Natural gas

The offered study will constitute a comprehensive and expert analysis of the natural gas sales market for industrial customers, covering the formation of sales prices in the years 2022–2025. The analysis will concern gas sellers' offers addressed to end customers from the industrial sector and will be carried out on the basis of reliable reporting data.

The period covered by the analysis was characterised by significant volatility in market conditions, resulting from the unstable situation on European natural gas markets, dynamic regulatory changes, and interventional measures by public authorities. These factors had a direct impact on the level and structure of gas sales prices, the commercial terms of offered contracts, and the purchasing strategies employed by industrial customers.

This report will present in a systematic manner how the pricing policies of companies selling gas to end customers evolved under conditions of heightened market uncertainty, and what consequences this had for gas costs borne by the manufacturing sector. The study will enable:

• assessment of the competitiveness of the domestic natural gas sales market,
• identification of key price trends and structural changes,
• comparison of pricing conditions over time,
• support for decision-making processes in the area of gas cost management and gaseous fuel procurement planning in enterprises.

The analyses will be based on data from the reports of natural gas trading companies, which will ensure a high level of reliability, comparability, and practical usefulness of the presented results.

The study will consist of two main parts. The first part will include a characterization of the current natural gas market in Poland. It will present the most up-to-date statistical data on natural gas consumption, broken down by: sectors of the economy, voivodeships and regions, and customer segments.
The analysis will examine the directions of energy and non-energy gas consumption in Poland and the technical, economic, and ecological conditions that determine the choice and use of natural gas in various applications.

Historical data regarding gas supplies to Poland and storage capacities will also be presented.

The impact of the Third Energy Package on the Polish gas market, including gas infrastructure, will be discussed.

The second part of the study will present prospects and opportunities for increased natural gas demand in the country as a whole and in selected regions in the long term.

The analysis will cover the economic situation of individual regions of Poland in order to identify potential future gas consumers, i.e., enterprises that are large consumers of fuels and energy and have not yet been connected to the gas network, as well as companies using small amounts of gas.