Repower World Summit 2025 - a success!

The Repower World Summit 2025 took place in Katowice, a centre of Poland's coal industry. 200 world experts gathered to solve the question of how to decarbonise coal power plants. The answer is Repowering - upgrading coal sites with clean, heat-generating technology.

The summit took place in the Silesian Museum – a former coal mine, which has been rebuilt to have a new lease of life as a museum/conference venue. It was hosted by the Silesian University of Technology, partnering with Quantified Carbon.  

The event was held under the honorary patronage of the Polish Minister for European Union Affairs, the Polish Minister of Climate and Environment, the Polish Minister of Industry and the Polish Minister of State Assets.

World experts in policy, technology, finance, industry and research, worked on how to accelerate Repowering globally. A century’s worth of electricity infrastructure is built, we have the technological know-how - enormous economic opportunities are available right now.

3000 coal power plants are currently in use, and 700 GW of this capacity is less than 10 years old. Trillions of dollars are invested into these units. Can these be reused as part of the transition to clean energy? Absolutely.

Repowering's many advantages include:

• Decarbonising the plant - avoiding further fossil fuel burn 

• Avoiding stranded assets 

• Maintaining existing employment, site, permits and equipment 

• Providing a like-for-like replacement of energy production 

• Providing electrical energy and district heating to the local community 
• Simpler than developing greenfield sites (including electrical lines)

This event was the largest Repower summit to date. Momentum is building on this global movement - let's build a bright future together by combining our ingenuity.

Special thanks to Lukasz Bartela Dorota Homa , Paweł Gładysz and our excellent partners at the Silesian University of Technology/DEsire - Platforma Transformacji Energetyki who hosted the summit and gave us such a warm and hospitable Polish welcome.

Main partners of the event in Katowice were: PGE GiEK, Tauron PE, GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, EDF and ORLEN Synthos Green Energy.   

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