Polish residents worried over energy price hike ahead of winter

STORY: Polish residents worried over energy price hike ahead of winter DATELINE: Sept. 6, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:16 LOCATION: Warsaw CATEGORY: ECONOMY/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the views in Poland 2. STANDUP (English): CHEN CHEN, Xinhua correspondent in Warsaw 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): MICHAL PASIEKA, Warsaw resident 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): GUO XUEWEI, Restaurant owner in Gdansk 5. SOUNDBITE 3 (Polish): ROBERT TOMASZEWSKI, Energy market analyst of "Polityka Insight" STORYLINE: Residents in Poland are worried over drastically rising energy prices ahead of the winter as the country is facing an energy crisis. Wholesale energy prices remain under pressure from high gas and coal prices. Electricity prices offered by the state-owned company PGNiG are to increase by over 300 percent in the fall compared to January last year. High energy prices have a direct impact on the public, particularly on business owners amid the inflation, which hovers at the highest level since March 1997. STANDUP (English): CHEN