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Electricity prices for household consumers - bi-annual data (from 2007 onwards) (nrg_pc_204)

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

16 June 2022

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) but not published because it could be used to re-calculate some confidential values.

 

Only the VAT is refundable for non-households

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

The field concerns the main gas and electricity suppliers (as well as carriers and distributors in the case of electricity). It is therefore in the NAF nomenclature codes
35.11Z (Generation of electricity), 35.12Z (Transmission of electricity), 35.13Z (Distribution of electricity), 35.14Z (Trading of electricity), 35.21Z (Production of gaseous fuels), 35.23Z (Trading of gaseous fuels through pipelines).
Suppliers supplying gas or electricity without drawing up invoices to companies in their group are therefore excluded.
Gas transported in liquid form to LNG terminals and then transported by truck in liquid form to customers is excluded.

France excluding overseas departments and Corsica.

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).

Potential errors:

- Error of the provider:

- Bad filter over the period

- Bad consideration of new and outgoing customers in the assignment of consumption bands

- Error after taking account of payment deposit and not on a volume actually invoiced in the period

- Error in the approval of the supplier's invoices

- Error input in the online application

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 the annual calculation only the questionnaires for which the bands of consumption of the prices excluding taxes are filled in the first and second semester are considered as well as the volumes of the first and second semester.

- The consumption bands of suppliers who have not entered the price of the supply or the cost of the network costs are excluded

- Taxes locales for the final consummation of electricity (TLCFE) forced to 0 band IE, IF and IG.

- Internal Tax on Final Electricity Consumption (TICFE) forced to 22,5 € / MWh in 2019, 2020 and 2021 for residential customers.

- If some suppliers fail to submit data, they will be imputed as the average of the other suppliers data of the band.

- If a supplier does not submit the invoiced VAT, it will be calculated using the difference of the supplier's half-yearly between prices including and excluding VAT, weighted by its half-yearly volumes. If these prices are not available, the VAT will be imputed with the average VAT value of the market band.

Selection of suppliers from the lists communicated semi-annually by the Energy Regulatory Commission.

Inquiry of suppliers representing the largest market shares until reaching the 95% market threshold.

List remains fairly stable from one year to the next: The historical suppliers (EDF for electricity) retain a significant share of the market, especially among households.

New suppliers often start with a small market share.

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

Every quarter an update of aggregate results is sent to the IEA (quarterly statistics – Energies prices and taxes).

The results are also available on the database website of the ministry.

Electricity providers that participate in the national data collection are requested to provide the electricity price data within 2,5 months 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

Until the first half of 2021, the prices sent to Eurostat only concerned mainland France except Corsica. Since the second half of 2021, the prices relate to the whole of France except Mayotte, that is to say metropolitan France including Corsica, Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guyana and Réunion.

Until the first half of 2021, the prices sent to Eurostat only concerned mainland France except Corsica. Since the second half of 2021, the prices relate to the whole of France except Mayotte, that is to say metropolitan France including Corsica, Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guyana and Réunion.