Technology park will be built in Stalowa Wola. On 21 September representatives of TAURON Polska Energia S.A. and Stalowa Wola Town Hall signed a letter of intent in this matter. TAURON hopes to increase the volume of process steam supplied to the technology park from the new steam and gas-fired unit.
The park will prepare an investment site for industrial purposes (utility infrastructure, transport routes, utilities connection) and then will offer it to potential investors who would build their new plants there. The investment area will be dedicated, in the first place, to companies from high energy and process steam consumption industries such as construction chemicals, metal casting and processing, fruit and vegetables processing, plastic processing and construction materials.
“This enterprise is a part of the steam and gas-fired unit construction project that is currently executed on the power plant premises. Process steam, which will be generated by the new built unit apart from electricity, will be used by companies operating within the technology park. This means higher sales, improved efficiency of the unit and higher sales of “red” certificates from cogeneration”, said Dariusz Lubera, President of the Management Board at TAURON Polska Energia.
400 MWe and 240 MWt state of the art steam and gas-fired unit at Stalowa Wola will be the largest project of the kind in Poland. The investment is scheduled to be completed at the end of 2014. Construction permit was obtained in July this year. The steam and gas-fired unit will generate electricity in highly efficient cogeneration as well as heat in the form of water for municipal purposes and process steam for the nearby industrial plants.
Under the joint project with the Town Hall, TAURON will provide, for the purpose of the park development, the Jelnia area (which is currently used for storage of furnace waste from Elektrownia Stalowa Wola) together with adjacent premises that belong to TAURON Wytwarzanie, a company from the TAURON Group. TAURON will also commission legal and economic analyses of the investment and establish a company to manage the park.
The Town Hall will include the planned park in land use map, design execution of infrastructure investments in the subject area – access roads of adequate parameters as well as water supply and sewage systems.
The investment will have a positive impact on the town and regional development. The new industrial plants that will be developed as part of the park will stimulate the economic growth and reduce unemployment in the region.
The construction of the Stalowa Wola Technology Park will be executed in stages. The first stage includes adaptation of a total of 47.9 hectares of land. Then, in subsequent stages, the park will be systematically enlarged. Its target area may reach 214 hectares.
