Gas market: President of URE approves PSG’s distribution tariff for 2025
The President of URE has approved a new tariff for the distribution of gaseous fuels for Polska Spółka Gazownictwa. As a result, from the beginning of 2025, gas bills for the most popular tariff groups will rise from around PLN 2.60 to just under PLN 30 per month.
The PSG’s Tariff No. 13 for gas fuel distribution services approved on 16 December 2024 will be effective from 1 January to 31 December 2025. The new tariff provides for an average increase of approximately 24.7 per cent in distribution tariffs compared to those approved in Tariff No. 12, excluding rates for coke-oven gas.
Changes to gas bills from the beginning of 2025.
The total amount of the natural gas bill comprises the cost of purchase and distribution (transport). From the beginning of 2025, the distribution tariff, in tariff groups W-1.1, W-2.1 and W-3.6, will account for around 25-36 per cent of the gas bill. At the same time, the gas sales tariff for PGNiG Obrót Detaliczny (PGNiG OD), approved in June 2024, will continue to apply in the first half of next year.
As of 1 January 2025, the charges paid by customers covered by the PSG tariff and the PGNiG OD tariff approved by the President of URE in June this year, with the unfrozen subscription fee rates, as compared to those applied in the second half of 2024, will increase on average by:
- 7.84 per cent for customers from group W-1.1.
- 5.36 per cent for customers from group W-2.1.
- 5.25 per cent for customers from group W-3.6.
Table 1. Estimated value of changes in average monthly net payments in tariff groups for households covered by the PSG’s new distribution tariff for 2025 and the existing tariff of PGNiG OD
Fig. 1. Average net distribution charge rates in PSG Tariff No. 12 and new PSG Tariff No. 13
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- All prices and payment changes quoted by URE are net of VAT.
- Tariff group W-1.1 includes customers who use gas for cooking. Group W-2.1 includes those who also use gas for heating water. Meanwhile, tariff group W-3.6 includes customers who consume the largest volumes of gaseous fuel, and use it also for home heating.
- Distribution charge rates, which consist of a fixed distribution charge and a variable distribution charge, may vary depending on the location (tariff area).
- The President of URE approves tariffs for gaseous fuels distribution services for all customer groups. Tariffs for the sale of natural gas, on the other hand, are approved only for households and customers with important public service tasks.
- Gas sales tariffs will be approved by the Regulator for the last time for 2027. However, tariffs for the use of gas infrastructure (storage, transmission, distribution and liquefaction and regasification) will continue to be regulated.