Statistics Poland

Enterprices Department

00-950 Warszawa, Aleja Niepodleglosci 208

European statistics on electricity prices for household and final non-household customers.

Internal Eurostat classification system based on annual electricity consumption bands and tax levels.

Household sector and final non-household sector (industry, services, offices, agriculture, etc).

The prices are reported in national currencies per kWh and according to different bands of consumption.

For the household sector, these bands are:

• DA: customers consuming less than 1000 kWh.
• DB: customers consuming 1000 kWh or more but less than 2500 kWh.
• DC: customers consuming 2500 kWh or more but less than 5000 kWh.
• DD: customers consuming 5000 kWh or more but less than 15000 kWh.
• DE: customers consuming 15000 kWh or more.

For the final non-household sector, the bands are:

• IA: customers consuming less than 20 MWh.
• IB: customers consuming 20 MWh or more but less than 500 MWh.
• IC: customers consuming 500 MWh or more but less than 2000 MWh.
• ID: customers consuming 2000 MWh or more but less than 20000 MWh.
• IE: customers consuming 20000 MWh or more but less than 70000 MWh.
• IF: customers consuming 70000 MWh or more but less than 150000 MWh.
• IG: customers consuming 150000 MWh or more.

There exist 2 different levels of disagregation for semestrial and annual prices:

1- Semestrial prices:

These prices are reported twice a year and are divided in 3 levels:

• Level 1 prices: prices excluding taxes and levies.
• Level 2 prices: prices excluding VAT and other recoverable taxes and levies.
• Level 3 prices: prices including all taxes and levies.

2- Annual prices:

These prices are reported once a year together with the data for the second semester and are divided into the following components and taxes:

• Energy and supply: generation, aggregation, balancing energy, supplied energy costs, customer services, after-sales management and other supply costs.
• Network cost: transmission and distribution tariffs, transmission and distribution losses, network costs, after-sale service costs, system service costs, and meter rental and metering costs.
• Value added taxes (VAT): as defined in Council Directive 2006/112/EC.
• Renewable taxes: taxes, fees, levies or charges relating to the promotion of renewable energy sources, energy efficiency and CHP generation.
• Capacity taxes: Taxes, fees, levies or charges relating to capacity payments, energy security and generation adequacy; taxes on coal industry restructuring; taxes on electricity distribution; stranded costs and levies on financing energy regulatory authorities or market and system operators.
• Environmental taxes: taxes, fees, levies or charges relating to air quality and for other environmental purposes; taxes on emissions of CO₂ or other greenhouse gases. This component includes the excise duties.
• Nuclear taxes: taxes, fees, levies or charges relating to the nuclear sector, including nuclear decommissioning, inspections and fees for nuclear installations.
• All other taxes: taxes, fees, levies or charges not covered by any of the previous five categories: support for district heating; local or regional fiscal charges; island compensation; concession fees relating to licences and fees for the occupation of land and public or private property by networks or other devices.

In addition to these elements, the network cost is split into the respective shares of transmission and distribution. The relative share of consumption in the different consumption bands is reported by the countries and used to calculated the single national electricity prices (weighted averages for consumer bands IA-IF and DA-DE) but not published because it could be used to re-calculate some confidential values.

Some of the taxes are refundable. Here is a description of them:

In the table below are the taxes reported in "All other taxes".

Household and final non-household consumers divided into consumption bands.

2019:

Household customers: Data coming from 55 suppliers out of 68 and representing 100% of the household customers.

Final non-household customers: Data coming from 55 suppliers out of 68 and representing 87,23% of the final non-household customers.

2020:

Household customers: Data coming from 62 suppliers out of 69 and representing 99% of the household customers.

Final non-household customers: Data coming from 62 suppliers out of 69 and representing 88,75% of the final non-household customers.

2021:

Household customers: Data coming from 62 suppliers out of 70 and representing 97,7% of the household customers.

Final non-household customers: Data coming from 62 suppliers out of 70 and representing 83,72% of the final non-household customers.

The reference area is the whole country. There is no regions excluded from the surveys.

Generally electricity prices data for Poland in form defined by Eurostat are available since 2000. Data collected in accordance with the Regulation (EU) 2016/1952 are available from 2017.

