New energy group BOT on schedule says Treasury Minister

Advisors from the Hexagon Capital are to design an energy group BOT co nsisting of three power plants Bełchatów, Turów and Opole, as well as two brown coal mines. According to sources, Hexagon has already started informal analysis of the companies, for which they have to pay, but it remains unknown whether it would be useful at all. However, representatives of the Treasury Ministry claim that the new venture would be created according to the schedule, by the end of the year. "I cannot say that BOT will not be created, as the governmental plan is still in frutition. However, social pressure is hard at the moment and we will not press too much," said Tadeusz Soroka, Deputy Treasury Minister in charge of the energy sector, during a meeting last Wednesday. He also added that BOT would not be created if the long-term energy contracts (KDT) were to remain in charge. (Puls Biznesu, pp. 1, 5) M.M.