Antigua Central Electrica de Poznań

Coal was first shipped from England to Szczecin, where he handled it on the barges. After the railway came to Wroclaw the coal started to be brought from Silesia by rail. Initially, rapidly growing company in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century experienced the difficulties of competition in electricity, but after Poland regained its independence again modernized facility and carried out an extensive advertising campaign. As a result, 96% of the population in 1939 benefited from the gas produced in the municipal gasworks, and the total network length was 250 km.

In 1970 a pipeline supplying natural gas was constructed. Fuel switching, meant that after 117 years of operation, in 1973, the quenched gas plant was closed. Currently the building is managed the Wielkopolska Spółka Gazownictwa which gradually restores buildings of the old gasworks.