Not applicable.

Prices are reported in national currency per kWh. However, Eurostat also calculates and publishes the prices in EURO and PPS (purchasing power parity).
Relative shares of sub-component of the network component and consumption volumes are reported in percentages.

For semestrial prices, the reference periods are from January to June for semester 1 and from July to December for semester 2.

For annual prices, the reference period is the whole calendar year (from January to December).

At EU level:

• Regulation (EU) 2016/1952 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 October 2016 on European statistics on natural gas and electricity prices and repealing Directive 2008/92/EC (Text with EEA relevance).
• Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2169 of 21 November 2017 concerning the format and arrangements for the transmission of European Statistics on natural gas and electricity prices pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2016/1952 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance).
• Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/1734 of 14 November 2018 granting derogations to the Federal Republic of Germany, the Kingdom of Spain, the Italian Republic and the Republic of Cyprus as regards the provision of statistics pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2016/1952 of the European Parliament and of the Council (notified under document C(2018) 7465) (Text with EEA relevance).
• Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/823 concerning the content of quality reports on European statistics on natural gas and electricity prices pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2016/1952 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance).

At national level: 

• Annual Regulation of the Council of Ministers regarding Programme of Statistical Surveyes of Public Statistics:https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU20180002103  (for 2019) https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU20190002366 (for 2020), https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU20200002062 (for 2021).

At EU level:

• Eurostat does not share the data collected with other organisation appart from its usual dissemination chanel (Eurostat's database, statistic explained articles and press or news release) .

At national level:

• Data is sent to Eurostat.
• Data is sent to IEA/OECD. This data concerns environmental tax.
• Part of the data is published in: "Statystyka Elektroenergetyki Polskiej" - "Polish Power Industry Statistics" (is included in the sale offer), in "Energetyka Polska" - "Energy in Poland" (is available online):https://www.gov.pl/web/klimat/badania-statystyczne and in "Energia 2020" - "Energy 2020"  (is available online): https://stat.gov.pl/obszary-tematyczne/srodowisko-energia/energia/energia-2020-folder,1,8.htmland in "Energia 2021" - "Energy 2021"  (is available online): https://stat.gov.pl/obszary-tematyczne/srodowisko-energia/energia/energia-2021-folder,1,9.html

At EU level:

• Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council,  of 11 March 2009 on European statistics and repealing Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1101/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the transmission of data subject to statistical confidentiality to the Statistical Office of the European Communities, Council Regulation (EC) No 322/97 on Community Statistics, and Council Decision 89/382/EEC, Euratom establishing a Committee on the Statistical Programmes of the European Communities

At national level:

• Law on official statistics 29th June 1995 : 

  https://bip.stat.gov.pl/en/law/law-on-public-statistics/

Published data should not allow identification of single consumers.

Statistical data obtained in statistical surveys that can be linked and identified as data concerning a specific natural person, as well as information and statistical data characterising economic and financial results of national economy entities conducting economic activity, may not be published nor made available if the given aggregation consists of fewer than three entities or the share of one entity in a given compilation is greater than three-fourths of the whole.

The data shall be used exclusively for statistical calculations, compilations and analyses (statistical confidentiality - https://bip.stat.gov.pl/en/law/law-on-public-statistics/, art. 10 and art. 38).

Deadlines for the provision of publication “Statystyka Elektroenergetyki Polskiej” - “Polish Power Industry Statistics“ , folders: "Energetyka Polska" - "Energy in Poland" and “Energia 2020“ - “Energy 2020“ and “Energia 2021“ - “Energy 2021“ (in which data relating to electricity prices are published) are set out in the Statistical Survey Program of Public Statistics and are submitted to Statistics Poland for inclusion in a calendar posted on Statistics Poland website.

Statistics Poland release calendar:

For 2020: https://stat.gov.pl/kalendarium/12-2020.html

For 2021: https://stat.gov.pl/kalendarium/12-2021.html

The scope and dates regarding the release of statistics are included in the annual Programme of Statistical Surveyes of Public Statistics.

https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU20200002062 (for 2021).

Electricity prices in Poland are published on a semestrial  basis on Eurostat's website and in annual publications.

