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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…
Latest Eurostat data shows that Poland ranks 2nd in the EU for “overall life satisfaction” The latest results from Eurostat show that Poles rate their own life satisfaction much higher than many of their Western European counterparts, tying for 2nd place in the European Union (EU) alongside Finns and Romanians. The data on “quality of…
A further decline in orders and poor data from industry resulted in a deterioration of business sentiment in late 2024. This weakens the willingness to invest and employ new workers. However, this is a deeper problem for the whole of Europe, which is recovering slowly from the post-COVID crisis and must, including Poland, change its…
President Andrzej Duda, an ally of outgoing ruling party – Law and Justice (PiS) – delayed the formation of a new government under Donald Tusk for as long as he could, but the lower house of parliament – Sejm – on December 12 finally elected Tusk prime minister. And the Tusk government has wasted little…
Real estate advisory firm Savills has presented a preliminary summary of 2023 for the commercial property market in Poland and predicts key trends going forward. Geopolitical and economic factors and financial market instability still have a significant impact on the real estate landscape and are expected to continue to shape it in the near future,…
2023 was another great year for Poland and the UK with notable symbolic steps taken that reflect one of Europe’s most important partnerships. Underpinned by strong shared priorities on regional security and supporting Ukraine, Polish-UK relations have been closely developing at one of the most critical and challenging times in Europe’s recent history. There were…
The latest “Polish Startups” report published by the Startup Poland Foundation shows that the revenue situation of startups is currently better than a year earlier. This is the 9th edition of the Polish Startups report, published annually by the Startup Poland Foundation. The results of this year’s accompanying survey confirm that although the revenue situation…
The capital of Lower Silesia is the highest ranked non-capital city in Central and Eastern Europe, taking into account economic indicators, according to a report prepared by Eurostat. Wroclaw is also the highest ranked Central European city in the Globalization and World Cities global ranking, which includes cities from around the world. Among European Union…
In recent years, we have become accustomed to numerous changes in tax law coming into force on the first of January. New legislation was usually passed in the last months of the previous year and took effect after a very short vacatio legis. So short, in fact, that the first weeks of each new year…
Key takeaways from the roundtable discussion between key players in the market, regional authorities and universities, organized by the Boeing Company and Invest in Pomerania and the Pomerania Development Agency. On December 12, 2023, thanks to the efforts of the Boeing Company and Invest in Pomerania, an initiative coordinated by the Pomerania Development Agency, an…
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…
