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Polowiec & Partners

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Consulting areas

Energy-intensive industry & production

Legal insight. Industrial understanding.

We support facilities where utility reliability determines financial performance

We operate at the intersection of law, contracts, and plant operational realities. We work with "hard" parameters: volumes, profiles, and media quality, ensuring that regulations translate into production resilience.
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ENERGY-INTENSIVE INDUSTRY & PRODUCTION

We operate as part of the team

We work close to operations with a focus on production resilience.

Map of critical media and risks

We identify single points of failure (energy/gas/steam/water/cooling) and the contractual consequences of downtime.

Reliability Contracts

Negotiations, emergency regimes, quality parameters, escalations and penalties as tools to ensure continuity.

Scenarios for constraints and incidents

Mechanisms for dealing with supply constraints, redispatching, outages and billing disputes.

Cost stabilization over a multi-year horizon

Designing long-term solutions (cPPA/hedging) to limit exposure to market volatility.

ENERGY-INTENSIVE INDUSTRY & PRODUCTION

Scope of support and Products

Contracts and energy trading for production

  • Energy and gas sales contracts: volumes, profiles, flexibility, indexation and settlements
  • Supply continuity clauses: curtailment, force majeure, allocation of risks and downtime costs
  • Long-term "Price Certainty" contracts for industrial customers
  • Negotiation support for purchases and strategic agreements
  • Corporate PPA (physical and financial) and BPA (biomethane/gas)
  • Toiling, profit-share, evergy-as-a-service

Production media (utilities) – continuity and reliability

  • Contracts (including long-term contracts) for critical utilities: electricity, gas, process steam, compressed air, technical gases (N₂/O₂/CO₂), process water, cooling/heating
  • Quality parameters: quality standards, response times, service windows, escalations, contractual penalties
  • Resilience mechanisms: redundancy/backup, continuity obligations, information obligations, incident playbooks
  • Local distribution and plant infrastructure: service/O&M contracts (where applicable), infrastructure liability and outage coverage

Efficiency and consumption optimization

  • Identification of regulatory obligations and risks and their cost to the plant
  • Support in the implementation of the efficiency obligation on the part of obligated entities
  • White certificates – legal support: project qualification, formal risks, evidence/audit trail, procedure and correspondence with authorities
  • Contracts for efficiency projects: EPC/ESCO (if applicable), performance settlement models, guarantees, liability, acceptance, maintenance of parameters, performance shortfall risks
  • Action plan and governance: integrating the action plan into corporate processes (capex, controlling, supply chain) and preparing for publication/reporting – in line with obligations

Regulations and competitiveness instruments for energy-intensive industries

  • Support in the "narrative and compliance” around low emissions/carbon footprint (national mix risks vs. installation/contract data)
  • Consulting on infrastructure solutions that improve competitiveness (e.g. direct line, one-stop-shop, predictable procedures – strongly emphasized in industry materials)
  • Support for modernisation/decarbonisation projects (CAPEX and "frozen investments" issues, procedural barriers and the need for demand mechanisms)

Incident management

  • Scenario assessment: supply interruptions, failure to meet parameters, billing disputes, downtime damages
  • Pre-litigation activities, negotiations and mediation
  • Representation in disputes and analysis of the consequences of decisions for further operations and contracts
  • A preventive action plan, including changes to contracts/procedures following an incident

Training and workshops

We build the competencies of teams

Strategic workshops

"Energy and media contracts without the risk of downtime" - for the management and purchasing department.

Operational training

"Critical media - how to secure parameters and continuity" - for maintaining traffic and production.

Regulatory compliance

Training on changing responsibilities for energy-intensive industries.

Coordination of legal and technical issues

Consistency of environmental, health and safety, technical supervision and product liability documentation.

Polowiec & Partners

Clear rules of Cooperation

Common priorities

We set tasks together with the client's business and operational teams, focusing on issues that require a quick response and are important for business continuity.

Direct communication channels

We tailor our collaboration to the client's preferences and needs. We are available both remotely and on-site – during meetings, workshops, and on-site visits. We prioritize direct contact, efficient communication, and the absence of unnecessary barriers.