Highlights:

• The draft bill amending the Act on Renewable Energy Sources and certain other acts has been included in the Council of Ministers' Work Schedule on 18 November 2025. 
• The amendments proposed in the draft bill concern the following areas: biomethane, biogas, biomass, onshore wind energy, and local energy. 
• The draft primarily contains solutions aimed at introducing an auction-based support system for biomethane and supporting the further development of RES. 

The goal of the proposed changes is to increase the potential for using RES, accelerate the energy transition while respecting the natural environment, reduce electricity bills for households and industry, and broadly develop the energy sector in line with the ambitions to reduce the economy's emissions and meet international commitments. 

The draft bill provides for the introduction of an auction-based support system for biomethane in installations above 1 MW and facilitates the construction of direct gas pipelines for the supply of biogas, agricultural biogas or biomethane. There are plans to streamline and accelerate investment processes in onshore wind energy and to introduce changes for prosumers, including increasing the consistency and transparency of information presented on prosumer invoices regarding the calculation and settlement of prosumer deposits by trading companies. 

Changes proposed in the draft bill: 
 

1. Biomethane, biogas and biomass 

• Introducing support for biomethane in installations with an installed electrical capacity exceeding 1 MW.
• Defining the rules for the operation of direct biogas, agricultural biogas or biomethane pipelines.
• Clarification of the area of settlement between the biomethane producer and the renewable energy operator and the gas network operator.
• Enabling the location of all agricultural biogas plants with an installed electrical capacity exceeding 1 MW based on a resolution by the municipal council.
• Liberalisation of the auction system for fuel sources.
• Verification of data from generators of electricity from agricultural biogas, heat from agricultural biogas or agricultural biogas in agricultural biogas micro-installations. 

2. Onshore wind energy 

• Regulating the possibility of locating wind farms based on an integrated investment plan (a special type of local spatial development plan).
• Harmonisation of consultation rules in the planning process dedicated to wind farm investments with the general consultation rules contained in the Act on Planning and Spatial Development. 
• Expansion and clarification of the mechanism for rewarding local communities. 
• Changes to facilitate the process of issuing permits for wind energy investments. 

3. Local energy areas 

• Modification of the method of summing up the capacity of micro-installations and energy storage facilities. 
• Increasing the consistency and transparency of information presented on prosumer invoices regarding the calculation and settlement of prosumer deposits by trading companies. 
• Regulation of the final settlement of the prosumer deposit after changing the supplier for the energy consumption point covered by the settlement. 
• Precisely defining the provisions concerning the functioning of energy cooperatives. 

4. Other areas 

• Possibility of locating a hydroelectric power plant in the place of a previously existing power plant with the possibility of entering the support system. 
• Correcting the support system for modernised installations. 
• Introducing the possibility of crediting electricity produced during periods of negative prices for the purposes of settling the sales obligation under the RES auction system. 
• Introducing the possibility of alternative settlement for PV installations in the RES auction support system. 

The introduction of an auction system for biomethane will enable the creation of large biomethane plants, which will contribute to increasing the country's energy security, greening gas networks and achieving EU renewable energy targets. Regulating the possibility of locating wind farms based on a special type of local spatial development plan, namely the Integrated Investment Plan, will allow for the dynamic launch of new investments in wind energy. 

Another important issue is public participation in new wind energy investment projects. The regulations impose an obligation on investors planning to build wind farms to allocate at least 10% of the installed capacity of the planned project for residents to participate in energy generation as virtual prosumers. The aim of the proposed law is to ensure that this system functions effectively and provides the greatest possible support to local communities and citizens who wish to use green energy and participate in the country's energy transition. Therefore, the possibility of participating in this system will be extended to include residents of nearby municipalities and neighbouring municipalities.