The scope of PIGEOR activities are determined first of all by the Articles of Association. The Chamber was founded to support and represent its member companies. For that reason all carries out its the activities and actions primarily for the benefit of its members.

General activities includes:

Monitoring legal and administrative regulations regarding the renewable power industry (RES) at the national and community level and worldwide
Initiating legislative changes which are favourable for the sector and conducting consultations about adopted legal acts and strategic documents in the field of power industry
Promoting the Polish renewable energy market
Promoting PIGEO on the domestic and international market as an umbrella organisation for the most active and reliable enterprises of the market in Poland
Conducting educational activities directed at all the participants of the renewable power industry market
Preparing expert opinions and studies on the RES market in Poland, also for international projects

Detailed consulting and lobbying activities:

1. Systemic issues

participation in actions aimed at implementation of the climate and energy package in national legislation, taking into account in particular the transposition of the provisions of Directive 2009/28/EC in the Renewable Energy Sources Act, which was announced by the government
- Propagation of the development scenarios of individual RES technologies, which were drawn up by PIGEO, and lobbying for the benefit of the Chamber’s proposal in newly created and amended legal acts
- Cooperation with the Polish Renewable Energy Coordination Council and with the representatives of the Government through consultations
- Cooperation with the European Commission, which is monitoring the implementation of EU regulations in individual member countries
- Cooperation with European associations such as EREF, EWEA and EREC in order to increase the implementation of common reports, which include directions for the future use of renewable sources.
Implementation and execution of the Operational Programme „Infrastructure and Environment”
- Expert cooperation with the Ministry of Economy, the Ministry of Regional Development, the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management (Narodowy Fundusz Ochrony Środowiska i Gospodarki Wodnej, NFOŚiGW) during the acceptance and selection of projects for co-financing
- Expressing opinions about the regulations and guidelines for applications for the co-financing of investments using renewable sources
- Information meetings and workshops for members of the Chamber on preparing applications for raising financial support for investments
Activities for the development of the market of machinery for the RES sector
- Further cooperation with the Ministry of the Environment and the Ministry of Regional Development on the preparation of the sector’s development strategy
- Search for investors interested in the production of RES machinery in Poland
Taking the initiative to classify renewable energy investments as public purpose investments, in order to facilitate legislative procedures
Taking the initiative to create funds of small subsidies for individual investments in small capacity RES facilities (solar collectors, heat pumps, biomass boilers, windmills) for the needs of individual households
Sanctioning the possibility of combining the certificates of origin of energy from renewable sources with the certificates of origin from high-efficiency cogeneration for biogas and biomass installations
Taking actions aimed at the inclusion of grid investments concerning RES connections in investment plans of distribution companies
Taking the initiative of allocating the funds from substitution fees, which are accumulated at the NFOŚiGW (the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water) subfund, to the financing of RES connection investments
Taking actions aimed at achieving the stability of the support system and its diversification
Taking actions for the creation of long-term support for the production of energy from renewable sources using the co-generation process

