Poland energy transition storage boom

In Poland, interest in energy storage investment has been evident for some time. Last year’s main auction of the power market, with capacity delivery for 2029, further bumped up the capacity of storage projects.

The Polish Economic Institute reported that in the power market’s main auction, which was held in December 2024, storage capacity of around 2.5 GW was contracted, indicating that this was a 44 percent increase over 2023, in which the total contracted for batteries was 1.7 GW.

The shift in the structure of electricity generation in Poland towards renewable energy, as the consulting firm EY Poland pointed out in a publication in mid-2024, increases the risk of imbalance in the electricity system, i.e. the occurrence of oversupply or shortages of electricity. According to data from the Energy Market Agency, at the end of November 2024, Poland’s installed capacity was about 20.7 GW, growing year-on-year by almost 28 percent, and the installed capacity of wind power plants was about 10.2 GW, increasing year-on-year by about 8 percent. According to data contained in PSE’s grid development plan for 2025-2034, more than 43 GW of photovoltaics and about 18 GW of onshore wind power, plus gigawatts of offshore wind power, could operate in the NPS in the next 10 years.

Energy storage solutions will likely benefit greatly from these developments as infrastructure will be needed to capture surplus electricity produced during times of high generation from RES and return it to the grid when energy starts to run short.

The Energy Regulatory Office said in a report last year on electricity storage in Poland that, as a result of the main power market auctions for 2021-2028 and the supplementary auctions for 2012-2025, contracts for energy storage with a total capacity of 9.5 GW were concluded.

U.S. Commercial Service recommends that U.S. companies offering battery energy storage systems take a hard look at the Polish market because there will be opportunities for U.S. companies to propose their solutions for many years to come. 

For more information, please contact Commercial Service Poland at office.warsaw@trade.gov.