Coal in Poland

Coal in Poland is partly mined and partly imported. Poland is the second-largest coal-mining country in Europe, after Germany, and the ninth-largest coal producer in the world. The country consumes nearly all the coal it mines, and is no longer a major coal exporter.

Coal mines are concentrated mainly in Upper Silesia. The most profitable mines were Marcel Coal Mine and Zofiówka Coal Mine.

Every third home in Poland uses coal for heating.

In 2025 half of Poland's electricity was generated from coal. However extraction became increasingly difficult and expensive, and became uncompetitive against Russian imports, which were cheaper and of higher quality. Sometime after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine Poland stopped importing from them. The industry now relies on government subsidies, taking nearly all of the annual €1.6 billion government energy sector support. In September 2020, the government and mining union agreed a plan to phase out coal by 2049, but this has been criticised by environmentalists as too late to be compatible with the Paris Agreement to limit climate change.