D32 Producer Prices, Foreign Trade Prices, Wholesale Prices

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 disagregation 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 calculated the single national electricity prices (weighted averages for consumer bands IA-IF and DA-DE).

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

Household customers: Data coming from 300 suppliers out of appr. 1.100 and representing 40% of household electricity consumption.

Final non-household customers: Data coming from 310 suppliers out of appr. 1.100 and representing 45% of non-household electrictiy consumption.

Reference Area is the whole country.

Electricity prices data for Germany are available since 1991s.

There is no Baseperiod, because nominal prices are given.

Prices are reported in national currency per kWh. However, Eurostat also calculates and publishes the prices in EURO and PPS (purchasing power parity).

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 of 17 May 2019 concerning the technical requirements regarding 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:

• Gesetz über die Preisstatistik (PreisStatG): Gesetz über die Preisstatistik in der im Bundesgesetzblatt Teil III, Gliederungsnummer 720-9, veröffentlichten bereinigten Fassung, das zuletzt durch Artikel 1 des Gesetzes vom 10. Dezember 2019 (BGBl. I S. 2117) geändert worden ist
  In English: Act on Price Statistics

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.

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:

• Confidentiality is guaranteed by section 16 of the Federal Statistics Act. It requires that respondents must be informed about their rights and obligations in providing statistical information. This rule is strictly followed. It also applies to the notification that individual data are only used for statistical purposes and - subject to  protection  procedures  - for scientific purposes.

Published data should not allow identification of single consumers. If there are three or less data distributors in one consumption band, data shall not be used for publication.

A release calendar containing the precise release dates for the reference periods for the current year is published on the website of the FSO.

www.destatis.de > press > annual release calendar:

https://www.destatis.de/SiteGlobals/Forms/Suche/Termine/EN/Terminsuche_Formular.html?cl2Taxonomies_Themen_0=preise

Prices are simultaneously released to all parties. The data are available at the database “GENESIS-Online” for all users at the same time.

Identification of internal government access to data before release in accordance with Principle 6.7 of the European Statistics Code of Practice: The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy and the German Central Bank get internal access to data one day before press release.

Data is transmitted to Eurostat one day before national dissemination.

Electricity prices in Germany are published on a semestrial basis on Eurostat's website and the FSO website www.destatis.de.

Press releases concerning energy prices are published by the FSO.

https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Wirtschaft/Preise/Erdgas-Strom-DurchschnittsPreise/_inhalt.html

Selected prices are published online:

https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Wirtschaft/Preise/Erdgas-Strom-DurchschnittsPreise/_inhalt.html

Prices are published at the time series database “GENESIS-Online”

https://www-genesis.destatis.de/genesis/online?operation=sprachwechsel&language=en

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Short methodological description are available on the FSO website:

https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Wirtschaft/Preise/Erdgas-Strom-DurchschnittsPreise/_inhalt.html

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Standardized quality reports are published on the website of the FSO:

https://www.destatis.de/DE/Methoden/Qualitaet/Qualitaetsberichte/Preise/durchschnittspreise-strom-erdgas.pdf?__blob=publicationFile

The data of German official statistics enjoy a reputation of high reliability in Germany and abroad. The FSO has committed itself to assure and further enhance the level of quality already attained. In order to achieve this task – also in the ESS – the activities of the FSO are based on quality guidelines. To assure quality in the long term, the FSO applies a variety of systematic quality assurance measures, among others the European Statistics Code of Practice.

Detailed descriptions can be found here: https://www.destatis.de/EN/Methods/Quality/_node.html

The FSO checks price reports from reporting units in terms of the completeness of reports as well as the plausibility of data provided. Missing price reports are extrapolated with suitable methods.

Major users of energy prices are the European Commission (Eurostat) as well as the Federal Government, i.e. the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, business associations and interest groupings of various industrial branches at the national level.

