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PGE Group, Poland’s largest electricity and heat producer, has unveiled its ambitious new strategy for 2035. The strategy outlines an estimated €55 billion in investments aimed at transforming Poland’s energy landscape. It prioritizes energy grids, new flexible gas power plants, renewable energy sources and advanced energy storage systems, all while integrating modern heating solutions.
Speaking about natural gas, there is a distinction between power and combined power and heat generation. Natural gas will be needed to decarbonize our district heating systems — here we have no alternatives to deliver heat at the required temperature, which is approximately 130 degrees Celsius. And yet in power system gas-fired capacity is also needed. According to the European Resource Adequacy Assessment, Europe will need an additional 50 GW in gas-fired capacity to ensure its energy security. Yet, here again, the district heating can contribute to the power system – in Poland almost 20 percent of electricity comes from combined heat and power.
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