The seventh main auction in the Polish capacity market took place in 2022, and covered the delivery year 2027. It resulted in a total of 95 capacity agreements, including 17 capacity agreements for more than one year.
RESULTS ─ Market
The results of our actions
- 99.99 percent ─ (defines reliability of power supply to all consumers connected to the transmission grid).
- 100% ─ failure-free functioning of the balancing market.
- 0 (zero) ─ balancing market emergency procedures applied.
- 138 balancing market participants in 2022.
- Overview of cross-border exchange transmission capacity offered by PSE in 2022:
The transmission capacity made available in the annual auction:
- synchronous profile
• export: 0 GWh,
• import: 0 GWh;
The transmission capacity made available in the monthly auction:
- synchronous profile
• export: 0 GWh,
• import: 101 GWh; - connection with Ukraine using Zamość–Dobrotvir line (the auctions concern only the import direction)
• import: 1 789 GWh.
Inter-system exchange day-ahead market transmission capacity made available:
- synchronous profile1
• export: 6 226 GWh,
• import: 4 834 GWh; - LitPol Link connection with Lithuania
• export:4 272 GWh,
• import: 4 310 GWh;
- SwePol Link connection with Sweden
• eksport: 4 570 GWh,
• import: 4 520 GWh; - common allocation constraints
• export: 10 540 GWh,
• import: 22 469 GWh.
Inter-system exchange intra-day market transmission capacity made available:
- intra-day market single coupling process
- Polska – Czechy
• export: 1 194 GWh,
• import: 1 996 GWh; - Poland – Slovakia2
• export: 62 GWh,
• import: 267 GWh; - Poland – Germany
• export: 1 391 GWh,
• import: 2 065 GWh; - Poland – Lithuania
• export: 1 741 GWh,
• import: 2 454 GWh; - Poland – Sweden
• export: 1 428 GWh,
• import: 404 GWh; - common allocation constraints
• eksport: 1 482 GWh,
• import: 4 252 GWh; -
intra-day explicit allocation process
- Poand – Slovakia3
• export: 10 GWh,
• import: 336 GWh;
Volume of cross-border exchange (in GWh) 4) in 2022:
- pararrel exchange (synchronous profile):
• export: 9701 GWh,
• import: 2917 GWh; - non-parallel exchange - LitPol Link connection with Lithuania:
• export: 1087 GWh,
• import: 1871 GWh; - non-parallel exchange - LitPol Link connection with Sweden:
• export: 218 GWh,
• import: 4043 GWh; - non-parallel exchange – connection with Ukraine using Zamość–Dobrotvir line (the trade concerns only the import direction):
• import: 1080 GWh;
1 Data for the period from January 1, 2022 to June 8, 2022, when transmission capacity was determined according to the NTC method. Since June 9, 2022, the CORE region has had a mechanism in place that uses a flow-based capacity calculation method.
2 Data for the period from November 30, 2022 to December 31, 2022, when transmission capacity on the connection with Slovakia was made available as part of the SIDC process.
3 Data for the period from January 1, 2022 to November 29, 2022, when transmission capacity on the connection with Slovakia was made available under explicit allocation
4 The values were determined as the sum of cross-border trade from the agreed nominations from the annual, monthly, daily and intra-day market horizons. The figures listed do not take into account the remedies agreed as part of the inter-operator exchange and exchange over 110 kV lines.
Delivery year |
Auction closing price (in PLN/kW/year) |
Number of concluded capacity agreements |
Volume of capacity obligations under the capacity agreements concluded, MW |
Auction closing round |
2027 |
406.35 |
95 |
5,379.156 |
1. |
Tab. 1. Summary of the main auction conducted in 2022.
As a result of the additional auctions in the Polish capacity market held in 2022 for the individual quarters of the 2023 delivery year, a total of 163 capacity agreements were concluded.
Quarter of the year 2023 |
Auction closing price [PLN/kW/year] |
Number of concluded capacity agreements |
Volume of capacity obligations under the concluded capacity agreements [MW] |
Auction closing round |
I |
333.68 |
48 |
1254.185 |
1. |
II |
190.00 |
32 |
488.506 |
6. |
III |
212.40 |
29 |
435.256 |
5. |
IV |
364.00 |
50 |
1226.563 |
1. |
Tab. 2. Summary of supplementary auctions conducted in 2022.
- Number of suppliers with which PSE concluded contracts on the provision of contingency reduction of power consumption by consumers based on a bidding process (IRP) in 2022:
- 6 – in the period of April 1, 2021-March 31, 2022,
- 5 – in the period of April 1, 2022-March 31, 2023.
In March 2023 PSE announced a call for applications for the IRP Supplier Qualification System offer for the period from April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2024.