Polish Power Grid (PSE) has published information on electricity production and consumption in Poland in September 2023 and the same data for the first nine months of 2023. They show that in September 2023, coal-fired power plants produced 8 % less and lignite-fired power plants almost 26 % less electricity than in the same period of 2022.

Cumulatively in January-September 2023, domestic consumption fell by 4.61 % year-on-year to 123 TWh.

According to PSE, total electricity production fell by 4.19% y-o-y to 12.94 TWh in September. In January-September 2023, production fell by 8.84% y/y to 118.91 TWh.

In September 2023, public thermal power plants produced 6.35 TWh of electricity from hard coal (down 8.32% y-o-y), 2.88 TWh from lignite (down 25.85% y-o-y), 0.57 TWh from gas-fired power plants (up 13.87%), 1.22 TWh from wind power plants (up 11.62% y-o-y), and 1.71 TWh from other renewables (up 87.16%).

In January-September 2023, 55.19 TWh of electricity was produced from hard coal (down 13.45% y-o-y), 25.67 TWh from lignite (down 27.81% y-o-y) and 9.48 TWh in gas-fired power plants (up 30.21%), 14.07 TWh in wind power plants (up 3.68% y-o-y) and 11.78 TWh in other renewables (up 45.37%).

Polish Power Grid is a strategic energy company owned by the State Treasury. PSE’s task is to balance the power system, i.e. to ensure that the electricity needed by consumers throughout the country is supplied to them, regardless of the time of day or year.

PSE is the operator of the electricity transmission system in Poland. They own more than 14,000 km of lines and more than 100 extra-high voltage substations.

Adrian Andrzejewski