INTEGRATED ESG
REPORT 2020

Energy efficiency

Non-financial indicators:

In 2020, the Energy Efficiency Improvement Programme for the PGNiG Group (the “Programme”, PPEE) was launched to coordinate efforts aimed at achieving efficiency gains in the area of energy management at the PGNiG Group.

  • CCE-6/C2
  • CCE-3/C2

The first projects launched under the Programme included: ‘Dębno 4.0’ to implement a system for utilities monitoring and managing at the Dębno oil and gas production facility and ‘Building Management Platform’ (“BMP”), designed to prepare, and then implement the concept of a platform for monitoring and systemic control of energy management at the Company’s Head Office facilities.

In 2020, PGNiG obtained a certificate confirming the implementation of an Energy Management System (the “Energy Management System”, “EMS”) based on the ISO 50001:2011 standard. The Energy Management System documentation was updated to meet the requirements of the ISO 50001:2018 standard and the Company was prepared for an audit enabling transition to compliance with the new standard in 2021.

In 2020, the Company submitted further applications for white certificates to the President of the Energy Regulatory Office (URE) in connection with three tasks (Replacement of a chiller at the Przemyśl Wschód gas production facility, Energy recovery at the compressor station of the Kościan-Brońsko gas production facility and a task under the Dębno 4.0 project). As at the end of 2020, nine applications were pending before the President of URE, their combined value (average annual final energy savings) amounting to 60,164.939 toe.

The initiatives implemented to the date should be considered organisational solutions. For example, a free-cooling solution was used to replace the chiller at the Przemyśl Wschód gas production facility. The recovery of energy at the Kościan-Brońsko gas production facility consists in replacing heat generated at the local gas boiler house with heat recovered from the exhaust gas emitted by the newly built piston compressor system. Dębno 4.0 is a solution to measure technological processes and establish an energy management system at the Dębno oil and gas production facility, but the project is in the initial phase of implementation. The BMP project is in the conceptual phase, and details of the specific solutions will be defined in 2021.

It is impossible to accurately determine savings for these organisational solutions because of too short operating time (early execution phase) or characteristics (the Energy Management System).

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