Promet-Plast is a leader in innovations on a global scale. The solutions implemented at the company, primarily those involving capturing and using green energy in the manufacturing processes, are a proof that any business can become based on renewable sources and use them to procure inexpensive, environmentally friendly and safe energy, thus improving the effectiveness of many projects.
Andrzej Jeżewski, the founder of Promet-Plast and leader of the Energetyczny Klaster Oławski EKO energy cluster, is a man with a vision for whom nothing is impossible. The solutions he implements and uses at the company and at the Energetyczny Klaster Oławski EKO, for the majority of entrepreneurs, are distant future. In Oława, they can find out that all this is possible already today. Without such daring businesses getting a step ahead of the reality, energy transition not only on a local but also on a global scale will simply not happen. Promet-Plast is a company worth following as an example, its solutions make good inspirations and its people can be a good source of knowledge.
The investments implemented by Promet-Plast were appreciated by external opinion-making bodies. The Chapter of the Tauron Business Rockets Competition together with “Forbes” and “Newsweek” monthlies have awarded Promet-Plast with the first place and the prize in the Ecotrends category. In 2021, the company has received the Lower Silesian Economic Griffin Award’s Special Distinction in the Environmentally Conscious Company category, while Andrzej Jeżewski received the Green Phoenix A.D. 2021 statuette – an international award for the achievements in implementing eco-energy solutions and technologies.
Promet-Plast is the first plant in Poland manufacturing medical products using zero-carbon technologies. Promet-Plast’s product range includes disposable medical supplies and its customers are the biggest medical wholesale traders supplying hospitals throughout the European Union. The company is also dynamically doing business in the power sector. There are 10 wind turbines located around its plant, with a total installed capacity of over 25 MW. An investment in an AHE (Agro Hydro Energy) system with 6 MW capacity is also under way. It is a single-level lightweight structure with photovoltaic panels and wind turbines mounted on top that can be placed on any type of farmland. This modern system allows self-sufficient, fully organic and Agro 4.0 assumptions-compliant farming of agricultural land and the electricity it produces can be used to power agricultural machines and crop support systems. In turn, a network of interconnected water reservoirs can store enough rainwater to irrigate crops or for hydrogen generation.
Promet-Plast has implemented Poland’s first commercial investment in large-scale battery energy storage facilities. It has installed 4 lithium-ion energy storage modules, each with 1.5 MW power output and 3 MWh capacity. Another energy storage project is in the works, this time hydrogen-based. It consists of the construction of a high-efficiency trigeneration unit for producing electricity (0.9 MWe), heat (1.2 MWt) and cold (0.85 MW). This involves the installation of a cogeneration engine with an absorption chiller, hydrogen electrolyser with 5 MW electrical power requirements and the nominal hydrogen yield of around 1000 m3/h and a hydrogen store with around 35 000 m3 capacity. The produced electricity, heat and cold will be consumed in Promet-Plast. The next energy storage investment project of the company will be a gravity energy storage facility with 5 MW power and 35 MWh capacity.
– I am convinced that the joint efforts by various communities, aimed at the effective use of available technologies, including those involving energy storage, are creating an opportunity for a dynamic development of green energy in Poland. This is why we are engaging in the efforts of the Polish Energy Storage Association (PESA). We are aware that energy storage is a technology that already today can be used by prosumers and by entrepreneurs. The growth of this sector of economy will guarantee new jobs, will provide a push for energy modernisation of rural areas and smaller municipalities, and will provide lower electricity prices and energy supply security at the local and national level. By working together and educating, we will be able to reach a broad group of potential customers for this technology with the knowledge about the energy storage. We are drawing on the knowledge and experience of the experts grouped around the PESA, sharing our competences with other members of the Association – adds Andrzej Jeżewski.