2025-09-12 20:10
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2025-09-12 20:10
On Friday, the Sejm adopted the Act on heating voucher and freezing of electricity prices for households in the fourth quarter of 2025 at the level of PLN 500 per MWH net.
410 deputies voted for the law, one was against and 19 abstained. Now the Act on a heating voucher and amending certain laws to reduce the prices of electricity height will go to the Senate.
The heating voucher is to be support for households using system heat in the second half of 2025 and in all 2026. The voucher will be awarded on the basis of income criteria. Households will receive it, which: they reach a monthly income equal to or lower than PLN 3,272.69 in the case of single farms; They reach an income equal to or lower than PLN 2454.52 per person in the case of multiplayer. In addition, these farms will have to use the system heat supplied by the energy company and pay for heat above PLN 170/GJ.
The “zloty for PLN” will apply – So the voucher will be granted even after exceeding the income criterion, but its amount will be reduced by the amount of this exceeding. The minimum voucher amount is PLN 20; Below this amount, the voucher will not be paid.
The heating voucher will be awarded twice: for the period from July 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025 (once) in the amount of PLN 500 – when the heat price is higher than PLN 170/GJ and not higher than PLN 200/GJ; in the amount of PLN 1,000 – when the heat price is higher than PLN 200/GJ and not higher than PLN 230/GJ; in the amount of PLN 1,750 – when the heat price is higher than PLN 230/GJ.
In turn, for the period from January 1, 2026 to December 31, 2026, the voucher will be awarded once in the amount of PLN 1,000 – when the heat price is higher than PLN 170/GJ and not higher than PLN 200/GJ; PLN 2,000 – when the heat price is higher than PLN 200/GJ and not higher than PLN 230/GJ; in the amount of PLN 3,500 – when the heat price is higher than PLN 230/GJ.
The government estimates that the total cost of functioning of the heating voucher by the end of 2026 will amount to PLN 889.4 million.
The Act also provides an extension by the end of 2025. The currently applicable right to use by households From the frozen electricity price at PLN 500 per mWh net. Minister of Energy Miłosz Motyk recently assessed that the extension of the right to a frozen power price for 2026 will not be necessary.
The provision on the extension of the possibility of using the frozen price was previously in the distance act, containing regulations for the construction of wind turbines. The act was vetoed by President Karol Nawrocki, who submitted to the Sejm a draft law extending the freezing of electricity prices. It contains exactly the same provisions that were in the vest.
Quoted in a statement of energy ministry, the Minister of Energy Miłosz Motyk emphasized that In addition to intervention activities, i.e. freezing energy prices, the government is also conducted by systemic activities.
“We will do everything to ensure that from the new year the price of electricity in the tariff drops below PLN 500/MWh. It will be the real effect of our rule. Energy transformation is an introduction to the system an increasing number of stable and cheap energy sources. The goal of our activities is to reduce energy and heat costs in the long run,” Motyk declared.
The provision on the extension of the possibility of using the frozen price was previously in the distance act, containing regulations for the construction of wind turbines. The act was vetoed by President Karol Nawrocki, who submitted to the Sejm a draft law extending the freezing of electricity prices. It contains exactly the same provisions that were in the vest.
WKR/ Mick/ Drag/
