Electricity prices in Europe: what households pay per kWh in every EU country

In the first half of 2026, households in the EU paid on average €0.28 per kWh of electricity, taxes and levies included. The most expensive was Ireland (€0.39), followed by Germany (€0.36); the cheapest was Hungary (€0.11), 3.4 times less.

Adjusted for price levels, that is, for what everything else costs in each country, the ranking changes. Measured in purchasing power, electricity costs the most in Romania, Poland and Czechia, and the least in Malta.

Country	Price (€/kWh)	By purchasing power (PPS/kWh)	Taxes and levies
Ireland	0.3871	0.3281	9%
Germany	0.3618	0.3243	34%
Belgium	0.3575	0.3160	22%
Austria	0.3260	0.2861	24%
Italy	0.3142	0.3277	25%
Sweden	0.3062	0.2460	31%
Poland	0.2999	0.4112	47%
Czechia	0.2884	0.3434	19%
Romania	0.2836	0.4689	24%
Finland	0.2694	0.2274	29%
Cyprus	0.2688	0.2988	27%
Spain	0.2509	0.2797	29%
France	0.2485	0.2334	31%
Netherlands	0.2440	0.2080	-10%
Latvia	0.2415	0.3046	18%
Greece	0.2401	0.2900	18%
Denmark	0.2375	0.1844	20%
Portugal	0.2367	0.2820	33%
Lithuania	0.2162	0.2681	17%
Estonia	0.2118	0.2306	29%
Slovenia	0.2118	0.2414	23%
Luxembourg	0.2023	0.1547	7%
Slovakia	0.1985	0.2466	30%
Croatia	0.1816	0.2455	19%
Bulgaria	0.1341	0.2104	17%
Malta	0.1268	0.1375	6%
Hungary	0.1139	0.1470	21%

• EU average
• Germany
• France
• Ireland

2025

• EU average28.9
• Germany38.5
• France26.2
• Ireland36.4

The average of both half-years, taxes and levies included. Horizontal axis: years.

How prices moved

The EU average is down 1.6% on the first half of 2025, when it was €0.29. Against the first half of 2021, before the energy crisis, when it was €0.22, it is up 29%. In 25 of the 27 countries a kWh costs more in euro than it did then.

Why prices differ so much between countries

• Taxes and levies. They make up 28% of the price on average across the EU, but the share varies widely: some countries tax electricity heavily, others give households part of the tax back.
• The network. Grid charges depend on how large and how old a country's networks are and how much it invests in them.
• Regulation. Where the state caps or subsidises the household price, electricity is cheaper than the market would make it; the difference is paid some other way, for example from the budget.
• The energy mix. What a country generates its power from, and how much it imports, also shows in the price of the energy itself.

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