Renewables accounted for more than 50% of Poland’s installed electricity capacity at the end of 2025, and for the first time ever their share in annual power generation surpassed 30%, the Ministry of Climate and Environment said on February 17.
The ministry cited data showing that the country’s energy transition gathered pace between 2020 and 2025, with green sources taking on a far greater role in the national power system. That brought down the emissions intensity of Poland’s power-generating system to around 650 grams of CO2-equivalent intermittently last year, from around 800 a few years ago.
With hard and lignite coal still making up over 50% of Poland’s energy mix, the country’s electricity production remains one of the dirtiest in the EU. A leap to low-carbon generation is expected in the early 2030s, when Poland’s first nuclear power plant is expected to start operations.
According to figures from the Energy Market Agency, renewable installations represented 24.12% of total installed capacity in 2020, with combined capacity of 12,490MW. By 2025, renewable capacity had climbed to 37,777MW, marking more than a threefold increase over a short period.
That rapid expansion meant that by 2025 half of Poland’s total installed capacity came from renewable sources.
Solar power recorded the sharpest rise. Installed capacity in solar plants jumped from 3,960MW in 2020 to 24,808MW in 2025. Wind farms also expanded, with capacity increasing from 6,402MW to 10,550MW over the same period.
Electricity output from renewables also rose strongly. In 2020, green sources generated 28,173GWh of electricity. Five years later, in 2025, production reached 54,743GWh, almost double the earlier figure.
As a result, the share of renewables in total domestic electricity generation increased from 17.83% in 2020 to 31.41% in 2025. In practical terms, nearly one in every three kilowatt-hours produced in Poland last year came from renewable energy sources.
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