The eighth main auction in the Polish capacity market took place in 2023 and covered the delivery year 2028. It resulted in a total of 159 capacity contracts, including 40 capacity contracts for more than one year. Only capacity market units meeting the carbon dioxide emission limit of 550 g/kWh were admitted to the auction.
RESULTS - Market
Results of our actions
- 99.99 percent ─ electricity supply continuity index (defines the reliability of power supply to all customers connected to the transmission grid).
- 100 percent ─ failure-free functioning of the balancing market.
- 0 (zero) ─ balancing market emergency procedures applied.
- 147 balancing market participants in 2023.
- Overview of cross-border exchange capacity offered by PSE in 2023:
Transmission capacity made available in the annual auction:
- synchronous profile
- export: 0 GWh,
- import: 0 GWh;
Transmission capacity made available in the monthly auction:
- synchronous profile
- export: 326 GWh,
- import: 0 GWh;
- connection with Ukraine by the Zamość–Dobrotvir line (the auctions concern only the import direction)
- import: 1,610 GWh;
- connection with Ukraine by the Rzeszów–Chmielnicka line
- export: 1,089 GWh,
- import: 309 GWh;
Cross-border day-ahead capacity made available:
- synchronous profile2
- export: not applicable,
- import: not applicable,
- LitPol Link interconnection with Lithuania
- export: 4,268 GWh,
- import: 4,292 GWh;
- SwePol Link interconnection with Sweden
- export: 4,997 GWh,
- import: 4,574 GWh;
- common allocation constraints
- export: 25,859 GWh,
- import: 13,162 GWh;
Cross-border intra-day capacity made available:
- single intra-day market coupling process
- Poland – Czech Republic
- export: 3,677 GWh,
- import: 1,912 GWh;
- Poland – Slovakia.
- export: 2,961 GWh,
- import: 2,836 GWh;
- Poland – Germany
- export: 2,791 GWh,
- import: 1,899 GWh;
- Poland – Lithuania
- export: 1,525 GWh,
- import: 1,581 GWh;
- Poland – Sweden
- export: 1,359 GWh,
- import: 321 GWh,
- common allocation constraints
- export: 2,859 GWh,
- import: 2,638 GWh;
- Poland – Czech Republic
Volume of cross-border exchange (in GWh)3 in 2023:
- parallel exchange (synchronous profile):
- export: 8,127 GWh,
- import: 7,772 GWh;
- non-parallel exchange – LitPol Link interconnection with Lithuania:
- export: 1,138 GWh,
- import: 1,672 GWh;
- non-parallel exchange – SwePol Link interconnection with Sweden:
- export: 359 GWh,
- import: 4,205 GWh;
- non-synchronous exchange – interconnection with Ukraine (Zamość–Dobrotvir line); commercial exchange concerns only the import direction
- import: 37 GWh.
- import: 37 GWh.
2Since 9 June 2022, the CORE region has had a mechanism in place that uses a flow-based capacity calculation method.
3The values were calculated as the sum of cross-border commercial exchanges, from the agreed nominations for the annual, monthly, daily and intra-day market Energy . The figures specified do not take into account the remedial actions agreed as part of the inter-TSO exchange and exchange over 110 kV lines.
Delivery year |
Unit location |
Auction closing price |
Number of capacity agreements concluded |
Capacity obligation volume under the capacity agreements concluded |
Auction closing round |
2028 |
in the NPS |
244.90 |
111 |
5,991.951 |
6. |
synchronous profile zone
|
207.00 | 6 |
628.000 |
||
transmission system of the Kingdom of Sweden
|
244.90 | 42 | 451.000 |
Tab. 1. Summary of the main auction conducted in 2023.
As a result of the additional auctions in the Polish capacity market held in 2023 for the individual quarters of the 2024 delivery year, a total of 254 capacity agreements were concluded.
Quarter of the delivery year 2024 |
Auction closing price (PLN/kW/year) |
Number of capacity agreements concluded |
Capacity obligation volume under the capacity agreements concluded [MW] |
Auction closing round |
I |
387.00 |
70 |
1,766.317 |
1. |
II |
241.92 |
57 |
1,022.195 |
5. |
III |
199.55 |
58 |
1,154.167 |
6. |
IV |
387.00 |
69 |
1,654.317 |
1. |
Tab. 2. Summary of the additional auctions conducted in 2023.
- Number of providers with which PSE concluded contracts on the provision of contingency reduction of power consumption by consumers based on a bidding process (IRP) in 2023:
- 5 between 1 April 2022 and 31 March 2023,
- 6 between 1 April 2023 and 31 December 2023.
Between 1 January 2024 and 31 March 2024, PSE had contracts with 5 IRP service providers to ensure continuity of services, and in March 2024, PSE issued a call for proposals under the IRP Provider Qualification System for the period from 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025. Consequently, as at 13 June 2024, PSE had entered into 5 contracts for the provision of the IRP service for the aforementioned period.