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From 2024 prices gas in Poland for households may be released. This is a huge change, because today Kowalski does not pay too much, it is supervised by the regulator. But as early as 2024, prices may be imposed by the market. The Polish Government and the European Commission are currently discussing this matter.
Gas market expert: Drożyzna
Analysts cited by Money.pl pay attention to the different nature of the Polish market. Prices for companies are up to 100 percent higher on it. than those that households see in their accounts. But in the West, the opposite is true. It is possible that after the liberalization of the market, which is required by the EU, the situation will reverse.
– The current position of PGNiG as the dominant gas seller means high prices for citizens, but huge profits for the state, because PGNiG is fully controlled by the State Treasury – says Janusz Steinhoff, former deputy prime minister and expert on the gas market, in an interview with the portal.
Bartłomiej Derski, an energy expert from the website Wysokienapiecie.pl also announces increases. – If only PGNiG, which dominates the market of individual customers [ma ok. 83 proc rynku – red.] behaved like an enterprise, from 2024 it would systematically increase the prices on the market of individual gas consumers, up to the level of approx. 100%. its current price – he explains in an interview with the portal.
Here comes the deregulation of energy prices. The Union wanted it to happen in 2021
Kowalski is happy not only with low gas bills, but also with electricity. And these are regulated. For now, because the European Union is pushing for an end to price determination.
Brussels pressed the Polish regulator to stop shaping the market in 2021. How many more electricity prices can be kept away from the market reality? This is not known yet, the Ministry of Climate stated that “recipients are not ready for full price liberalization”. A provision is to be passed in the middle of the year that will oblige retailers to continue approving tariffs. Sooner or later, however, the release would have to come.
A crisis someone has to pay for
Today it is too early to say that Poles will pay for the coronavirus crisis in electricity and gas bills. Media price increases may coincide with the payment of bills for business aid and other state expenses related to the COVID-19 epidemic.
Help for entrepreneurs did not come from the postponed money. Poland borrowed to pay out anti-crisis shields. The Polish Development Fund issued bonds worth PLN 71.9 billion, and Bank Of the National Economy PLN 100.7 billion. “Today we can talk about PLN 185 billion, which saved six and a half million places work“- said Marlena Maląg during one of the press conferences.
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