It also provides nationwide maintenance and emergency response services to the railway network, operates fuel stations for diesel locomotives and is active in electricity and gas reselling.

It owns 20,000 km of distribution network and operates a fleet of highly specialised trains and rail equipment across Poland.

It was created in 2001 as the result of the division of Polskie Koleje Państwowe (Poland's state-owned railway company) into several dozen companies to prepare the ground for privatisation in line with advice that the Polish government had received from the World Bank.

[2] In late 2022, it was reported that the Polish PiS government might buy back PKP Energetyka from CVC Capital Partners.

[3] On 28 December 2022, PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna signed a preliminary agreement with the CVC Fund to purchase 100% of shares in PKPE Holding sp.