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 is not physically interconnected to Great Britain, so it is 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.

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    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.

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    Generation mix over the last 24 hours

      Renewable (wind, solar, hydro, biomass), nuclear, fossil and other, from the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform.

      Poland and its neighbours right now

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      History

      Choose a time range to see real recorded demand, generation and day-ahead price over time, from the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform.

      Long-term history

      Electricity generated each year, by source, from the country's official yearly statistics.

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      About the Polish grid

      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 is included on this site purely for cross-country comparison via the Comparisons page, not because of any GB grid relationship.

      Records & context

      Records & context

      • Record demand29.2GW gross (27.6GW net) - 9 January 2026, 11.45am, amid a severe cold spell
      • Solar output record14,565MW - 20 May 2026, 11.45am
      • Renewable share of generationRecord 31.4% in 2025 - the first time above 30% (30.7% in 2024)
      • Renewables share of installed capacityPassed 50% for the first time at the end of 2025
      • Coal share of generation~52% in 2025 (hard coal and lignite combined)
      • First offshore wind powerBaltic Power, 10 July 2026

      Approximate renewable share of generation by year (2024-2025 from Forum Energii) - passing 30% for the first time in 2025.

      Sources: PSE (demand record), WNP.pl (PSE solar record), Ministry of Climate (gov.pl), Forum Energii, ORLEN (Baltic Power). Last checked: 2 October 2026.

      Data sources for Poland

      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 do not 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 is not set or ingestion has not run yet.

      Two figures are not shown on this page at all: ENTSO-E does not publish emissions intensity (g/kWh), and its generation-per-type data does not include cross-border physical flow, so rather than show a permanently illustrative placeholder for either, they are left out until a real source exists. See the sitewide data sources page for how this compares to the other pages.