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Since 2010, the household price of electricity in Poland has seen little change, increasing from euro cents per kilowatt-hour to euro cents in the second semester of 2025. 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 2024, households using between and kWh paid euro cents per kWh. This was considerably less than in Czechia or neighboring Germany, where prices amounted to and euro cents per kilowatt-hour, respectively.

Electricity production

The vast majority of electricity in Poland is produced by the burning of ****. Of this total, ** percent was produced by hard coal in 2024. 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.