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3.1. Data description
European statistics on electricity prices for household and final non-household customers.
3.2. Classification system
Internal Eurostat classification system based on annual electricity consumption bands and tax levels.
3.3. Coverage - sector
Household sector and final non-household sector (industry, services, offices, agriculture, etc).
3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions
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:
Band
Name of the tax
component in which it is reported
Recoverable portion of the component
IA-IG
Value Added Tax (VAT)
Value Added Tax
Fully recoverable for industrial users
IE-IG
Excise tax
Environmental taxes
Energy intensive consumers get excise tax reductions,
this tax is for them partially refundable
In the table below are the taxes reported in "All other taxes".
Band
Name of the tax
All bands
mainly concession fees relating to licences and fees for the occupation of land
3.5. Statistical unit
Household and final non-household consumers divided into consumption bands.
3.6. Statistical population
2022:
Household customers: Data coming from 62 suppliers out of 70 and representing 88,57% of the household customers.
Final non-household customers: Data coming from 62 suppliers out of 70 and representing 88,57% of the final non-household customers.
2023:
Household customers: Data coming from 62 suppliers out of 71 and representing 87,32% of the household customers.
Final non-household customers: Data coming from 62 suppliers out of 71 and representing 87,32% of the final non-household customers.
2024:
Household customers: Data coming from 54 suppliers out of 61 and representing 88,52% of the household customers.
Final non-household customers: Data coming from 54 suppliers out of 61 and representing 88,52% of the final non-household customers.
3.7. Reference area
The reference area is the whole country. There is no regions excluded from the surveys.
3.8. Coverage - Time
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.
3.9. Base period
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).
6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements
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:(for 2022), (for 2023), (for 2024)
Continuation of the Government's Anti-Inflation Shield 2.0 extending, among other things, the 5% VAT reduction for electricity , Law of January 13, 2022 on amendments to the Law on Value Added Tax, (for 2022)
Law of October 7, 2022 on special solutions to protect electricity consumers in 2023 and in 2024 in connection with the situation in the electricity market; (for 2023), (for 2024)
Law of October 27, 2022 on emergency measures to limit the amount of electricity prices and support certain consumers in 2023-2025; (for 2023), (for 2024)
ACT of May 23, 2024 on the energy voucher and on the amendment of certain laws to limit the prices of electricity, natural gas and system heat, (for 2024)
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": (for 2022), (for 2023), (for 2024) and in "Energia 2023" - "Energy 2023"(for 2022), in "Energia 2024" - "Energy 2024" (for 2023)and in "Energia 2025" - "Energy 2025" (for 2024)
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
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 - Law on official statistics 29th June 1995, art. 10 and art. 38).
8.1. Release calendar
Deadlines for the provision of publication “Statystyka Elektroenergetyki Polskiej” - “Polish Power Industry Statistics“ , folders: "Energetyka Polska" - "Energy in Poland" and “Energia 2023“ - “Energy 2023“, “Energia 2024“-“Energy 2024“ and "Energia 2025"- “Energy 2025“(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.
"Energy 2023"-Folder containing basic information on the production and use of fuel, heat and electricity in 2022 in Poland".
"Energy 2024"-Folder containing basic information on the production and use of fuel, heat and electricity in 2023 in Poland".
"Energy 2025"-Folder containing basic information on the production and use of fuel, heat and electricity in 2024 in Poland".
The scope and dates regarding the release of statistics are included in the annual Programme of Statistical Surveyes of Public Statistics:(for 2022), (for 2023), (for 2024)
It is possible to prepare a data set for an individual user's order.
10.5.1. Metadata - consultations
Two documents have been developed: questionnaire and instruction, which are consulted with respondents each year.
10.6. Documentation on methodology
Public methodological instructions for statistical surveys (g-11.e) have been developed and every year are updated and supplemented- (for 2023), (for 2024)
Questionnaires and instructions are available on websites:
There is no quality related documents on national level.
11.1. Quality assurance
Telephone consultations with respondents of statistical surveys.
Development of supplementary information to methodological instruction for statistical surveys.
11.2. Quality management - assessment
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).
Data collected through surveys (g-11.e) are compared with quantitative data in other company-level surveys. Data from other surveys are related to electricity prices and consumption.
12.1. Relevance - User Needs
The main user of the collected data is Eurostat. We do not take into account the needs of other users.
12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction
We do not have a survey on the level of user satisfaction.
12.3. Completeness
Basically data is complete.
12.3.1. Data completeness - rate
100%
13.1. Accuracy - overall
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.
13.2. Sampling error
Sampling errors are negligible because of the high percentage of the population that is covered by the surveys.
13.2.1. Sampling error - indicators
It is not used.
13.3. Non-sampling error
Information is included in the sub-concepts S.13.3.1-S.13.3.5.
13.3.1. Coverage error
Poland is not aware of any coverage error.
13.3.1.1. Over-coverage - rate
Poland is not aware of any over-coverage error.
13.3.1.2. Common units - proportion
Administrative sources are not used. 100% data is covered by surveys.
13.3.2. Measurement error
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.
13.3.3. Non response error
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.
13.3.3.1. Unit non-response - rate
2022: 0,114 - this rate concerns units didn't deliver any data.
2023: 0,127 - this rate concerns units didn't deliver any data.
2024: 0,115 - this rate concerns units didn't deliver any data.
13.3.3.2. Item non-response - rate
0 - data from units which filled up survey were complete.
13.3.4. Processing error
Errors are eliminated at the level of survey.
13.3.5. Model assumption error
Not applicable.
14.1. Timeliness
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.
