Energie-Control Austria für die Regulierung der Elektrizitäts- und Erdgaswirtschaft (E-Control)

Regulation & Competition

Rudolfsplatz 13A
1010 Wien
Austria

European statistics on electricity prices for household and final non-household customers.

Internal Eurostat classification system based on annual electricity consumption bands and tax levels.

Household sector and final non-household sector (industry, services, offices, agriculture, etc).

The prices are reported in national currencies per kWh and according to different bands of consumption.

For the household sector, these bands are:

• DA: customers consuming less than 1000 kWh.
• DB: customers consuming 1000 kWh or more but less than 2500 kWh.
• DC: customers consuming 2500 kWh or more but less than 5000 kWh.
• DD: customers consuming 5000 kWh or more but less than 15000 kWh.
• DE: customers consuming 15000 kWh or more.

For the final non-household sector, the bands are:

• IA: customers consuming less than 20 MWh.
• IB: customers consuming 20 MWh or more but less than 500 MWh.
• IC: customers consuming 500 MWh or more but less than 2000 MWh.
• ID: customers consuming 2000 MWh or more but less than 20000 MWh.
• IE: customers consuming 20000 MWh or more but less than 70000 MWh.
• IF: customers consuming 70000 MWh or more but less than 150000 MWh.
• IG: customers consuming 150000 MWh or more.

There exist 2 different levels of disaggregation for semestrial and annual prices:

1- Semestrial prices:

These prices are reported twice a year and are divided in 3 levels:

• Level 1 prices: prices excluding taxes and levies.
• Level 2 prices: prices excluding VAT and other recoverable taxes and levies.
• Level 3 prices: prices including all taxes and levies.

2- Annual prices:

These prices are reported once a year together with the data for the second semester and are divided into the following components and taxes:

• Energy and supply: generation, aggregation, balancing energy, supplied energy costs, customer services, after-sales management and other supply costs.
• Network cost: transmission and distribution tariffs, transmission and distribution losses, network costs, after-sale service costs, system service costs, and meter rental and metering costs.
• Value added taxes (VAT): as defined in Council Directive 2006/112/EC.
• Renewable taxes: taxes, fees, levies or charges relating to the promotion of renewable energy sources, energy efficiency and CHP generation.
• Capacity taxes: Taxes, fees, levies or charges relating to capacity payments, energy security and generation adequacy; taxes on coal industry restructuring; taxes on electricity distribution; stranded costs and levies on financing energy regulatory authorities or market and system operators.
• Environmental taxes: taxes, fees, levies or charges relating to air quality and for other environmental purposes; taxes on emissions of CO₂ or other greenhouse gases. This component includes the excise duties.
• Nuclear taxes: taxes, fees, levies or charges relating to the nuclear sector, including nuclear decommissioning, inspections and fees for nuclear installations.
• All other taxes: taxes, fees, levies or charges not covered by any of the previous five categories: support for district heating; local or regional fiscal charges; island compensation; concession fees relating to licences and fees for the occupation of land and public or private property by networks or other devices.

In addition to these elements, the network cost is split into the respective shares of transmission and distribution. The relative share of consumption in the different consumption bands is reported by the countries and used to calculate the single national electricity prices (weighted averages for consumer bands IA-IF and DA-DE) and the consumption of the households and non-households for each consumer bands.

Some of the taxes are refundable. Here is a description of them:

In the table below are the taxes reported in "All other taxes"

For the reporting period 2019 to 2021 no state subsidy scheme was in place.

Household and final non-household consumers divided into consumption bands.

Household customers: Data coming from 147 suppliers out of 153 and representing 99,8% of the household customers.

Final non-household customers: Data coming from 162 suppliers out of 167 and representing 99,6% of the final non-household customers.

The Austrian price data covers the entire country.

Electricity prices data for Austria are available since 2016.

Not applicable.

Prices are reported in national currency per kWh. However, Eurostat also calculates and publishes the prices in EURO and PPS (purchasing power parity).
Relative shares of sub-component of the network component and consumption volumes are reported in percentages.

For semestrial prices, the reference periods are from January to June for semester 1 and from July to December for semester 2.

For annual prices, the reference period is the whole calendar year (from January to December).

At EU level:

• Regulation (EU) 2016/1952 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 October 2016 on European statistics on natural gas and electricity prices and repealing Directive 2008/92/EC (Text with EEA relevance).
• Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2169 of 21 November 2017 concerning the format and arrangements for the transmission of European Statistics on natural gas and electricity prices pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2016/1952 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance).
• Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/1734 of 14 November 2018 granting derogations to the Federal Republic of Germany, the Kingdom of Spain, the Italian Republic and the Republic of Cyprus as regards the provision of statistics pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2016/1952 of the European Parliament and of the Council (notified under document C(2018) 7465) (Text with EEA relevance).
• Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/803 concerning the content of quality reports on European statistics on natural gas and electricity prices pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2016/1952 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance).

