer, to explore deeper creative and economic ties.
At the America-Ukraine Clean Energy Forum in Warsaw, Newsom reaffirmed California's long partnership with Ukraine, including more than 30 years of cooperation between the California National Guard and Ukraine and a recently established sister-state relationship with Lviv Oblast. He also laid a wreath at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes and visited the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, signing its commemorative book.
The partnership follows earlier engagement: Newsom met Poland's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski in July, and in September the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development led a California company delegation to MSPO, Eastern Europe's largest defense and security trade show.
Source: Office of the Governor of California
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