Uncertainty about future electricity and gas bills hangs over Polish households. The current energy price freeze, which is only due until the end of September, raises concerns about drastic increases. In consequence to these concerns, the Chancellery of the president of the Republic of Poland presented a draft bill which assumes an extension of this cover for the full year 2025. However, as Karol Rabenda, Minister at the President's Chancellery, points out, the future of this solution depends on 1 key condition: whether the Donald Tusk government decides to accept the presidential initiative. The situation is dynamic, and the decision which will take place in the coming weeks will have a direct impact on the finances of millions of Poles, affecting the stableness of home budgets in the face of rising costs of living.
Presidential Project: All-Year Freezing of Energy Census
The presidential bill, already tabled in the Sejm, provides for freezing of electricity, gas and heat prices for the full 2025Not just until the end of September, as the current government solution assumes. Karol Rabenda in an interview at RMF FM made it clear that accepting this proposal is the only way to guarantee price stableness for Poles in the coming year. "If the government does not take offense and Prime Minister Donald Tusk can come back from his leave and does not extend it," said the Minister, "and Parliament will accept the President's proposal to frost energy prices for the full year and not just until September," said the Minister. The Sejm is scheduled to assemble on 9 September, which theoretically gives a chance for a fast adoption of the bill. deficiency of agreement on this would mean many households the request to prepare for much higher accounts, which in the current economical situation is simply a highly undesirable scenario.
The Windmill Act as the Bone of Discord and strategy Stability
The discussion on the freezing of energy prices is inextricably linked to controversy around the alleged Windmill Act. Minister Rabenda stressed that the president does not agree with "legislative tricks", where completely different solutions are attached to the key provisions on electricity prices that affect all citizen. It is this aspect that raises the top concerns of the President's Chancellery. president Andrzej Duda opposes the construction of wind farms besides close to residential houses and indicates their possible destabilisation of the energy system. At the same time, the Windmill Act besides includes government on biofuels, biogas and biomethane, which, according to the presidential minister stabilise the strategy and are positively evaluated. The President's office announces the improvement of common solutions with the RES sector, which will aid to make a stabilising sector, alternatively than dissipating it. This shows how energy policy becomes a hostage to wider political competitions, with direct consequences for the portfolios of Poles.
Government Communication and National Security
In the context of key energy decisions, The Rabenda highlighted the wider problem of government communication, referring to the fresh incidental with the drone under the Osins. The Minister assessed that ‘the government could not agree with itself on the current version of the events’, leading to a ‘festival of contradictory information’. This criticism points to potential shortcomings in coordination and trust between different resorts. On safety and defence issues which are the president's priority, the coherence of the message is crucial. The deficiency of a clear and uniform communicative on specified delicate matters may undermine public confidence. By shifting this to the energy ground, vague communications and deficiency of long-term strategy can deepen citizens' uncertainty about price stableness and the future of the Polish energy system. Poles request clear and predictable solutionsNot constant surprises and political pushbacks.
What next for Poles? Necessity of a Long-Term Strategy
The situation around energy price frost is an example of a wider problem of the deficiency of a long-term and coherent energy strategy in Poland. Although ad hoc price freezing is essential in the face of inflation and advanced costs, Minister Rabenda stressed the request to plan solutions for longer, so that Poles "are not constantly amazed by different decisions". The key is Finding a political compromise, which will let the adoption of a presidential task and guarantee the stableness of energy prices for the full 2025. The absence of specified a decision by the end of September will mean a real hazard for millions of households to importantly increase their accounts, which in practice will translate into reduction in purchasing power and deterioration of material situation. Regardless of political divisions, citizens' interests should be a priority, and clear and predictable energy price rules are the foundation for the financial safety of each family.
Read more:
Energy prices frozen until the end of 2025. Key decision for Poles