At national level:

• Electricity Statistics Ordinance 2016

At EU level:

• Eurostat does not share the data collected with other organisation appart from its usual dissemination chanel (Eurostat's database, statistic explained articles and press or news release) .

At national level:

• Data is sent to Eurostat.
• Data is sent to IEA.

At EU level:

• Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council, of 11 March 2009, on the transmission of data subject to statistical confidentiality to the Statistical Office of the European Communities.

At national level:

• Data protection act 2000

Published data should not allow identification of single consumers.

Cells with confidentiality problems will be suppressed.

There is no release calendar.

There is no release calendar.

New results are uploaded on our homepage. There is no information for special users.

Electricity prices in Austria are published on a semestrial basis on Eurostat's website.

They are also published on the E-Control's homepage on a semestrial basis and in the Energy Prices and Taxes report of the IEA on a quarterly basis.

No news release.

No other publications than those published on the website of E-Control.

No database available.

Not applicable.

Micro-data are accessible for researchers, but they can only publish aggregated data.

No other dissemination format.

4

No metadata available at national level.

1

See flowchart.

E-Control has established quality guidelines. As an instance they include a 4-eyes principle. 

The quality of the electricity prices is assessed to be high.

Users in Austria are suppliers and companies who compare their own prices with the published prices.
Data are also used from researchers and consultants. They use it for site analyses.
International agencies use the electricity prices also for cross-country comparisons.

We did not perform any satisfaction survey on these datasets.

The datasets are complete.

100%

The overall accuracy of the electricity price data with its components and sub-components can be considered to be high with the exception of the relative shares of the transmission and distribution cost which are estimated. The most common error is the aggregation of the metering points to one customer to be assigned to consumption bands. There are discussions with the companies to reduce this bias.

Not relevant as 99.8% of the household customers and 99.6% of the non-household customers are covered.

Not relevant.

Information is included in the sub-concepts S.13.3.1-S.13.3.5.

Given the high percentage of the population covered, all kinds of units are well represented.

We are not aware of any over-coverage in the data.

100%

Some wrong entries cannot be detected by checks. Sometimes data are delivered too late. Then they must be estimated.

Not relevant

165 out of 171 suppliers, 99.8% of the target population, responded to the survey.

All suppliers provided information to all items.

A very small part of the consumers is classified in the wrong consumer band. In this case the prices are reported in the wrong consumer band. The impact of the total prices is negligible.

Not Applicable.

Electricity providers that participate in the national data collection are requested to provide the electricity price data within 51 days after the reference period. After arrival, the statistical office checks the micro-data for correctness, consistency and completeness and national averages are calculated and reported to Eurostat during the third month after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 1st semester of 2019 was sent 90 days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 2nd semester of 2019 was sent 89 days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 1st semester of 2020 was sent 95 days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 2nd semester of 2020 was sent 89 days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 1st semester of 2021 was sent 88 days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 2nd semester of 2021 was sent 90 days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 1st semester of 2019 was sent 90 days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2019 was sent 89 days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 1st semester of 2020 was sent 95 days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2020 was sent 89 days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 1st semester of 2021 was sent 88 days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2021 was sent 90 days after the reference period.

Version 2 of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 1st semester of 2020 was sent 270 days after the reference period.

The legal deadline for submitting the questionnaires is the third month after the reference period.

96,5% of all national electricity providers report the price data on time to our institute.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households and non-households for the 1st semester of 2020 was sent 5 days after the deadline.

There is no problem of comparability between countries.

Not applicable

2nd semester 2017 - transition to census instead of sample survey

The data is comparable since 2017.

Not applicable

Not applicable

Not applicable

Annual prices are coherent with the semestrial prices.

It is not possible for us to estimate the cost and burden for 1 particular project.

Usually the last period will be revised, if companies have sent new data for this period in the meantime.

Data are revised if suppliers are sending the prices after the deadline or they are revising the prices. In this case the revision is sent with the next data transmission.

Households electricity prices collection (PRELH): 0.00035261

Non-household electricity prices collection (PRELI): 0.000489834

Data are collected from suppliers and network operators. They use their billing system to extract the average price data and the respective sub-components for each consumption band. 

Electricity prices for household and non-household consumers are collected from electricity providers every 6 month.

The electricity price data are reported from all suppliers and network operators in Austria by using Excel questionnaires provided by our institute. All components of the bill are asked either on the supplier side or on the network operator side. The individual components are summarize to the asked sub-components of the Eurostat questionnaire.

The data is validated by using the build-in validation tools of the Eurostat questionnaires. They are also compared with the previous period.

Sometimes small suppliers report too late. In this case the prices of the last period are imputed. The national average prices are calculated by using the individual market share of each supplier and each network operator in each consumption band.

< 5%

Not available

Seasonable adjustments are not carried out.