The Polish cabinet has approved a draft bill to postpone the liberalisation of household gas prices until the end of 2027 to help Polish customers cope with soaring energy costs, due to the ongoing war in Ukraine and strained relations with Russia. Poland originally planned to liberalise household gas prices in 2024. Poland’s energy regulator (URE) sets tariffs for retail consumers, while prices for enterprises are not regulated.
In January 2022 Poland introduced a mechanism that protects households and public institutions from surging gas prices until the end of 2023, however, with the current crisis and the risk of a prolonged conflict in Ukraine, the country decided that tariff protection was needed until the end of 2027.
Among others, the draft bill also includes plans for more flexible technical requirements for the maintenance of gas stocks, in order to adapt to available gas sources (extending from 40 to 50 days the period during which mandatory stocks of gas should be delivered to the gas system), as well as plans for reducing in the requirements regarding the amount of gas that must be sold through exchanges in 2022 and 2023.
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