INVEST PARK THE WAŁBRZYCH SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONE “INVEST-PARK” MAGAZINE ISSN 2353-7523 IPIJune 2015 • No. 2/7 INFO JERZY WITOLD PIETREWICZ, UNDERSECRETARY OF STATE AT THE MINISTRY OF ECONOMY AN ENERGY MIX OUT OF CONCERN FOR COSTS AND SAFETY 10–11 SOLGAZ FROM ŚWIDNICA SCIENCE AND BUSINESS ROBERT SMIRNOW, NZP BIELAWA SMALL POLISH INVENTIONS GREEN A MODEL COMPANY THAT MAKE CARS ECO-FRIENDLY – GREAT IDEAS THE WORLD CHANGE NOW! TOWN 14–15 16–1720–21 22–25 IN THIS ISSUE Contents 4–5 Barbara Kaśnikowska: The green game 6–7 WHAT’S GOING ON IN ECONOMY? CALENDAR 10–11 April–June 2015 Dear Readers, 8–9 A MINISTER’S PERSPECTIVE – Ilona Antoniszyn-Klik, Deputy Minister of Economy: When in 1854 Ignacy Łukasiewicz A matter of necessity, not choice opened the first oil mine in Bóbrka near 8–9 Law: Work permits easier to obtain Krosno, he had little idea that he had just transformed the face of the Earth 10–11 Conversation with Jerzy Witold and initiated an industry that is worth 4–5 Pietrewicz, Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Economy hundreds of billions of dollars today. We talk An energy mix out of concern about our compatriots’ successes too rarely, for costs and safety and for this reason this is precisely what we are 12–13 “Join the Best”, going to do in the issue that you are holding in or News from firms in the zone your hands. 14–15 SOLGAZ from Świdnica Small company – great ideas ur zone participates in global trends develo- 14–16 16–17 Polish inventions ping new technologies: “gas under glass”, that make the world change the intelligent ventilation hood, or the superli- 12–13 18–19 In Investment-reinvestment Oght electric car made at the legendary Nysa New companies in the WSEZ plant – these are but a few examples of ideas that are 20–21 ROBERT SMIRNOW, Nysa Zakład put into effect by entrepreneurs functioning in the Wał- Pojazdów: Green cars now! 16–17 22–25 BIELAWA: 20–21 A model eco-friendly town 26–27 How to determine a company’s size All about that status 28–29 Center for Energy Technologies in Świdnica: OVERVIEW OF Save energy and earn money 30–31 What’s new in the zone Overview of events EVENTS AND 22–25 DEADLINES / Half-year summary < with self-government Don’t members 30–31 miss! The IPI magazine available Entrepreneurs functioning on the iPad! in the WSEZ invested more < / / than 19 billion zlotys, < and companies in the zone wersja polska employ almost 41 thousand english version people – the first six months of 2015 were summarized during the fifth Business Breakfast of the WSEZ Self-government Members. The next meeting, summarizing the whole year 2015, is scheduled for December. We would already like to invite local self-government members from the WSEZ subzones to participate in it. Business Mixer at the WSEZ The first edition of “INVEST-PARK” Business Mixer will be held in Wrocław in November. It will be a wonderful opportunity to establish business contacts and present your company. The participants will include both the WSEZ investors and representatives of firms from outside the zone. We will provide more details in the next issue of “IPI”. Contact: [email protected] 2 INVEST-PARK INFO 2/7/2015 @ [email protected] FROM THE EDITOR brzych SEZ. In this issue, we also describe In the context of energy security, pas- this reason, it is worth reading Deputy Mini- some past inventions that positively influ- sing the bill on renewable energy sources ster of Economy ILONA ANTONISZYN- enced the progress of humanity. in May this year was extremely important. KLIK’S column (pp. 6–7) and following the Today’s world would not be what it is By 2050, as much as a third of all electri- website www.funduszeeuropejskie.gov.pl without the greatest of all inventions – cal energy in Poland will be produced from in order to choose the best solution for electricity. Advances in technology have renewables. Green energy is the subject of your company. led to total dependence of the economy this issue’s column by BARBARA KAŚNI- As summer is approaching, I wish all on energy, and in Poland energy is mostly KOWSKA, President of the WSEZ the readers of IPI great holidays, lots of generated from burning hard bituminous “INVEST-PARK” (pp. 4–5). sun and pleasant time to relax! coal and lignite. Our country is thus to Although energy generated from rene- MO NI KA KO RZE WICZ, a large degree dependent on non-rene- wables is increasingly cheaper, it is still Managing Editor wable sources of energy that negatively more expensive than from conventional affect the natural environment. However, sources, and thus renewable energy sour- Deputy Minister of Economy JERZY PIE- ces need support in order to ensure tech- The author has graduated in Journalism, TREWICZ reassures us that there is no nological development. The EU’s 2014– and she has also finished postgraduate studies threat of chaos in energy supplies in 2020 financial framework offers many at the Academy of National Defense in Warsaw. Poland. You can read more about the opportunities for obtaining funds for deve- She has worked in local and central government main changes in Poland’s energy policy loping renewable sources, increasing ener- institutions. She is a specialist at the WSEZ “INVEST-PARK” Department of Communication. on pages 10–11. gy efficiency and cutting emissions. For INVEST-PARK INFO (IPI) Economic quarterly of the Wałbrzych Special Economic Zone Humanity is called to recognize the need for changes of lifestyle, “INVEST-PARK” EDITORIAL TEAM: production and consumption in order to combat this warming Managing Editor or at least the human causes which produce or aggravate it. 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It will be the second and a bulk-purchase group for buying electrical energy CONTACT WITH THE PUBLISHER: last chance to apply for funds. The rules and gas. All entrepreneurs, not only those from the e-mail: [email protected] and specimen documents can be found on: zone, as well as self-governments are welcome to tel.: +48 74 664 91 64 join the group. This can lead to significant savings on www.invest-park.com.pl/usługi energy. Please send your queries to: dodatkowe/sponsoring [email protected] JUNE 2015 3 FEATURED ARTICLE GAME BARBARA KAŚNIKOWSKA, PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF THE WSEZ “INVEST-PARK” Experts differ in their predictions concerning electrical energy consumption in Poland in the years to come. The 2014 governmental forecast predicted a considerable increase in energy use by 2030. Most recent reports describe only a slight growth by 2020, after which demand will level off. Meanwhile, last year’s report prepared by Deloitte Business Consulting and DNP Bank concluded that Poland’s demand for energy will peak in 2015 and then begin to fall. ow is this surprising trend possible? We see dly surprising since the energetic potential that our economy is developing, more and of the Sun seems limitless. Within six more firms are investing and expanding their months the Earth receives as much solar production, which should lead to increased energy as we could produce from all the demand for energy. Special economic zones known reserves of coal, oil, gas and uranium combi- are well aware of this – they act as interme- ned. If we were able to use all this energy, one minute Hdiaries between utilities providers and the entrepre- (!) would be enough to produce enough power for the neurs who situate their facilities within the zones. whole world. The crux of the matter is how to do it. For- Well, economic activity and demand for electrical tunately, in the last few years we have made enormous energy in companies are indeed on the rise, but so is progress in this area.