Renewable energy fee increase: From January 1, 2025, the fee for renewable energy sources will be: PLN 3.50/MWh. For comparison, in 2023-2024 the rate was kept at the same level 0 PLNand the highest was in 2017 (PLN 3.70/MWh). The Energy Regulatory Office (URE) explained that in the future the fee will support the production of energy in offshore wind farms and biomethane in renewable energy installations fed into the gas network. It will also be a source of funds for the planned operational support systems for existing renewable energy installations.
How does the Energy Regulatory Office calculate the renewable energy fee? When determining the renewable energy fee rate for 2025, the Office took into account the need to finance further production capacities using renewable energy sources, which are covered by support systems; high level inflation in 2022-2023 (14.40% and 11.40%, respectively), affecting the amount prices being the basis for settling the negative balance, which are subject to annual assessment valorization the average annual price index of consumer goods and services from the previous calendar year and the development of index prices TGeBase and the resulting negative balance.
What is the renewable energy fee? This is one of the items on your electricity bill listed in the distribution section. Valid from July 2016. under the provisions of the Renewable Energy Sources Act adopted a year earlier. The purpose of its introduction was to support the production of electricity from renewable sources and the functioning of mechanisms that help ensure appropriately high shares of “green energy” in the national energy mix.
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Source: Energy Regulatory Office