Dalkia and Vattenfall battle it out in controversial ZEC privatization

The company is a highly attractive asset for investors, as it not only produces power and hot water, but it also owns its own distribution network. It is for this reason that ZEC's privatization has aroused heated debates among residents of Łódź, who set up a committee collecting signatures in favor of dividing the company's generating and distribution assets before its privatization. They propose that the distribution network would remain state-owned, as selling it with the power plants could result in a monopoly of the local heating market and an uncontrolled increase in prices. (Puls Biznesu, p. 10) D.W.