Renewable diesel blends

Currently, there is no hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) production in Poland. For many years the regulatory landscape in Poland was not favorable to HVO, creating, in fact, a market where HVO could not be distributed. This has changed now; however legal provisions clearly promote conventional biofuels (FAME and ethanol) over other products.

On September 30, 2021, the Supervisory Board of PKN ORLEN S.A. approved the implementation of the investment task: the construction of an HVO unit (hydrogenation of vegetable oils) at the company’s production facility in Płock. The capacity installed will amount to 300,000 tonnes of HVO or sustainable aviation biofuel per year. The total cost of the investment is estimated at approximately PLN 600 million (USD 137 million). Comple