Ministry of Environment and Energy

Department of Statistics

Mesogeion Av. 119, 101 92, Athens, Greece

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,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. Regarding the 2^nd semester 2021 and due to the  increase in energy prices measures were taken to alleviate the burden on final consumers. As a result, the mentioned compensation was deducted from subcomponent Energy and Supply, given that it was not directly related to reduction or return of any kind of tax.
• 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.
• 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. This component includes also the excise duties.

In addition to these elements, the network cost is split into the respective shares of transmission and distribution.

VAT is refundable for non-household sector.

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

For the household sector:

For the non-household sector:

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

Household customers: Data coming from 14 suppliers out of 18 and representing 96% of the household customers.

Final non-household customers: Data coming from 14 suppliers out of 18 and representing 96% of the final non-household customers.

The reference area is the whole country.

Electricity prices data for Greece are available since 1991.

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 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:

• Greek Statistical Law No 3832/2010, as in force

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.
• Regulation (EC) No 557/2013 of 17 June 2013 implementing Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on European Statistics as regards access to confidential data for scientific purposes and repealing Commission Regulation (EC) No 831/2002 (Text with EEA relevance)

At national level:

• Articles 7, 8 and 9 of the Law 3832/2010 as in force, Articles 8, 10 and 11(2) of the Regulation on Statistical Obligations of the agencies of the Hellenic Statistical System, Articles 10 and 15 of the Regulation on the Operation and Administration of ELSTAT  and Article 27 (paragraph 2) of the Law 4233/2014 as in force.

Published data should not allow identification of single consumers.

If a single price is requested or is to be announced or published,when disaggregated data include confidential prices, the single price is calculated as a consumption - weighted average price. 

The precise date of data release is disseminated on Eurostat's website.

Not applicable.

In line with the Community legal framework and the European Statistics Code of Practice Eurostat disseminates European statistics on Eurostat's website respecting professional independence and in an objective, professional and transparent manner in which all users are treated equitably. The detailed arrangements are governed by the Eurostat protocol on impartial access to Eurostat data for users.

Data are also published by the IEA.

Electricity prices in Greece are published on a semestrial basis on Eurostat's website and  IEA's publications.

Not available at national level.

Not available at national level.

Not available at national level.

Not available.

Micro-data could be disseminated only if confidentiality rules are followed.

Not available.

Not available.

Being a member of the Hellenic Statistical System we implement the national quality assurance framework of statistics.

Regulation on the Statistical Obligations of the Agencies of the Hellenic Statistical System

Not available.

Being a member of the Hellenic Statistical System we implement the national quality assurance framework of statistics.

Regulation on the Statistical Obligations of the Agencies of the Hellenic Statistical System

The Quality asssurance framework is described in the Regulation on the Statistical Obligations of the agencies of the Hellenic Statistical System  

An annual report on the outcome of the statistical work programme of the previous year is submitted to the NSI.

The data produced are an important source of information for domestic and international users (government agencies, research institutions, international organizations, etc.).

No user satisfaction survey has been carried out for this dataset.

Data sets are complete.

All data required by Eurostat are provided.

The outliers, concerning the submitted data, are double checked.

Due to the high percentage of the population represented, the sampling error is considered negligible.

As the sampling error is considered negligible, no precision measures are applicable.

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

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

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

All the data are based on a census process.

As the system is not fully automated, measurement errors are possible but the rate of this kind of errors is not assessed and the errors are detected through different kind of outliers detection. Outliers are double checked.

Two of 18 data providers did not respond,which corresponds to 2.5% of the total consumption.

Household customers: 2 out of 18 suppliers did not respond, representing 2.5% of the household customers.

Final non-household customers: 2 out of 18 suppliers did not respond, representing 2.5% of the final non-household customers.

Item non-response rate is 0%.

As the system is not fully automated, Processing errors are possible but the rate of this kind of errors is not assessed and the errors are detected through different kind of outliers detection. Outliers are double checked.

Not Applicable.

Electricity providers that participate in the national data collection are requested to provide the electricity price data within 2 months after the reference period. After arrival, the Department 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 89 days after the reference period (27.09.2019).

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 2nd semester of 2019 was sent 91 days after the reference period (31.03.2020).

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 1st semester of 2020 was sent 90 days after the reference period (28.09.2020).

