Poland’s battery rush
Poland’s grid batteries: what the power market pays them, how many have been built, how many are waiting to connect, and where they want to go, from PSE’s own data and the regulator’s auction results.
What Poland’s power market pays batteries, how many are waiting to connect, and where they want to go. Autumn 2026, 21 pages, A4. Every figure is measured from a named source, and the sources are listed at the back.
In brief
588 MW
of grid batteries are switched on in Poland, in 27 batteries. 503 MW of it came on in 2026.
Vitreous battery register
11.2 GW
of four-hour batteries hold capacity contracts starting in 2027 to 2030.
URE auction lists; Vitreous count
55 GW
of storage holds grid connection conditions or agreements across Poland, 30 September 2026.
PSE aggregate, 29 Oct 2026
15 GW
of storage is what PSE plans for by 2034, 10 GW of it on the highest-voltage network.
PSE Strategy 2040
€41 and €227
the average price per MWh at 1pm and at 8pm in summer 2026.
PSE market price (RCE)
1.8 TWh
of solar and wind curtailed by PSE in 2026 to 30 October; 99% because there was more power than the system could use.
PSE
30%
of the battery megawatts in PSE’s queue sit north of 53.5°N, near the Baltic coast. 18% sit in the south.
PSE list; Vitreous placement
34.7 GW
of batteries in PSE’s queue had to pay or lose their place by 30 October 2026.
PSE list; Grid Act
What is inside
- 1The shape of the marketWhy evening power costs far more than midday power, and why PSE curtails solar
- 2What happenedThe batteries built so far, and the capacity contracts behind the rest
- 3OversubscribedHow much storage is queuing against what PSE plans for, and who owns it
- 4Where batteries connectWhy so much of the queue is in the north, and what Britain and Germany have learnt
- 5The 30 October cutWhich batteries had to pay or drop out, and what changed in September
- 6What happens nextContracts against building work, and how much reserve PSE buys
- 7What to watchSix dates for the coming year