Poland: the live status of the Polish electricity grid
Poland's grid, operated by transmission system operator PSE, still relies on coal for roughly half its generation - more than almost any other European grid - though wind and solar have pushed renewables to a record share of output in recent years. Poland connected its first offshore wind farm, Baltic Power in the Baltic Sea, to the grid in July 2026, alongside a fast-growing onshore wind and solar fleet. It isn't physically interconnected to Great Britain, so it's included here for comparison rather than as one of GB's own interconnector partners. Demand, generation, day-ahead price and generation mix below are live from the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform.
- Data as of
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- Day-ahead price
- €72.00/MWh
- Demand
- 20.0GW
- Generation
- 19.0GW
Illustrative figures in the rough range of Poland's actual totals, not a live reading. Each figure shows an illustrative trend over the last 3 hours.
Generation mix right now
Illustrative figures - see data sources.
| Source | GW | % |
|---|---|---|
| Fossil fuels | 12.4 | 65.3 |
| Coal (hard coal & lignite) | 9.9 | 52.1 |
| Gas | 2.5 | 13.2 |
| Renewables | 5.5 | 28.9 |
| Wind | 2.7 | 14.2 |
| Solar | 2.3 | 12.1 |
| Hydro & biomass | 0.5 | 2.6 |
| Other & storage (net imports) | 1.1 | 5.8 |
Coal remains by far Poland's largest single source, though wind and solar have driven renewables to a record share of generation in recent years.
Generation by source right now, ranked highest to lowest.
Generation mix over the last 24 hours
Renewable (wind, solar, hydro, biomass), nuclear, fossil and other, from the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform.
History
Choose a time range to see real recorded demand, generation and day-ahead price over time, from the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform.
Demand
Generation
Day-ahead price
About the Polish grid
PSE (Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne) operates Poland's transmission grid, part of the Continental Europe synchronous area. Poland's generation mix remains the most coal-dependent of any major European grid, with hard coal and lignite together supplying roughly half of output, though onshore wind and a fast-growing solar fleet have pushed renewables to a record share of generation in recent years. Poland has no commercial nuclear power yet - its first plant is planned for the early 2030s.
Poland connects to Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Lithuania (via the LitPol Link) and Sweden (via the subsea SwePol Link), and has no direct electrical interconnector with Great Britain. It's included on this site purely for cross-country comparison via the Comparisons page, not because of any GB grid relationship.
Context
- Renewable share of generation~29.4% in 2025 (record, though nearly flat vs. 2024's 29.0%)
- Coal share of generation~52% in 2025 (hard coal and lignite combined)
- First offshore wind powerBaltic Power delivered its first electricity to the grid in July 2026
- Record electricity demand29.2GW gross, 9 January 2026, amid a severe cold spell
Approximate renewable share of generation by year - growth has slowed since the sharp rise of 2022-2023.
Figures are approximate, gathered from public Fraunhofer ISE/Energy-Charts and PSE reporting rather than a long-run historical feed. Last checked: 19 September 2026.
Data sources for Poland
The Elexon Insights Solution, NESO Data Portal and Carbon Intensity API that power the Great Britain pages are GB-specific and don't cover Poland, so this page draws on a different source instead:
- ENTSO-E Transparency Platform - the pan-European grid data hub, required by EU regulation for every connected transmission system operator to publish to. Powers demand, generation, day-ahead price, the generation mix, the 24-hour mix chart and the History section above, all via Poland's own bidding zone. Requires the site operator's own free API token, obtained through a short registration process - shows "not enough recorded history yet" rather than a placeholder figure if one isn't set or ingestion hasn't run yet.
Two figures aren't shown on this page at all: ENTSO-E doesn't publish emissions intensity (g/kWh), and its generation-per-type data doesn't include cross-border physical flow, so rather than show a permanently illustrative placeholder for either, they're left out until a real source exists. See the sitewide data sources page for how this compares to the other pages.