Heating sector investors will still have to remain patient to make a profit

Heating plants have started battling over money. They are demanding changes to regulations which will help investors make profit from the money they invested in the sector. For the time being though, they have no other choice than to run a non-profit business. Some 45% of plants incurred losses on their basic activity last year. The condition of the sector today is still far from the perfect. The gross profit of the sector has increased by a mere zł. 22 million, on a turnover of zł. 7 billion. "Such a marginal profit is a result of the plants' various attempts to repair their budgets by launching additional businesses," said deputy president of the Heating Plants Chamber of Commerce (IGCP) Bogusław Regulski. Despite this fact, one third of the plants surveyed by IGCP ended 2002 with a gross loss. (Puls Biznesu, p. 8) A.Z.