and in place by 2015. The plant commercial operations scheduled to begin by 31 December 2022. The total costs of the project was to be EUR 6 billion. Poland was guaranteed to have 1,200 MWe from the power plant and has upgraded transmission capacity between Lithuania and Poland. After the nuclear project was abandoned, Lithuania instead became an importer of electricity from Poland. In a public opinion poll, 60% of the population supported construction of a nuclear power plant in Poland to reduce its dependence on foreign sources of energy. Additionally, 48% supported construction of a nuclear power plant in their neighborhood, citing local benefits that include lower energy costs. The popular Baltic Sea resort Mielno was one of three sites selected, however in February 2012, residents voted overwhelmingly against the plan. Some 94 percent of the 2,389 people who took part in a referendum opposed the plant and only 5 percent supported it. In 2014, under the government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Poland's Nuclear Power Program was adopted. Through the early 2020s the Polish Nuclear Power Program was managed by the group EJ1 of the state-owned utility PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna. 2020 to current Growing environmental, climate change, and economic concerns among the Polish public, policymakers, and businesses continues to drive Polish interest in nuclear power in the 2020s. The most significant efforts are those of the state-owned nuclear development company Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe regarding large light water reactors in the 1000MWe to 1250MWe range and those of private industrial companies pursuing small modular reactors for deployment at industrial sites. In 2021 Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, jointly with prime ministers of Hungary, France, Czech Republic, Romania, Slovak Republic and Slovenia, signed an open letter to European Commission calling for recognition of role of nuclear power as the only non-intermittent low-carbon energy source currently available at industrial scale in Europe. In April 2021 Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) published a comprehensive report on perspectives of decarbonization of energy sector, calling for increased use of "any low-carbon energy sources", including renewable energy and nuclear power. Minister of energy Michał Kurtyka declared it's not realistic to look at low-carbon energy sector without nuclear power. A November 2021 poll indicated 74% in favor of building nuclear power plants in Poland in general, 58% supporting their location in their neighborhood and 39% opposing the latter. 82% believe nuclear power plants contribute to