PricewaterhouseCoopers produced the report “The Economic Impact of a Westinghouse AP1000 Reactor Project in Poland” for Westinghouse and its owners, Brookfield and Cameco. According to the report, six Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear power units will produce more than $30bn of GDP impact and their subsequent operation would generate $9.5bn in GDP annually. In November 2022 Poland…
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) launched the world’s first regional Clean Energy Training Center in Warsaw to help start Poland’s domestic nuclear energy program. The center will serve Poland and broader Central European region as a training hub for countries considering new or expanded nuclear reactor deployment. The first training session was launched at Warsaw Technical University in cooperation with the…
A company owned by Dominika Kulczyk plans to raise up to 3.4 billion zlotys for green investments from the market, with most of the money going to offshore wind farms. The extraordinary general meeting of Polenergia shareholders approved the resolution to increase the authorized capital of the company. This means a green light for the…
New LNG gas carriers “Józef Piłsudski” and “Ignacy Paderewski” owned by ORLEN group will start service in 2025 increasing the group’s LNG fleet to six ships. Construction of both carriers in Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries shipyard is on schedule and expected to end in first half of 2025. Like the group’s previous carriers, “Lech Kaczyński”,…
On 12 December 2024 Orlen launched a new power plant supplied with treated waste water from its chief production facility in Płock. The plant will produce 800 MWh energy for ca. 400 households per year. The construction costed zł 3m ($ 750k) and the energy put in public grid will earn income at zł 0.5m…
PGE Energia Ciepła CHP Plant in Rzeszów is actively participating in implementation of the PGE Group’s strategy. The Rzeszow CHP plant is implementing investment plans to move away from coal use in its generating units. Generating heat from 70% low- and zero-emission fuels by 2030 is a strategic goal of the PGE Group. Two major…
The European Gas Transmission System Operators: Gasgrid Finland (Finland), Elering (Estonia), Conexus Baltic Grid (Latvia), Amber Grid (Lithuania), GAZ-SYSTEM (Poland) and ONTRAS (Germany) participating in the international project for the creation of the Nordic-Baltic Hydrogen Corridor signed a contract for the preparation of pre-feasibility study on the green hydrogen corridor. AFRY Management Consulting, the tender…
In November 2023 PGNiG Upstream Norway from ORLEN Group took-over the extraction company KUFPEC Norway AS, subsidiary of Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company k.s.c.c., thanks to which ORLEN’s gas extraction in the Norwegian Continental Shelf will increase by 1/3 to exceed 4 billion cubic meters per year. The transaction includes shares in 5 fields already…
On 24 November Polish Ministry of Climate and Environment issued a decision-in-principle for construction in Pątnów-Konin of the country’s 2nd large nuclear power plant using two APR1400 reactors delivered by South Korean KHNP. According to the application submitted for the plant in August this year by PGE PAK Energia Jądrowa, the two units will generate…
PGE’s energy storage facilities to be co-financed by the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management. PGE Dystrybucja – a PGE Group unit – has obtained PLN 43 million (EUR 10 million) funding from the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management (NFOŚiGW) for construction of three energy storage facilities: Warta, Jeziorsko and…
PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna is launching more photovoltaic (PV) farms and says it will have PV power plants with a total capacity of about 500 MW in operation or under construction by the end of 2023. In recent weeks, PGE Energia Odnawialna, part of the PGE Group, has launched PV farms in the Mazowieckie, Podkarpackie…
PGE Energia Ciepła is transforming the heating sector by replacing old, inefficient and high-carbon generation sources with modern low- and zero-carbon solutions. The PGE Group has been modernizing its CHP plants in Poland’s largest cities since 2018, commissioning modern low-emission cogeneration sources in Kielce, Bydgoszcz and Zgierz and by the end of 2023, investments in…