The FSO conducts user satisfaction surveys in various sectors of statistics. The Statistical Advisory Committee (Statistischer Beirat) represents the interests of the users of federal statistics and regularly consults with the FSO. Additionally, user satisfaction is measured by the number of monthly visits on specialized publications on the website of the FSO, quarterly downloads from the on-line database “GENESIS” and the number of external queries via the costumer management system.

The dataset complies with the current regulation.

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First releases are highly reliable. Results are normally final for the respective reference period with the first release.

There are various causes of errors, which are described in the following points.

A random sample is used for the selection of of reporting units. The sample selection and sample size attempts to minimize the sampling error.

Depending on the consumption band the standard error is between 0,6 % und 4 %.

Response of the surveyed units is obligatory. Otherwise, fines can be imposed up to EUR 5,000. Unit non-response:

In the case of non-response (e.g. because of shut-down or restructuring of the enterprise) the prices are extrapolated with suitable updating indicators if possible.

Item non-response:

This type of error especially includes incorrect or inaccurate data of the responding enterprises as well as non-response. Incorrect or inaccurate data are corrected by data editing and by direct queries with the enterprises in the current reference period.

The sampling method is intended to minimize the error.

Over-coverage in the sample can be excluded

100% of the data is covered by the survey.

Estimates of the measurement error are not available.

Response of the surveyed units is obligatory. Otherwise, fines can be imposed up to EUR 5,000. Unit non-response:

In the case of non-response (e.g. because of shut-down or restructuring of the enterprise) the prices are extrapolated with suitable updating indicators if possible.

Unit non-response rate is approxametly 10%.

This type of error especially includes incorrect or inaccurate data of the responding enterprises as well as non-response. Incorrect or inaccurate data are corrected by data editing and by direct queries with the enterprises in the current reference period. After inquiring the rate is below 1%.

Electricity Suppliers are questioned with an online questionnaire, the data is sent directly to the reprocessing program. Therefore, processing errors should be very rare.

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Electricity providers that participate in the national data collection are requested to provide the electricity price data within 8 weeks 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 90 days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 1st semester of 2020 was sent 90 days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 2nd semester of 2020 was sent 90 days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 1st semester of 2021 was sent 90 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 90 days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 1st semester of 2020 was sent 90 days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2020 was sent 90 days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 1st semester of 2021 was sent 90 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.

Revison of the second semester data of 2019 was send 127 days after the reference period.

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

All datasets have been submitted on time.

Electricity tax is a recoverable tax (mainly) for non-household customers. So, a comparison with countries where only VAT is recoverable can be misleading. Because of recoverable taxes for non-household costumers in Germany a cross country comparability is only possible with difficulties.

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The data is comparable since 2020.

The data is comparable since 2020.

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Annual prices are coherent with the semestrial prices.

In the NSO 2 persons work on methodical preparation, conducting the survey, processing, calculation, evaluation and publication.

There are no regular data revisions, because the results are covered 100% by the survey. Revisions are only made, if obvious implausibilities become obvious after data disemmination.

Data Revision took place for the second semster 2019 data because of the beginning covid 19 pandemic in spring 2020 and the higher non response rate of reporting units because of lockdowns.

Data of the second semester 2019 was revised because of the beginning covid 19 pandemic, the average size of revison was strongly depending on the consumption band and was between 10-50% of the first results.

Household electricty prices collection: 0.019894186

Non-household electricity prices collection: 0.200767772

Electricity suppliers and network operators in Germany, financial authority and regulatory authority

Twice per year consistent with the requirements of Eurostat.

Specific web-based questionnaires for statistics of energy prices are used. They include a data checking process during the input process. Reporting via electronic media (internet) is obligatory. Missing responses are requested by telephone, postal or e-mail reminders.

Survey results are checked for plausibility concerning general development of electricity prices, grid fees and levies and taxes.

Weighting is done due to amount of electricity supplied. This is done separately for each consumption band.

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