No news release on national data.

Statystyka Elektroenergetyki Polskiej" - "Polish Power Industry Statistics" (is included in the sale offer), in "Energetyka Polska" - "Energy in Poland" (is available online):https://www.gov.pl/web/klimat/badania-statystyczne and in "Energia 2020" - "Energy 2020"  (is available online): https://stat.gov.pl/obszary-tematyczne/srodowisko-energia/energia/energia-2020-folder,1,8.htmland in "Energia 2021" - "Energy 2021"  (is available online): https://stat.gov.pl/obszary-tematyczne/srodowisko-energia/energia/energia-2021-folder,1,9.html

No national database related to the data.

Not applicable.

No access to microdata is given.

It is possible to prepare a data set for an individual user's order.

Two documents have been developed: questionnaire and instruction, which are consulted with respondents each year.

Public methodological instructions for statistical surveys have been developed and every year are updated and supplemented.

Questionnaires and instructions are available on websites:

https://www.are.waw.pl/images/badania-statystyczne/2019/G-11.e-for-2019.pdf

https://www.are.waw.pl/images/badania-statystyczne/2019/G-11.e-obj-2019.pdf

https://www.are.waw.pl/images/badania-statystyczne/2020/G-11e-for-2020.pdf

https://www.are.waw.pl/images/badania-statystyczne/2020/G-11e-obj-2020.pdf

https://www.are.waw.pl/images/badania-statystyczne/2021/G-11e-for-2021.pdf

https://www.are.waw.pl/images/badania-statystyczne/2021/G-11e-obj-2021.pdf

and on the Statistics Poland website:  http://form.stat.gov.pl/formaty/zestaw.php?rok-pbssp=2019&idzst=99

100%

There is no quality related documents on national level.

Telephone consultations with respondents of statistical surveys.

Development of supplementary information to methodological instruction for statistical surveys.

Summary data collected in the surveys is of good quality. Data quality has been improved due to the introduction of an additional obligation to report annual data (from 2020).

The main user of the collected data is Eurostat. We do not take into account the needs of other users.

We do not have a survey on the level of user satisfaction.

Basically data is complete.

100%

Generally, we have no random and systematic errors in statistical results.

Possible, though rare, random and systematic errors may result from errors at the survey level. In order to reduce these errors, data verification algorithms have been created at the level of filling in survey forms.

Sampling errors are negligible because of the high percentage of the population that is covered by the surveys.

Information is included in the sub-concepts S.13.3.1-S.13.3.5.

Poland is not aware of any coverage error.

Poland is not aware of any over-coverage error.

Administrative sources are not used. 100% data is covered by surveys.

Measurement errors may result from the fact, that sometimes respondents have problems with classifying the end user to the appropriate band defined by range of annually consumption.
After analyzing the errors provided by the verification algorithms, problems are solved by phone consultations with reporting units. The annual report survey (introduced in 2020) makes it easier for the respondents to qualify end-users to the appropriate consumption groups.

Non-response errors result from the fact that in the given reporting period some reporting units have no end-users.
To confirm the absence of end-users, comparisons are made with other survey.

2019: 0,197 - this rate concerns units didn't deliver any data.

2020: 0,101 - this rate concerns units didn't deliver any data.

2021:  0,114 - this rate concerns units didn't deliver any data.

0 - data from units which filled up survey were complete.

Errors are eliminated at the level of survey.

Not applicable.

Electricity providers that participate in the national data collection are requested to provide the electricity price data within 4 weeks after the reference period. After arrival, the statistical office checks the micro-data for correctness, consistency and completeness and national averages are calculated and reported to Eurostat during the third month after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households and non-households for the 1st semester of 2019 was sent 79 days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 2nd semester of 2019 was sent 92 days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2019 was sent 85 days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households and non-householdsfor the 1st semester of 2020 was sent 87 days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 2nd semester of 2020 was sent 88 days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2020 was sent 85 days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households the 1st semester of 2021 was sent 77 days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households the 1st semester of 2021 was sent 91 days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 2nd semester of 2021 was sent 88 days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2021 was sent 89 days after the reference period.

Final version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 1nd semester of 2019 was sent 274 days after the reference period, 195 days after the first version,  and 182 day(s) after the mandatory deadline.

