Hungarian Energy and Public-utility Regulatory Authority

Department of Analysis and Statistics

Hungary 1388 Budapest, Pf. 88

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:

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.

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.

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

IA-IF

VAT

Value added taxes (VAT)

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

IA-IF

Support for the price discount of electricity purchases of pensioners and employees of the electricity industry

IA-IF

Cogeneration restructuring fee

IA-IF

Fee to support the restructuring of the coal industry (“coal cent”) – From 2019 it is zero.

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

Household customers: Data coming from 3 suppliers out of 3 and representing 100% of the household customers.

Final non-household customers: Data coming from 20 suppliers out of 20 and representing 100% of the final non-household customers.

National Territory

Electricity prices data for Hungary are available since 1992.

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) 2019/823 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 Councilwith EEA relevance).

At national level:

https://njt.hu/jogszabaly/2017-11-20-5Z 11/2017. decree of the Hungarian Energy and Public-utility Regulatory Authority’s President on the data reporting obligations of Hungarian Energy and Public-utility Regulatory Authority’s licensees

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:

https://njt.hu/jogszabaly/2011-112-00-00 Act CXII of 2011 on Informational Self-determination and Freedom of Information

Published data should not allow identification of single consumers.

Data published always consists of at least three consumers.

No release calendar is published.

There is no calendar.

Not published.

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

On an ad-hoc basis.

Data of the Hungarian electricity system – annual publication

There is no online database, data are available at Eurostat website.

Not applicable.

We don't give access to microdata.

No other ways for disseminating the data

Not applicable

Internal national documenation: these documents contain the approved methodology for the reports, which is in line with EUROSTAT guidelines,as well as the approved explanatory texts for the actual reports, guiding the data providers. These documents did not change since 2014, as the changes of the EUROSTAT guidelines in 2017 only changed the compilaton methods of the Authority.

Eurostat Guidelines.

Not assessed.

Partially available for internal users.

No formal QA system in place.

The HEA collects full-scale administrative data from its licensees, which provide high quality outputs. There was a complete methodology supervision in 2013, since then the forms have guidelines for completing. This guidelines were discussed with the data suppliers.

In 2018 (parallel with the improvement of the Eurostat methodology) the HEA made some corrections in the methodology, clarified some remaining questions and initiated an additive reporting obligation for the DSO’s to improve its report’s quality.

There are several users of this output, including the governance, general public, the different departments of HEA (market monitoring, analysis purposes), different stakeholders of the electricity markets and non-household users.

The most important aspect for them is the comparability (geographical and over time).

We don't have any method in place for measuring the satisfaction of the users.

The HEA collects full-scale administrative data from its licensees.

100%

The HEA collects full-scale administrative data from its licensees, which provide high quality outputs, however random errors can occur.

Most common issue is the misinterpretation of the measurements (data imputed in MJ/TJ instead of GJ, HUF instead of thousand HUF, etc…)

A price element is not reported, and no valid reason is given for the omission of said price element.

Timeline analysis shows, that a given trader/universal service provider/DSO/TSO did not report an element that they reported before (missing value).

None, using full-scale administrative data/not applicable.

None, using full-scale administrative data/not applicable.

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

None, using full-scale administrative data without systematic non-response.

No information about over-coverage.

Using full-scale administrative data

Erroneous reporting, reporting wrong units.

To prevent errors, HEA communicate with data providers, make guidance for completing. The random errors detected through validation.

No systematic non response error, all data is available by the time the report is produced.

No systematic non response error, all data is available by the time the report is produced.

No systematic non response error, all data is available by the time the report is produced.

No known systhematic processing error.

Not Applicable.

Electricity providers that participate in the national data collection are requested to provide the (monthly) electricity price data within 25 days after the reference period. After arrival, the HEA 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 in time.
The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 2nd semester of 2019 was sent in time.
The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 1st semester of 2020 was sent in time.
The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 2nd semester of 2020 was sent in time.
The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 1st semester of 2021 was sent in time.
The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 2nd semester of 2021 was sent in time.
The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 1st semester of 2019 was sent in time.
The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2019 was sent in time.
The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 1st semester of 2020 was sent in time.
The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2020 was sent in time.
The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 1st semester of 2021 was sent in time.
The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2021 was sent in time.