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 2nd semester of 2020 was sent 88 days after the reference period (29.03.2021).

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 1st semester of 2021 was sent 91 days after the reference period (29.09.2021).

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 2nd semester of 2021 was sent 89 days after the reference period (30.03.2022).

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 1st semester of 2019 was sent 89 days after the reference period (27.09.2019)

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2019 was sent 91 days after the reference period (31.03.2020).

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 (28.09.2020).

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2020 was sent 88 days after the reference period (29.03.2021).

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 1st semester of 2021 was sent 91 days after the reference period (29.09.2021).

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2021 was sent 89 days after the reference period (30.03.2022).

The revised version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 1st semester of 2019 was sent 291 days after the reference period, 202 days after the first version and 199 days after the mandatory deadline (16.04.2020).

The revised version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 2nd semester of 2019 was sent 107 days after the reference period, 16 days after the first version and 16 days after the mandatory deadline (16.04.2020).

The revised version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 1st semester of 2020 was sent 272 days after the reference period, 182 days after the first version and 180 days after the mandatory deadline (29.03.2021).

The revised version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 1st semester of 2021 was sent 273 days after the reference period, 182 days after the first version and 181 days after the mandatory deadline (30.03.2022).

The revised version of the electricity price questionnaire for non households for the 1st semester of 2019 was sent 291 days after the reference period, 202 days after the first version and 199 days after the mandatory deadline (16.04.2020).

The revised version of the electricity price questionnaire for non households for the 2nd semester of 2019 was sent 107 days after the reference period, 16 days after the first version and 16 days after the mandatory deadline (16.04.2020).

The latest revised version of the electricity price questionnaire for non households for the 1st semester of 2020 was sent 316 days after the reference period, 226 days after the first version and 224 days after the mandatory deadline (12.05.2021).

The latest revised version of the electricity price questionnaire for non households for the 2nd semester of 2020 was sent 132 days after the reference period, 44 days after the first version and 42 days after the mandatory deadline (12.05.2021).

The revised version of the electricity price questionnaire for non households for the 1st semester of 2021  was sent 273 days after the reference period, 182 days after the first version and 181 days after the mandatory deadline (30.03.2022).

Revisions were made because some suppliers resubmitted more accurate data.

The legal deadline for submitting the questionnaires is the third month after the reference period. We submit the data before the deadline expires.

All questionnaires were delivered on time.

Collected data concern the whole territory, but there is no comparison between different geographical areas.

Not applicable

From 2007 second semester onwards, prices are reported with a new methodology, therefore data is comparable over time. An exception is the second semester of 2017 in which the prices refer to arithmetic averages rather than consumption-weighted average. This was due to lack of the relevant data. However this is not considered to be a significant break in series.

There is no significant break in time series.

Not applicable

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Data sets are internally consistent.

Total cost and burden are difficult to be calculated.

Whenever data is submitted as provisional, a revision follows as soon as the final data is available. In case one or more data providers submitt a revision, prices are recalculated and submitted as soon as it is possible and no longer than a month after the change occurs. If the revision refers to more than 2 semesters backwards, a preannouncement takes place. When necessary, the semester 1 data is revised when submitting the semester 2 data for consistency reason between semestrial and annual prices.

Revision practice is described in S.17.1.

Household electricity prices collection: 0.003023979

Non-household electricity prices collection: 0.015251538

The data come from companies that supply / sell electricity to final households or non-household consumers and they are based on a census process.

For electricity prices: half yearly

For electricity price components: yearly

The Department sends Eurostat΄s questionnaires to all electricity suppliers.

Consumption-weighted average prices are calculated from raw data.

Submitted data is validated for consistency and completeness, by comparing the values with previous cycles and by checking that the population coverage and response rates are as required.

In case of inconsistent price data, the data providers are contacted to request a reconfirmation of the data.

Data represent weighted average prices, which are calculated by using the market shares of electricity supply companies.

Procedures for imputation, procedures to derive new variables and to calculate aggregates and complex statistics as well as procedures for adjustment for non-response and the corrections to the design weights to account for differences in response rates are not applied.

Procedures for combining input data from different sources are not applicable.

Imputation rate is considered to be zero.

Not applicable.

Seasonable adjustments are not carried out.