Fortum to enter Polish market

The Finnish electricity and heat energy company Fortum said that it will begin offering its services to Polish customers, according to a report released by the company on Tuesday. The company’s director of Polish operations indicated that part of the company’s strategy in attracting customers will be an offer of up to 10 hours of “free energy” per day for some of its customers, for a limited time period. “Small and medium-sized enterprises (especially) will be a good platform for the development of a large and rapidly growing market for the sale of electricity and gas in Poland,” Mariusz Caliński mentioned in the statement. Fortum specializes in providing heating and cooling to businesses and homes. According to its website, it aims to be “a forerunner in clean energy,” and invests heavily in solar and wind energy products across Europe. It took over 100 percent of the shares of the Polish electrical energy and gas distributor Grupa Duon in April of this year, and has been operating in Poland since 2003.