2. Elimination of investment barriers to individual sources

Wind power industry
- Promotion of a guidebook for investors: “Assessment of the environmental risk accompanying investments in wind power industry” among entrepreneurs and public officials. Securing acceptance for this document on the part of environmental organisations and the Minister of the Environment. Attempting to sanction the suggested solutions in the form of guidelines of the Ministry of the Environment.
- Preparing promotional materials including an objective presentation of the operations of wind turbines
- Balancing– cooperation with the Transmission System Operator (OSP), the Distribution System Operator (OSD) and the Energy Regulatory Office (URE) during the implementation of the new balancing rules. Lobbying for the extension of the application of favourable balancing rules of windmills until 2020.
- Connection to the grid – lobbying at the governmental and parliamentary levels for the benefit of legislative solutions aimed at unfreezing access to the grid and creating rational rules of applying for connections by new RES undertakings.
- Cooperation with the Agricultural Property Agency of the State Treasury in order to develop the rules for leasing agricultural areas used for wind investments
- Taking actions aimed at establishing clear and investor-friendly rules of completion of offshore investments on the Baltic Sea
Power industry with the use of biomass and biogas
- Attempting to implement a model project of a Regional Energy Biomass Exchange. Promotion of Exchanges among national and local authorities.
- Limiting and blocking the support for high capacity co-combustion (without co-generation) – taking the initiative of an amendment to the Regulation of the Minister of Economy which classifies co-combustion as RES. Attempting to block the support for co-combustion from national funds. A campaign informing about harmfulness of co-combustion has been directed at decision-makers.
- Taking actions aimed at limiting the possibilities of using forest biomass, except for forest waste, for energy purposes.
- Initiating the work on standards concerning the fuels classified as biomass, classification of waste which may be used as biomass for energy purposes and machinery requirements as well as the possibilities of their “thermal treatment”.
- Taking actions aimed at the facilitation of the utilization process of post-fermentation residues used in the fertilization process
- Promoting high-efficiency co-generation with the use of biomass and biogas
Hydropower industry
- initiating a substantive debate on the needs and possibilities of creating large hydropower industry facilities in Poland
- taking actions aimed at developing a friendly policy of water facility management for energy purposes
- blocking amendments to acts which would introduce charges for using water for energy purposes
- Promoting actions aimed at investments in small hydropower industry facilities
Heat pumps, geothermal and solar energy
- Suggesting an initiative to create a preferential tariff for electricity used for the purposes of heat pumps
- Promotion of geothermal energy, heat pumps and solar power industry through workshops for journalists and public officials
- Initiating support in the form of national and EU resources for the purchase of machinery used in public utility and residential buildings.
- Soliciting the introduction of tax preferences for the purchase of RES machinery.

Cooperation with local governments

Initiating regional meetings with the representatives of voivodeship, marshal, county and communal offices on the issues of renewable energy development, investments, creating energy strategies, raising funds for investments, etc.
Participation in the works on the implementation of Regional Operating Programmes (RPOs) in individual voivodeships.
Searching for local governments willing to implement the project of energy biomass exchanges.
Searching for communal self-governments willing to comprehensively develop the renewable power industry in their area.

International cooperation

1. Legislative and political issues

Lobbying for the determination of additional renewable energy share targets reaching beyond the year 2020
Active participation in discussions regarding the possibility of faster transposition of the regulations of the climate and energy package
Cooperation with foreign partners within and outside Europe in order to take advantage of model system solutions for supporting the development of the RES market in Poland and to use their experience in introducing appropriate solutions on the Polish market
Promotion of the Polish renewable energy market in Europe and in the world.

These actions will be conducted in particular through:

Cooperation with European institutions, and particularly with the European Commission
Cooperation within the framework of the European Renewable Energies Federation uniting producers and organisations acting for the development of RES in Europe
Cooperation with Members of the European Parliament and Polish MPs, members of EUFORES – the European Forum for Renewable Energy Sources
Organization of the International Renewable Energy Fair “Green Power” as well as Green Power Congress
Cooperation within the framework of the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), the European Renewable Energies Federation (EREF) and the European Renewable Energy Council (EREC),
Joining the European Biogas Association
Bilateral meetings with foreign partners

2. Cooperation with foreign investors

Encouraging foreign companies to invest on the Polish market and cooperate with PIGEO members
Assistance in finding business partners in Poland
Offering consultations about investments on the Polish renewable energy market.

These actions will be conducted in particular through:

Organization of seminars for Foreign Investors’ Managemen
Preparation of offers for foreign investors as an introduction to the establishment of Investor Service Centre.
Ongoing cooperation with the representatives of bilateral chambers of commerce and industry as well as the representatives of commercial departments of embassies.
Participation in international renewable energy fairs: (Green Power, POLEKO – Poznań, ENEX New Energy – Kielce, international fairs)

Support and services for investors

Searching for business partners for members of the Chamber.
Integration of the entrepreneurs united within the Chamber.
Promotion Chamber members at domestic and foreign fairs.
Organising consulting support for investors with regard to environmental impact assessments, investment location conditions, financial engineering with the participation of public funds, in particular those from the Cohesion Fund and NFOŚiGW (the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water).
Current analyses of the RES market.
Offering consultations about interpretations of the energy and environmental protection law provisions.
Continued development of the website.
Completion of Investor Service Centre with the use of EU funds within the framework of the Innovative Economy Operational Programme.