Final version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 1nd semester of 2019 was sent 274 days after the reference period, 195 days after the first version and 182 day(s) after the mandatory deadline.

Final version of the electricity price questionnaire for households and for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2019 was the same as first version.

Final version of the electricity price questionnaire for households  for the 1nd semester of 2020 was the same as first version.

Final version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 1nd semester of 2020 was sent 269 days after the reference period, 182 days after the first version and 177 day(s) after the mandatory deadline.

Final version of the electricity price questionnaire for households and for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2020 was the same as first version.

Final version of the electricity price questionnaire for households  for the 1nd semester of 2021 was the same as first version.

Final version of the electricity price questionnaire for  non-households for the 1nd semester of 2021 was sent 266 days after the reference period, 175 days after the first version and 174 day(s) after the mandatory deadline.

Final version of the electricity price questionnaire for households and for non-households  for the 2nd semester of 2021 was the same as first version.

The time lag for final results happens when a large reporting unit introduces a correction of data, which was correct from the point of view of verification algorithms.

If a large unit does it, we decide to recalculate the national data and send the new version to Eurostat.

The legal deadline for submitting the questionnaires is the third month after the reference period.

92% of questionnaires (1st version) were delivered on time. The delay is the time between submitting the questionnaires (not exceeding the deadline) and sending it to Eurostat.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households and non-households for the 1st ad 2nd semester of 2019-2021 were sent on time except 2nd semester for households which was send 2 days after the deadline.

The delay is the time between completion the questionnaire and sending them to Eurostat. Many providers are late sending data for various reasons. After completing all reports, we perform initial data verification. In the event of any errors, we notify the supplier who, after consultation, makes the necessary corrections. The next verification takes place after we calculate the average prices for the country, which also delays obtaining final results. It may happen that the finished final results obtained are not immediately sent to Eurostat by a person operating the edamis system, for example with a delay of 1-2 days. We will try to prevent such situations in the future.

The data is consistent at the country level.

Not applicable.

The data is comparable

Not applicable.

Annual prices are consistent with semi-annual data.

Not applicable.

Annual prices are consistent with semi-annual data.

Possible exceptions may result from accounting errors.

Cost for production of Statistical data was: 102 541 PLN in 2019 and 122 780 PLN in 2020 and 126 799 PLN in 2021. 

The average time load of one respondent of main survey (G-11e) was 744 min in 2019 and 1340 min in 2020 and 1214 min in 2021.

The semester 1 data are revised when submitting the semester 2 data for consistency reason between semestrial and annual prices.

The collected annual data make it possible to verify the data for the 1st and 2nd semester.

Annual prices calculated as a weighted average of prices derived from the semi-annual reports are compared with the prices reported in the annual report.

1. Revision data by comparing with data from previous reference period,

2. Revision data to ensure consistency of annual data with data from both semesters,

3. Revision data in case of some changes (in source data, in methodology of calculation).

Final (2) revision of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 1st semester of 2019 was sent 195 days after the first version

Final (3) revision of the electricity price questionnaire for non- households for the 1st semester of 2019 was sent 195 days after the first version

Final (1) revision of the electricity price questionnaire for non- households for the 1st semester of 2020 was sent 182 days after the first version

Final (1) revision of the electricity price questionnaire for non- households for the 1st semester of 2021 was sent 175 days after the first version

For other periods final versions was the same as first's.

Household electricity prices collection: 1.02006E-05

Non-household electricity prices collection: 0.000150419

Statistical surveys: G-11e, G-10.4(Ob)k, G-10.4(D)k, G-10.1k.

Semiannually, quarterly.

On-line survey:

https://www.are.waw.pl/images/badania-statystyczne/2019/G-11.e-for-2019.pdf

https://www.are.waw.pl/images/badania-statystyczne/2020/G-11e-for-2020.pdf

https://www.are.waw.pl/images/badania-statystyczne/2021/G-11e-for-2021.pdf

Comparing year to year, semester to semester, comparing with other questionnaires.

Weighted average national electricity prices are calculated using the market shares of electricity suppliers surveyed as weighting factors.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Seasonable adjustments are not carried out.