A delay by three months, until October 1, 2025, the entry into force of new electricity tariffs for households – provides the amendment to the Act adopted on Wednesday by the Sejm. According to the climate ministry, the new regulations will reduce electricity prices after the maximum price expires.
416 voted in favor of adopting the law, no one was against, 16 deputies abstained. Now the amendment to the Act on special solutions to protect electricity consumers in 2023 and in 2024 in connection with the situation on the electricity market, will go to the Senate.
The new regulations provide for the shift of the beginning of the changed tariffs to electricity to October 1 this year. The current provisions assume that sellers ex officio are to submit applications to the President of the Energy Regulatory Office to change the tariffs by April 30, and they would enter into force from July 1. The amendment to the act will give them time to submit tariff applications by July 31.
“The situation indicates a downward trend”
During the first reading at the Energy Committee meeting, two amendments were adopted to the act – both clarifying nature. The commission recommended the adoption of the law along with these two amendments.
Deputy Minister of the Climate and Environment Miłosz Motyk argued that the new law would reduce electricity prices. – In the practice of the recipients, the tariff changes will notice in the fourth quarter after the maximum price expires, and therefore the level of reduction in the tariffs (…) The market situation indicates a downward trend – he said.
He pointed out that energy prices on the wholesale market are already at the level of PLN 400-500 per MWh, i.e. they are lower than the frozen ones. According to Motyka, the delay in the entry into force of new tariffs will allow energy companies to better “discount” the reductions that are on the market, which in turn is to translate into favor of households.
PiS talks about “election sausage”
According to current regulations, by the end of September 2025, households have the right to use electricity pricesfrozen at the level of PLN 500 per MWh. The government has not yet decided whether it will extend the maintenance of the frozen price.
On Wednesday, the second reading of the draft amendment also took place in the Sejm. PiS MP Marek Suski He called her “election sausage”. He pointed out, among others to the shortened legislative process.
MP rapporteur from Poland 2050-TD Rafał Komarewicz explained that the point is to give longer to energy companies to observe what the trend for energy prices is.
– We see that wholesale energy prices have been falling for some time and the government reacts to this (…), because most likely at the end of July, when information and offers on energy prices will be submitted, this energy will be cheaper than it is now, so it is benefit for the individual recipient (…) – he said. Komarewicz emphasized that it is not a “election sausage” but a normal action. – The Ministry (Ministry of Climate and Environment – PAP) fulfills its duties. Of course, the question is whether in the fourth quarter of this year, if it turns out that prices will be high, as the government will react to these energy prices, or whether this energy price will not be freezed again, but this is not the subject of this act – he noted.
Left MP Dariusz Wieczorek, appealed to strengthen the position of the Energy Regulatory Office so that he could look at the hands of energy companies, so that they were watching over their costs taken into account when calculating tariffs for electricity. – That energy companies would not do various strange things at the expense of recipients – said Wieczorek.
According to current regulations, by the end of September 2025, households have the right to use electricity prices, frozen at the level of PLN 500 per MWh.Shutterstock
PiS MP Maria Koc pointed out that the increase in energy prices is largely influenced by fees under the ETS system (purchase of carbon dioxide emissions – editor's note) and the government should do something about it. MPs KOs accused the previous PiS rule of “eating” funds from the ETS system.
During the discussion, MPs also pointed out that entrepreneurs should be able to renegotiate energy prices annually. They asked why the government did not introduce a shielding shield for entrepreneurs.
Deputy Minister of the Climate and Environment Miłosz Motyk, answering the questions of MPs, pointed out that the draft amendment is not freezing prices, but adapting them to what is on the markets.
– If it is cheaper on the market, then our responsibility is to react to it. It would be a sin of omission if we did not give impulse to energy entrepreneurs to make these prices lower – said Motyk in the Sejm. “Nothing will change in the bills by the end of September,” he assured.
Assumptions of the Act
In justification for the draft amendment, it was indicated that it assumes a change in art. 51b of the Act consisting in the shortening of the affected tariffs for electricity from the second half of 2025 to the 4th quarter of 2025. It was emphasized that this solution would not affect the deterioration of the situation of households in the July – September 2025, because in accordance with currently functioning cover mechanisms of households until September 30, 2025. Electrical according to the maximum price of PLN 500/MWh – are therefore subject to statutory protection.
“It is assumed that the new tariffs in force during the fourth quarter of 2025 will be a felt support in the field of coping by households with electricity bills, and the price in these tariffs will be significantly lower than the currently binding, which is on average about PLN 622.8/MWh” – added in justification.
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