Population	38,12 mln
GDP/Capita PPS	€12 600 (estimated)
Generation	161859 GWh Combustible fuel: 156677 GWh Renewable: 4203,7 GWh
Installed capacity	34 864 MW
Net Electricity Import	2 420 GWh
Net Electricity Export	13434 GWh
Natural Gas Imported	10 102 mln cm (quantity given for calorific values of 39.5MJ/cm)
Natural Gas Consumed	15 488 mln cm (quantity given for calorific values of 39.5MJ/cm)
Natural Gas Domestic Production	4 277 mln cm (quantity given for calorific values of 39.5MJ/cm)

• Generation assets of the electricity sub-sector consist of 57 combined heat and power stations, 20 conventional power stations belonging to 49 entities, and 12 other plants, including hydropower stations.
• 14 main distribution companies. 2 out of 14 are private-owned.
• Until 1^st July 2004 the 100% state owned company PSE SA (Joint-Stock Company) was the TSO, dispatcher and electricity wholesale trader (single buyer for a number of years, then a party of long term power purchase agreements – PPAs).
• As of 1st July 2004 PSE-Operator (Joint-Stock Company) - a daughter company of PSE - commenced activities as an independent transmission system operator and dispatcher. It was a legally unbundled company as required by the Directive 2003/54/EC, operating on the basis of leased network assets.
• As of 1^st January 2007 PSE-Operator’s shares were transferred to the State Treasury (ownership unbundling). However the PSE is still the owner of the transmission grid.
• From the 1^st July 2007 fully market open
• Wholesale trade in electricity on the Polish energy market is based, first of all, on non-standardized bilateral contracts (short and medium-term) and LT PPAs. Comparing to the previous year, sales of electricity within the frames of long-term contracts increased in 2006, comparing to the previous year, by 19,5%, reaching now 37,4% of total sales of system generators.
  

Natural Gas

• In 2003, within the holding structure of Polish Oil & Gas Company (POGC), 6 distribution undertakings were separated. Polish gas transmission system operator – OGP GAZ-SYSTEM S.A. is an ownership unbundled entity, owned in 100% by State Treasury.
• On September 2006, OGP GAZ-SYSTEM was transformed from Ltd company into a Joint-Stock With respect to propriety rights to gas transmission assets, at present about 20% is owned by OGP GAZ-SYSTEM S.A., the rest is owned by dominant market player PGNiG (dealing with gas imports, production and supplying activity).
• Company (according Energy Law requirements)
• In May 2005 the two companies entered into a long-term operational lease agreement in respect of transmission assets, whereby GAZ – SYSTEM will gradually take over the ownership of individual transmission assets from PGNiG SA.
• According to the legal provisions in force, in 2005 the customers authorized to benefit from the right to freely choose a supplier were:
• all customers except households ( About 1,7 mln out of over 6 mln total)
• 0,5% of wholesale market is captured by independent suppliers.

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