Krzysztof Surma at PreCop 2024: Wind farms and energy storage will revolutionize the Polish energy industry

Luc Williams

From the perspective of the Tauron group, the largest energy distributor in Poland, is the energy transformation taking place in Poland an evolution or a revolution?

For us this is a revolution. Please note that the group’s previous strategy included investments in conventional sources, coal units in power plants and heating. The current one, available on our website, states that we invest basically in two areas: distribution and renewable energy sources. While in the previous strategic perspective 35 percent investments went, colloquially speaking, to coal, currently 35 percent investment concerns renewable energy. It’s hard to describe it with any other word than revolution.

You are finishing work on a new strategy…

As a public company, we cannot reveal details at this stage. The key information is that as an energy group, we are the largest distribution group in Poland – 70 percent. our EBIDTA comes from energy distribution, and e.g. only 5% from coal assets. – and we would like to ultimately be a green energy distribution group.

You want it to be 100% in just a dozen or so years. energy reaching your customers came from renewable energy sources.

That’s one thing. It is equally or perhaps more important for us that a significant part of this energy is produced in our own renewable energy sources. I will not talk about numbers today – I hope that we will share them at the end of the year – but I can admit that when creating a new strategy we are certainly looking at wind farms and energy storage facilities with interest.

Why the wind?

The starting point is always the needs and expectations of our customers. Many of them already have photovoltaic installations, so the production of energy from PV by us and them at the same time makes us double…

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