Development prospects
PGNiG TERMIKA will proceed with its strategic projects and will actively seek acquisition opportunities in the power and heating area. The company intends to markedly scale up the volume of electricity sales by implementing projects aimed at building new, cost-effective generation capacities and upgrading existing sources using low-carbon technologies.
In 2022, PGNiG TERMIKA will continue work on several projects, including the construction of a peak-load boiler house at the Żerań CHP plant (phase 2), preparations for the construction of a 75 MWe multi-fuel unit and preparations for the construction of a CCGT unit at the Siekierki CHP plant.
Capital expenditure planned for 2022 in the area of environmental initiatives will cover adaptation of the Kawęczyn heat plant to the BAT conclusions, upgrade of the Pruszków CHP plant, upgrade of absorbers 1 and 2 at the Siekierki CHP plant, a programme to reduce noise generated by the plants and upgrade of the sanitary sewage system.
PGNiG TERMIKA will pursue an investment programme, including upgrades to its existing generation assets, aimed at building new high-efficiency and cost-effective generation capacity using low- and zero-emission technologies adapted to increasingly stringent environmental requirements. Steps will be taken to expand the company’s business and R&D&I projects focusing on the use of hydrogen in the energy sector, the construction of heat and electricity batteries, increased use of renewable energy sources in power generation as well as the use of Power-to-Heat technologies (electrode boilers, heat pumps).
In the coming years, PGNiG TERMIKA also intends to continue the monitoring of acquisition opportunities among heat distribution and heat and electricity generation businesses, and to improve its business efficiency through the use of modern production and assets management methods.
The objectives of PGNiG TERMIKA EP in 2022 include the continuation and completion of the project to secure heat supplies for the town of Rybnik and the project to integrate the heating systems of the Zofiówka CHP plant and the Pniówek CHP plant, as well as efforts to intensify acquisition of new customers for central heating, domestic hot water, and cold. The company is also taking steps to significantly expand the heat market to include year-round sales of domestic hot water, particularly in the towns of Kuźnia Raciborska, Jastrzębie-Zdrój, Rybnik and Żory. In the long term, the company recognises the potential of thermal waste conversion and is therefore carrying out siting, technological and economic analyses (for the construction of thermal waste conversion facilities in Racibórz and RDF co-incineration in a CFB boiler).
Concurrently, the company is taking steps to reduce emissions from individual generation sources through: exiting the ETS by the Suszec and Moszczenica CHP plants, conversion to biomass or co-incineration of coal and biomass in Żory, Wodzisław and Zofiówka CHP plants, as well as to make use of existing RES installations, i.e. PV systems in Jastrzębie-Zdrój, Racibórz and Żory (completed in 2021), and planned to be completed in the coming years (in Moszczenica).
The key challenges to the PGNiG TERMIKA Group’s strategic plans include:
- implementing an investment plan that will ensure compliance of generation assets with current and future environmental requirements;
- increasing the share of zero and low carbon fuels in the heat and electricity generation mix in order to reduce GHG emissions;
increasing electricity sales volume by implementing investment projects aimed at building new, cost-effective generation capacities and upgrading the existing sources with the use of low- and zero-emission technologies.