Version 2 of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 1st semester of 2019 was sent 291 days after the reference period, 199 days after the first version and 199 day(s) after the mandatory deadline.
Version 2 of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2019 was sent 114 days after the reference period, 23 days after the first version and 23 day(s) after the mandatory deadline.
Version 2 of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 1st semester of 2020 was sent 274 days after the reference period, 182 days after the first version and 182 day(s) after the mandatory deadline.

See Data revision part.

Occasionally, if the deadline is on a weekend or a national holiday, the uploading happens on the upcoming workday.

All data were submitted on time. 

The reference area is Hungary, and there is no problem of comparability between regions, data collections have the same reference area.

Not applicable

The HEA collects full-scale administrative data from its licensees, which provide high quality outputs. There was a complete methodology supervision in 2013, since then the forms have guidelines for completing. This guidelines were discussed with the data suppliers.

In 2018 (parallel with the improvement of the Eurostat methodology) the HEA made some corrections in the methodology, clarified some remaining questions and initiated an additive reporting obligatory for the DSO’s to improve its report’s quality.

So, there are 3 time series, which are not fully comparable:

-        before 2013 (partially validated data)

-        2013-2017 (fixed methodology)

-        2018 onwards (different methodology on network costs and taxes)

Two semesters by the date of the publication.

Not applicable

Not applicable

Not applicable

The annual prices are coherent with the semestrial prices.

Not assessed, it is not a significant cost for HEA.

The current method is the best solution to reach high quality data, but minimalize the burden of respondents. The current respondents register the collected data in their system for business purposes, therefore data collection implies only limited additional costs.

There is no systematic revision, if needed, data is updated with the next upload cycle.

The HEA collects full-scale administrative data from its licensees, which provide high quality outputs. There was a complete methodology supervision in 2013, since then the forms have guidelines for completing. This guidelines were discussed with the data suppliers.

In 2018 (parallel with the improvement of the Eurostat methodology) the HEA made some corrections in the methodology, clarified some remaining questions and initiated an additive reporting obligatory for the DSO’s to improve its report’s quality.

So, there are 3 time series, which are not comparable:

-        before 2013 (partially validated data)

-        2013-2017 (fixed methodology)

-        2018 onwards (different methodology on network costs and taxes)

The settlements between the participants of the electricity market can be done up to after two months of the reference period, they can initiate self-revision on their reports. The provided data is used several parts of HEA, more colleagues check the data and that is why the clarification takes time. In every reporting period HEA check the previous data sets if there is any changes and updates the reports.

Household electricty prices collection: 0

Non-household electricity prices collection: 0.000315133

Sources are of administrative reports as followed (electricity)

V611 Electricity trading licensees sales to endusers by category, population 82/82 (all electricity traders that have a license to supply end-users)

V711 Universal electricity service provider licensees sales to end-users by category, population: 2/2 (all universal electricity service providers that have a license to supply end-users)

V215 Large power plants sales to end-users, population: 18, all large power plants (above 50 MW)

V513 Network costs from electricity distribution system operator licensees, population: 6/6, all electricity DSOs

V413 Network costs from transmission system operator licensee, population: the Hungarian electricity TSO

Monthly

Data collection is organized through the Authority’s data collector system called EIA. The reports are designed in Excel and tested by other colleagues. Some data collections made by connected servers automatically. There is 0% non response rate.

The questionnaires can be found here:

https://njt.hu/jogszabaly/2017-11-20-5Z appendix 4>V215.PDF

https://njt.hu/jogszabaly/2017-11-20-5Z appendix 8>V413.PDF

https://njt.hu/jogszabaly/2017-11-20-5Z appendix 10>V513.PDF

https://njt.hu/jogszabaly/2017-11-20-5Z appendix 11>V611.PDF

https://njt.hu/jogszabaly/2017-11-20-5Z appendix 13>V711.PDF

Comparison to T-1 and T-2 data

Timeline analysis

Outlier detection

Investigating inconsistencies in the statistics

Reconciliation of the statistics with other relevant data sources (e.g. organised electricity market prices)

Aggregation of the reports.

On each report we gather the volumes, prices, price components.

From the total volume, prices, price elements, an average price is produced, thus this is a weighted average. However, the collected data is never the average price.

0%

None.

Seasonable adjustments are not carried out.