In six months, they burned 50,000 tons of waste. That's enough to fill 200 Olympic-sized swimming pools.

• The Clean Energy Port is a key investment in municipal waste management in Gdańsk and the region.
• Next year, the electricity produced at the Clean Energy Port will ultimately be delivered to municipal companies and organizational units of the city of Gdańsk.
• In July, the city of Gdańsk, together with municipal companies and the Gdańsk University of Technology, established the Energy Cluster.

The Clean Energy Port, whose role is to stabilize waste management in Gdańsk and the region, has been operating at full capacity for six months. Located adjacent to the Szadółki Waste Disposal Plant, the Clean Energy Port accepts the non-recyclable energy fraction of municipal waste from the Gdańsk Waste Management Plant (ZUT), the Solid Waste Disposal Plant (STP) in Tczew, and the Waste Disposal Plant (WTP) in Gilwa Mała near Kwidzyn. In total, from these three facilities, PCE received nearly 50,000 tons of waste over the six-month period.

" That's as much as would fit in 200 Olympic-sized swimming pools . PCE's operations reduce waste disposal, greenhouse gas emissions, and ensure environmentally safe management of hazardous waste," the company states in its half-year summary.

The Clean Energy Port is a key investment in municipal waste management in Gdańsk and the region. We thermally process all residues from various mechanical processes designed to extract as many raw materials as possible from waste entering municipal installations for recycling. These are residues from the sorting, composting, and shredding of non-recyclable bulk materials.

- says Sławomir Kiszkurno, president of the board of the Clean Energy Port.

As the president explains, these are burdensome fractions that no longer have to "seek" very expensive management "outside" the plants and do not end up in storage areas, which at the same time reduces the environmental burden and odor nuisance, which is so important for local residents.

At the Clean Energy Port , municipal waste is converted into energy through incineration . The thermal energy generated in the municipal waste incineration plant is fed directly into the city's heating network. From February to June, PCE supplied 185,000 GJ of heat to the network – an amount that could meet the annual needs of approximately 6,000 homes.

The electricity generated at the ITPOK feeds the national grid. During the first half of 2025, the PCE produced 32,105 MWh of electricity.

- Next year, the electricity produced at the Clean Energy Port will ultimately go to municipal companies and organizational units of the city of Gdańsk, meaning it will be used for, among other things, road lighting, buses and trams, institutions, public facilities, water and sewage infrastructure - says Marta Szabłowska, vice president of the Clean Energy Port.

In addition to the thermal disposal of municipal waste and the production of electricity and heat, the Clean Energy Port also produces secondary waste – slag and bottom ash, as well as waste from exhaust gas treatment.

The company argues that thanks to the technological advancement of the Gdańsk installation and previous effective sorting in municipal installations , slag constitutes only about 15% of the waste sent to the ITPOK, while dust and ash constitute 3.5%.

“The waste generated in the process is managed in a circular manner thanks to cooperation with a company that has the appropriate permits for its appropriate processing for further use in construction and road construction,” explains PCzE.

Thanks to losing their waste status, they are used, among others, for the production of:

• concrete blocks,
• aggregates,
• construction mixtures (substructure and hardening of roads, stabilization of soil and road surfaces).

In July, the City of Gdańsk, together with municipal companies and the Gdańsk University of Technology, established the Gdańsk Energy Cluster. This agreement aims to generate clean, local energy.

One of the cluster's areas of activity is the Szadółki Energy Island - a self-sufficient energy area consisting of three municipal companies: Clean Energy Port, Waste Disposal Plant and Gdańskie Usług Komunalne.

The Cluster's activities are expected to result in concrete benefits for residents: lower energy costs in schools and institutions, cleaner air and increased resilience to energy crises.