Poland is accelerating the expansion of its energy infrastructure to meet climate and industrial transformation goals, with officials warning that the current pace of development is insufficient for the scale of change required.
Dorota Jezierowska, director of the Bureau for Strategic Energy Infrastructure at Poland’s Ministry of Energy, said on Friday that the country’s transmission and distribution networks must expand significantly in the coming years. Under an optimistic scenario, Poland plans to spend over 440 billion złoty (about €95 billion) by 2040, including more than 330 billion złoty on distribution networks and over 100 billion złoty on transmission systems, she said during a debate at Energy Days in Katowice .
The buildout aims to support renewable energy growth, reserve power sources, and future nuclear plants, with distributed energy capacity projected to reach nearly 90 GW by 2030 and approach 100 GW by 2035. Wojciech Tabiś, president of the Agency for Energy Regulation, emphasized that energy prices must remain optimal to sustain economic growth, noting that the current "copper plate" market model fails to provide clear signals for new investments in generation, storage, or peak capacity. He added that system stability responsibility remains concentrated in Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne, which he argued cannot continue under the existing framework .
