Distribution
Distribution plays an important role in the building of PGNiG Group value. The updated strategy provides for the following strategic objectives relating to the distribution business:
- To improve the profitability of the distribution business;
- To optimise costs and functions;
- To optimise development of the distribution network.
Actions taken to pursue these objectives include:
- Increasing the regulatory value of assets approved by the Energy Regulatory Office and closing the cost gap in the tariff;
- Implementing the strategic procurement functions in the distribution companies, establishing a shared services centre for the distribution companies and optimising/improving network efficiency;
- Establishing uniform rules for the distribution network’s development (including ten-year investment plans), streamlining the legally permitted platform for communicating demand from customers and the sales business, and launching a pilot programme to assess the feasibility of implementing an intelligent meter reading system.
Our achievements to-date
In 2011, the Gas Distribution Companies worked on extending and upgrading the gas network, and connecting new customers to both existing and newly built sections of the network. The Gas Distribution Companies also replaced the most failure-prone sections of cast-iron piping and modernised the longest operating sections of the piping whose continued operation posed a safety hazard and caused substantial gas losses.