Strategic Research Agenda

We want to be the first-choice supplier, with a comprehensive and flexible offer, while providing the best possible customer service. Thanks to research and development activities, we have a real chance of implementing innovative solutions, business models and offers that respond to the dynamically changing market, technological and social reality.

We are interested in minor improvements to current operations, as well as solutions that offer opportunities for significant technological change. We want to implement innovative and novel solutions to improve network reliability, meet the needs of distribution system users and improve the efficiency of our operations. We will also do this by addressing the changing structure of the energy market, including the rise of civic energy, energy cooperatives and energy clusters.

In the context of this portfolio, we aim to ensure continuity of heat generation and transmission by meeting OT and IT security requirements. In the era of stringent climate policy, we search for new efficient heat sources featuring reduced carbon dioxide emission and ultimately we want to rely on zero-emission solutions. Innovations to increase the openness and reliability of the transmission grid infrastructure and reduce energy and material losses are also significant for us. We are also open to the use of renewable, including distributed, energy sources and increased use of alternative fuels. We will also look for different sources of waste heat and aim to use them in the district heating system. We have in mind the integration of the district heating system with RES. To make this possible, we need to take into account the variability of heat production, compensating for it by feeding it into the grid from energy storage. We also look with hope to the development of solutions using small modular nuclear reactors, as a means of emission-free, fully controllable centralised heat generation, powering future combined heat and power systems

We can clearly observe the trend towards digitisation of the entire RES industry where we also see great potential for growth, supporting the Group's competitive advantage in the domestic market. The continuously increasing share of variable generation sources means that we are constantly searching for new energy storage technologies and improving existing ones. The increasing availability of green energy will also open up a range of opportunities related to green fuel technologies, including, in particular, hydrogen technologies. We expect green hydrogen to play a key role in the power sector, industry and transport of the near future.