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In the upcoming heating season, ČEZ Group plans to lower the heating temperature by 2 to 4 degrees centigrade in more than a hundred of its office buildings across the Czech Republic. It estimates that this will save nearly 15% of its energy consumption. At the same time, the company carries on with its long-term programme to reduce energy intensity – investing an average of CZK 45 million a year in insulation and other energy saving measures. ČEZ plans to save at least another 15% of all energies by 2027. This is to be aided by, among other things, the installation of heat pumps and photovoltaics, or by the planned central control system for more efficient regulation of heating, cooling, and air conditioning.

With the test floating solar power plant at Homole, the upper reservoir of the Štěchovice pumped-storage power plant, power engineers will be able to determine the properties of floating carriers and solar panels in a real environment, in combination with the daily operation of the pumped-storage power plant. In the summer, the pilot installation will be expanded into a regular power plant using solar power, with a capacity of 100 kWp. Overall, the upper reservoir could house solar panels with a capacity of up to 2.5 MW.

• The Elevion Group comprises 54 companies in 9 countries, employing more than 4,100 people.

• In total, the Belectric Group has completed more than 400 photovoltaic projects with a capacity of more than 4 GW and provides services on 2.2 GW of power plants.

• Belectric GmbH and other European parts of Belectric will become one of the flagships of Elevion Group’s expansion in the solar market.

• For Belectric, the merger with the Elevion Group means the possibility of significant synergies in the advanced energy solutions sector and access to new customers.

The subject of the acquisition is a 100% stake in the German-based Belectric GmbH and other European parts of the Belectric Solar & Battery Group holding, such as Belectric France SARL, Belectric Solar Ltd, Belectric Italia SRL, as well as Belectric Israel Ltd. The group develops, designs, builds, and services photovoltaic power plants. The acquisition is in line with the Elevion Group’s strategy that envisages covering the entire business chain in the field of climate-neutral solutions.

• Last year, ČEZ detected 6.5 times more suspicious activity in its networks than three years ago.

• The newly launched security monitoring centre – the iSOC (Integrated Security Operations Center) oversees the protection of ČEZ Group in terms of physical, information, and cyber security.

• The protection of critical information infrastructure in the Czech Republic is one of the priorities of the newly established National Coordination Centre for Research and Development in the Field of Cyber Security.

The energy company ČEZ opened its new Integrated Security Operations Center – iSOC, which oversees the cyber security of ČEZ Group’s information systems, in the presence of senior representatives of the National Cyber and Information Security Agency (NÚKIB), Military Intelligence (VZ), and Czech Police (PČR). The centre’s task is not only to detect security events and incidents and activate the necessary countermeasures as quickly as possible, but also to oversee their effective resolution and, above all, to prevent security events in the future.