PIK operates heat distribution networks of the 150/80 and 95/70 types with a total length of 13,500 m distributing heat to almost 2,700 individual customers (in housing association and municipal flats as well in privately owned houses) and to a few dozen other buildings (such as schools, kindergartens, shops and industrial facilities). At present the heat is generated at a solid-fuel fired Town Boilerhouse and two local gas-fired boiler plants. Because of the general trend to limit pollutant emissions and the rapid technological progress in power engineering the Management Board of the Company has made efforts aimed towards modernisation of the existing heating system. A general plan was drawn up to construct a system of local gas and oil fired boiler plants and to rebuild the heat distribution networks in order to introduce state-of-the-art, energy-saving technologies. The company is currently applying for a grant from the Swiss Government and extra funding from the National Environment Protection Fund as well as from the Provincial Environment Protection Fund.

Grant
At the Kyoto Conference the developed countries of the world have decided to include Eastern Europe as a region receiving assistance in reducing atmospheric emissions of harmful substances. The assistance is in the form of co-financing in projects to rebuild currently operated heat distribution systems that have high emissions of pollutants and low efficiencies. A few dozen companies from all over Poland, including a dozen or so from the region of Silesia applied for the grant of the Swiss Goverment. Following detailed studies and verifcation carried out by experts representing the Swiss Government, funds were awarded only to two companies - one of them was PIK.