According to information provided by Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne (PSE), electricity production alone fell 11 percent in June, while the demand was lower by almost seven percent. The balance of cross-border trade was over 40 percent higher than a year earlier.
The operator’s monthly data show that electricity production in Poland fell to 11.045 TWh in June. A year earlier, it was 12,436 TWh. This is a decrease by 11.18 percent compared to June last year. The domestic energy consumption in June fell to the level of 12.532 TWh, and in the same period in the previous year it was 13.470 TWh. This is a decrease of nearly seven percent.
Data on hard coal-based electricity production in terms of the entire energy mix fell from almost 52 percent to nearly 46 percent in the first quarter of this year. The production of electricity from hard coal-fired power plants a year earlier was 39,110 GWh, while in the first half of this year it was 33,835 GWh. Which is a decrease of 13.49 percent. Lignite-fired power plants also fell from 30 percent in the first half of 2019 to over 28 percent in the first half of this year. Gas-fired power plants grew from 6.2 to 7.7 percent.
There was also more energy from the wind. Production increased from 7,343 GWh to 7,859 GWh, an increase of 7 percent. The share of wind in electricity production is 5.3 percent compared to 5.6 percent in the previous year. Hydroelectric power generated 2.39 percent of energy, up from 1.82 percent a year earlier.