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The energy company ČEZ is joining the nation-wide project called Jubilee Year, a debt jubilee that enables debtors to free themselves of execution conducted against them, if their debt is to a public institution or a company in which the state has a majority stake. For people with utility debts, ČEZ is launching a special website, www.cez.cz/cs/milostive-leto, where everyone interested can find detailed instructions on how to proceed. This one-time opportunity is available to tens of thousands of debtors in distraint, until 28 January 2022.

ČEZ Group and Komerční banka today announced their strategic partnership for sustainability. The country’s largest energy company and one of the largest Czech banks will work together to reduce their climate footprint as well as their customers’ emissions, thereby helping the Czech Republic on its way to meeting the 2030 European climate targets, a stricter version of which was put forward by the European Commission this summer. Both companies have ambitious plans in this area: Komerční banka wants to become carbon neutral by 2026 and ČEZ Group plans to reduce the use of coal to a minimum by 2030, replacing it with low-emission and renewable sources in power generation. The first step in the cooperation of the two companies is an innovative model for installing rooftop photovoltaic power plants at customers’ sites. Komerční banka has also begun purchasing electricity from renewable sources from ČEZ ESCO.

• 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.

The ORLEN Unipetrol Group continues expanding the offer of its Benzina ORLEN network with electricity from fast-charging stations. They can recharge e-car batteries with zero-emission electricity in tens of minutes. In addition, Benzina ORLEN offers eco-friendly energy from ČEZ green stations in ten regions throughout the Czech Republic. Last year, drivers charged up with as much energy as would enable 40 trips around the world.