Orlen Charge's summer promotion expired at 9am on 1 September 2026. Poland's largest fuel retailer is back to its standard tariff — 2.69 zł/kWh on DC, 1.95 zł/kWh on AC, with no subscription required. GreenWay is still discounting at selected sites until 30 September, at 1.79 or 2.09 zł/kWh.
What changed this morning
The Orlen promotion had run since 26 June, cutting roughly 25% off the list rate and adding Vitay loyalty points, which put promotional DC charging near 2.19 zł/kWh. That is now gone, and the standard price applies at every Orlen Charge point regardless of charger power — Orlen does not split its tariff by kW, so a 50 kW cabinet and a 300 kW unit bill identically.
GreenWay's promotion runs the other way in timing: it continues to 30 September at 1.79 or 2.09 zł/kWh depending on location, which for the next four weeks makes selected GreenWay sites the cheapest public DC in the country.
What the networks charge now
Per evstar.pl's comparison of Polish DC tariffs:
| Network | Standard DC | With subscription |
|---|---|---|
| Tesla Supercharger (Tesla owners) | 1.10–2.10, avg ~1.60 | 50 zł/month membership |
| Tesla Supercharger (other brands) | avg ~2.20 | — |
| Ekoen | 1.99 / 2.19 | — |
| Moya Energia | 2.34 | yes |
| ChargeIN+ | ~2.39 | — |
| Polenergia | 2.62 (app) / 3.09 | — |
| Orlen Charge | 2.69 | none offered |
| PowerDot | 2.85 | 2.05 |
| GreenWay | 2.99 | 2.40 (Plus) / 2.10 (Max) |
| Ionity | 3.10 | 2.33 (Motion) / 1.86 (Passport) |
All figures in złoty per kWh. Prices vary by site and time of day, and promotional rates move often — treat the table as the shape of the market rather than a fixed price list.
What this means for a Tesla owner in Poland
The Supercharger network is the cheapest DC option in Poland for a Tesla, and today's change widens the margin. At an average of about 1.60 zł/kWh for Tesla owners, Supercharging sits roughly 40% below Orlen's restored 2.69 zł/kWh and about 45% below GreenWay's standard rate. Only Ekoen's 1.99 zł/kWh comes close, and it is a much smaller network.
That is the reverse of the position in several western European markets, where Superchargers are frequently the expensive option and third-party CCS networks undercut them. Polish Tesla owners have the simpler calculation: barring a promotion, the home network wins on price as well as on convenience.
Two caveats matter. First, the 50 zł/month Supercharger membership only pays for itself at volume — at the spread between the member and non-member rates, it needs meaningful monthly kWh to break even, so occasional chargers should stay on pay-per-use. Second, Supercharger pricing is time-of-day dependent and the 1.10–2.10 zł/kWh band is wide; the low end is off-peak, and a peak-hour stop can land close to Orlen's flat rate.
The subscription trap
For non-Tesla drivers the table has a sting: Ionity's Passport tier at 1.86 zł/kWh is the cheapest per-kWh figure on the list, but costs 51.5 zł a month. Poland's charging market increasingly prices the same electron three different ways depending on which app you opened, and the cheapest headline rate is rarely the cheapest actual bill. Orlen's appeal was never its price — it is that a single flat rate with no subscription is legible. At 2.69 zł/kWh it is now merely mid-table.