Electricity prices for households in Poland 2010-2023, semi-annually

Since 2010, the household price of electricity in Poland has seen little change, increasing from 13.41 euro cents per kilowatt-hour to 17.69 euro cents in the first semester of 2023. Looking at the figures, it can be seen that on average prices were cheaper in the second half of each year. A noticeable exception was in the second half of 2021, when prices increased by due to the energy crisis. This was the peak price during the period of consideration.

Price comparisons

Compared to the rest of Europe, Polish households pay a reasonably low amount for electricity. In 2021, households using between 2.500 and 5.000 kWh paid 15.48 euro cents per kWh. This was considerably less than in Czechia or neighboring Germany, where prices amounted to 18.02 and 31.93 euro cents per kilowatt-hour, respectively.

Electricity production

The vast majority of electricity in Poland is produced by the burning of coal. Of this total, 55 percent was produced by hard coal in 2022. Due to its reliance on fossil fuels for energy, pollution is high in Poland. However, the last decade has seen a decline in power generation from solid fossil fuels and an increase in power generation from natural gas and renewable sources. At the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow in 2021, Poland also pledged to phase out coal.