Energy prices in 2025
Amendment to the Act on emergency measures aimed at limiting electricity prices and supporting certain consumers in 2023 and 2024 and certain other acts, primarily provides for maintaining the maximum electricity price at PLN 500 per MWh net for households until the end of September 2025 .
By the end of March 2025, local government units and sensitive entities will be able to benefit from the maximum price of PLN 693 per MWh net.. This solution is expected to cost an additional PLN 150 million.
The Act also provides that sellers ex officio of electricity will submit applications to the President of the Energy Regulatory Office by April 30, 2025 to change their tariffs, valid until the end of 2025. If the trading company obliged to do so does not submit such an application, the payment of compensation for sales will be suspended. energy below the tariff price.
Exemption from the capacity fee
The new regulations also provide for the extension until mid-2025 of the exemption from the capacity fee for those customers who consume electricity for their own needs from consumption points with a voltage of at most 1 kV. These recipients are mainly households. When the capacity fee was suspended in mid-2024, it ranged from PLN 2.66 to PLN 14.9 net per month, depending on the energy consumption in a given household. The capacity fee goes to the transmission operator PSE. The act provides that PSE will receive compensation from the COVID-19 fund.
How much does it cost to freeze energy prices?
The cost of protective solutions for households until September 30, 2025 was estimated by the government at PLN 3.732 billion, including an additional PLN 150 million for local governments and public utility entities, and an additional PLN 398 million in 2026 for the subsequent settlement of compensation. In total, it amounts to PLN 3.98 billion. The cost of suspending the capacity fee until mid-2025 was calculated at PLN 1.476 billion. In total, the entire intervention will cost just over PLN 5.6 billion. (PAP)
