Social capital

PGE Group builds local partnerships focused on development and cooperation. We make every effort to be a good and responsible neighbor. Thanks to the resources at our disposal, we can noticeably get involved in local life, supporting educational, sporting and cultural initiatives. The industry in which we operate is characterised by long-term planning. Social acceptance for our activities constitutes an important element of our economic activities. We believe that in the long term only sustainable development based on partner relations is possible.

• Organisational culture based on dialogue with employees and the surroundings.
• Adoption of PGE Group’s Code of Ethics and the resulting provisions in the Code of Conduct for PGE Group’s Business Partners and the Anti-corruption Policy.
• Since 2011, we have been supporting the development of local communities, providing grants and implementing our own programmes within PGE Foundation. We help, among others conducting philanthropic activity, organizing and financing employee volunteering, support projects for primary school students – „Energetic backpack” and the support program for Warsaw Rising participants – „Heroes of Our Future”.
• The Group also operates the PGE Energia Ciepła Foundation, which was associated with the acquired assets of EDF.
• PGE S.A.’s marketing activities, understood as sports and culture sponsoring and advertising activities, including image and sales ad campaigns and other forms of brand promotion, contributes to strengthening the position of the PGE brand.

• Employee volunteering: since the first edition of the program, i.e. since 2014, we completed 267 projects across the whole country. These included building new playgrounds, renovating school classrooms and delivering complete equipment for kids and youth day centres. 210 employees participated in the sixth edition of the programme in 2019. Our volunteers and members of their families took more than 9 000 hours from their free time to do this.
• Energy Backpack: this is a continuation of a campaign started over a dozen years ago by Łódź-based electricians and consisting of gifting school supplies to first-graders. In 2019 companies from the PGE Group along with the PGE Foundation passed on more than Energy Backpacks to pupils.
• White stork protection: our energy professionals have for many years been participating in activities intended to protect the white stork, mainly by setting up platforms on LV line pillars. So far, we have installed over 25 thousand platforms within our distribution area to ensure bird safety.
• Forests full of energy: this is an in-house ecological initiative created in 2000 by energy professionals from PGE Dystrybucja and developed by employees from other PGE Group companies. In 2019, as part of the „Forests full of energy” campaign in key companies of the PGE Group, employees with families and in cooperation with the Regional Directorates of State Forests, schools and local communities planted approximately 95 000 trees in 32 locations in 14 provinces. Over the years, our Group employees have planted almost 600 000 young trees – mainly pines, spruces and oaks – as part of this campaign.