Polish energy customers using maximum price rates must submit declarations by June to avoid financial penalties and bill recalculations at higher market rates.
Failure to Submit Declaration Leads to Financial Penalties
Neglecting this formal requirement with the current energy supplier will result in significant financial consequences. The electricity price for the previous period will be recalculated retroactively according to much higher market rates arising from basic sales contracts.
Anyone who has used maximum energy prices must submit a declaration.
Legal Requirement Based on Energy Price Cap Laws
The necessity to complete this formal requirement stems directly from provisions of the Energy Bonus Act and amendments to certain acts aimed at limiting electricity, natural gas, and district heating prices. Under the current legal framework, applying the maximum price in settlements with companies from July 1 to December 31, 2024, is treated as public aid or de minimis aid.
For the state to legally account for this support, every entrepreneur and farmer using preferential rates must provide the appropriate declaration, which serves as the basis for maintaining preferential settlements.
Untimely Documentation Results in Financial Losses
Failing to submit documents on time means real financial losses and the need to settle high adjustments. Energy suppliers such as Tauron warn that after the June deadline, they will be obligated to correct invoices issued in the second half of 2024.
In practice, this means the difference between the maximum price and the standard contract rate will be added to the client’s current obligations, which for many farms and smaller businesses may constitute a significant burden on financial liquidity.
Large Number of Declarations Already Submitted
The scale of the operation is enormous – in Tauron alone, nearly 100,000 entities have already submitted the required documents. Company representatives emphasize that thanks to a broad information campaign and the provision of intuitive online forms, over 87 percent of entitled companies have already submitted declarations.
The digital process takes only a few minutes, which is meant to facilitate entrepreneurs’ fulfillment of the obligation without the need to visit service points or send documents by traditional mail.
Thousands Still Need to Regularize Their Status
Despite the high response rate, thousands of entities have yet to regularize their status. It is better not to postpone this task to the last days of June, as potential errors in documentation may require time to correct. Remember that the declaration must be submitted to the entity that was our energy supplier in the second half of 2024 – maintaining the statutory price for this period is possible only after successful verification of information about received de minimis aid.
