The DISE Energy Congress is an international energy industry event that summarises the achievements of the Polish energy sector in the past year and discusses and analyses the most important challenges facing the industry.

The debate was moderated by the Editor-in-Chief of the BiznesAlert.pl website Wojciech Jakóbik; other participants were PSG Management Board Member Jakub Kowalski, Vice President for Operations of the Management Board of PGNiG Robert Perkowski, the President of the Management Board of the Polish Power Exchange Piotr Zawistowski, the President of Instytut Jagielloński Marcin Roszkowski, the President of Grupa Azoty Zakłady Azotowe Kędzierzyn Filip Grzegorczyk, legal advisor and expert of the Lower Silesian Institute for Energy Studies DISE Kamila Tarnacka and Attorney-at-Law Małgorzata Banasik.

The panel discussed issues related to the implementation of the great energy transition in the current geopolitical environment, which resulted in a significant increase in gas prices.

“Since the outbreak of the war, we have seen a declining interest in building investments among individual customers and the fact that they are looking for other sources of energy than connecting to the gas grid only. On the other hand, we are noticing increased interest in connecting professional entities to our networks”, said the Member of the Management Board for Operations of Polska Spółka Gazownictwa.

Before the war, we had already done a survey of this market, then repeated it in the middle of the year. Comparing the two surveys, we have gained nearly 150 new entities that want to connect to the gas grid in the future. All because natural gas is the only way for them to achieve climate neutrality.

Jakub Kowalski, Member of the Management Board for Operations of Polska Spółka Gazownictwa

Connecting many professional entities is a huge financial challenge for Polska Spółka Gazownictwa. All the more so given that all entities would like to connect to gas supplies within the next three years.