The financing will be used to expand renewable energy connections and introduce smart grid technology.

The financing will be used to expand renewable energy connections and introduce smart grid technology.
Orlen is Poland’s largest company, and also one of the biggest in Europe.
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“There is no consent for the destruction of the authority of Saint John Paul II,” said the CEO of state oil giant Orlen.
The ship, named Lech Kaczyński, brought 70,000 tonnes of LNG – enough to cover the average weekly natural gas consumption of all households in Poland.
Wojciech Jakóbik
Poland has not abandoned Russian oil entirely, as it said it would, but instead the Kremlin has turned the taps off itself.
Russia last month halted oil exports to Poland one day after Poland became the first country to donate modern Leopard tanks to Ukraine.
Its ethics council is concerned at Orlen’s ownership of dozens of local media outlets.
Poland’s LNG terminal received 58 shipments carrying 4.4 million tonnes, figures that were 66% and 57% higher than a year earlier respectively.
Wrocław’s public transport authority and opposition parties have called for an investigation into the “thieving monopoly” of Orlen.
“I will not pity the energy companies,” said Mateusz Morawiecki.
Turbines from the plant will supply Poland’s first offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea.
Orlen and the Polish government want to turn the new merged energy group into a “global multienergy syndicate”.
The plant will have a capacity of 563 MW, and is expected to later run entirely on hydrogen.
The announcement comes as the European Commission yesterday unveiled plans to ban the import of Russian oil.