14.1.1. Time lag - first result
The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 1st semester of 2022 was sent 91 days after the reference period.
The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 1st semester of 2022 was sent 91 days after the reference period.
The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 2nd semester of 2022 was sent 89 days after the reference period.
The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2022 was sent 89 days after the reference period.
The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households and non-householdsfor the 1st semester of 2023 was sent 87 days after the reference period.
The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households and non-householdsfor the 1st semester of 2023 was sent 87 days after the reference period.
The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 2nd semester of 2023 was sent 88 days after the reference period.
The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2023 was sent 88 days after the reference period.
The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households the 1st semester of 2024 was sent 93 days after the reference period.
The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households the 1st semester of 2024 was sent 93 days after the reference period.
The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 2nd semester of 2024 was sent 89 days after the reference period.
The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2024 was sent 89 days after the reference period.
14.1.2. Time lag - final result
Final version of the electricity price questionnaire for households and for non-households for the 1st semester of 2022 was the same as first version.
Final version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households and for non-households for the 1st semester of 2022 was the same as first version.
Final version of the electricity price questionnaire for households and for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2022 was the same as first version.
Final version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households and for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2022 was the same as first version.
Final version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 1st semester of 2023 was sent 272 days after the reference period, 185 days after the first version, and 181 day(s) after the mandatory deadline.
Final version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 1st semester of 2023 was sent 272 days after the reference period, 185 days after the first version and 181 day(s) after the mandatory deadline.
Final version of the electricity price questionnaire for households and for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2023 was the same as first version.
Final version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 1st semester of 2024 was the same as first version.
Final version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 1st semester of 2024 was sent 97 days after the reference period, 8 days after the first version and 8 day(s) after the mandatory deadline.
Final version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 2nd semester of 2024 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 correction of the data for the first half of the year while sending the data for the second half of the year results from the incorrect classification of end recipients in the first half of the year.
14.2. Punctuality
The legal deadline for submitting the questionnaires is the third month after the reference period.
83,3% 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.
14.2.1. Punctuality - delivery and publication
The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households and non-households for the 1st ad 2nd semester of 2022-2024 were sent on time except 1st semester 2024 for households and non-hauseholds 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.
15.1. Comparability - geographical
The data is consistent at the country level.
15.1.1. Asymmetry for mirror flow statistics - coefficient
Not applicable.
15.2. Comparability - over time
Data in subsequent reporting periods are comparable.
15.2.1. Length of comparable time series
The data is comparable
15.3. Coherence - cross domain
Not applicable.
15.3.1. Coherence - sub annual and annual statistics
Annual prices are consistent with semi-annual data.
15.3.2. Coherence - National Accounts
Not applicable.
15.4. Coherence - internal
Annual prices are consistent with semi-annual data.
Possible exceptions may result from accounting errors.
Cost for production of Statistical data was: 144 302 PLN in 2022 and 160 752 PLN in 2023 and 166 539 PLN in 2024.
The average time load of one respondent of main survey (G-11e) was 898 min in 2022 and 867 min in 2023 and 1025 min in 2024.
17.1. Data revision - policy
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.
17.2. Data revision - practice
Revision data by comparing with data from previous reference period,
Revision data to ensure consistency of annual data with data from both semesters,
Revision data in case of some changes (in source data, in methodology of calculation).
17.2.1. Data revision - average size
Final revision of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 1st semester of 2023 was sent 185 days after the first version.
Final revision of the electricity price questionnaire for non- households for the 1st semester of 2023 was sent 185 days after the first version.
Final revision of the electricity price questionnaire for non- households for the 1st semester of 2024 was sent 8 day after the first version.
For other periods final versions was the same as first's.
Comparing year to year, semester to semester, comparing with other questionnaires.
18.5. Data compilation
Weighted average national electricity prices are calculated using the market shares of electricity suppliers surveyed as weighting factors.
18.5.1. Imputation - rate
Not applicable.
18.6. Adjustment
Not applicable.
18.6.1. Seasonal adjustment
Seasonable adjustments are not carried out.
No comments.
European statistics on electricity prices for household and final non-household customers.
26 June 2025
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:
Band
Name of the tax
component in which it is reported
Recoverable portion of the component
IA-IG
Value Added Tax (VAT)
Value Added Tax
Fully recoverable for industrial users
IE-IG
Excise tax
Environmental taxes
Energy intensive consumers get excise tax reductions,
this tax is for them partially refundable
In the table below are the taxes reported in "All other taxes".
Band
Name of the tax
All bands
mainly concession fees relating to licences and fees for the occupation of land
Household and final non-household consumers divided into consumption bands.
2022:
Household customers: Data coming from 62 suppliers out of 70 and representing 88,57% of the household customers.
Final non-household customers: Data coming from 62 suppliers out of 70 and representing 88,57% of the final non-household customers.
2023:
Household customers: Data coming from 62 suppliers out of 71 and representing 87,32% of the household customers.
Final non-household customers: Data coming from 62 suppliers out of 71 and representing 87,32% of the final non-household customers.
2024:
Household customers: Data coming from 54 suppliers out of 61 and representing 88,52% of the household customers.
Final non-household customers: Data coming from 54 suppliers out of 61 and representing 88,52% of the final non-household customers.
The reference area is the whole country. There is no regions excluded from the surveys.
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).
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.
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.
Weighted average national electricity prices are calculated using the market shares of electricity suppliers surveyed as weighting factors.
Electricity prices in Poland are published on a semestrial basis on Eurostat's website and in annual publications.
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 data is consistent at the country level.
Data in subsequent reporting periods are comparable.
