When we decided to erect a cutting-edge power block in the Southern Poland Power Company Plc. Lagisza Power Plant there were unfavourable voices heard. Poland has got such a surfeit of installed power and so good a power industry that there is no point in carrying out such costly investments. Nonetheless, back then we did know that in several years everybody would radically change their opinion.

We knew that what we were going to build in Lagisza needed to be thoroughly modern, ahead of all the trends present in Poland. Today, when the new block is in the start-up stage, we are planning further investments applying new technologies. Is this the right way? The International Energy Agency (IEA), Poland became the 28th member of which on September 25th 2008, turned to the Southern Poland Power Company with a request for the company’s consent to publish data concerning our new power block in Lagisza for the G8 leaders.

The aforementioned publication is to present data on the case studies concerning the commissioning of power plants characterized by highest production efficiency and lowest greenhouse gases emission. Such power plants are regarded as examples to follow. Will our other investments share the same future, like for example the new power block in the Bielsko-Biala Heat and Power Plant 1 equipped with the heat accumulator or the planned investment in Kedzierzyn Kozle where the new power block will make use of the poligeneration effects i.e. hard coal gasification as required both by our power plant and simultaneously by the Nitrogen Works?

The answer seems to be: yes. Building a state-of-the-art, market company we simply must reach for what is the most advanced and most modern. Such technologies will enable us to produce energy and heat relatively cheaply assuring accordance with the ecological norms.

Summing up, they will make our company a competitive one on the power market.

Jan Kurp