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

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Compiling agency: National Statistics Office of Malta 

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

30 June 2025

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

 

In Malta, the VAT and the excise duties are not refundable.

Currently there are no subsidy schemes in place on taxes for the customers.

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

Household customers: Data coming from two administrative sources and representing 100% of the household customers.

Final non-household customers: Data coming from two administrative sources and representing 100% of the final non-household customers.

MALTA (MT)

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).

Due to absence of errors, the accuracy of the data is considered very good.

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.

NSO requests data from ARMS and Enemalta plc, for the semester that is required to send to Eurostat. In the administrative data, the following variables are provided: (i) the amount of units used in Malta, (ii) the sum of charge for these amounts and (iii) the price per kWh. This data is disaggregated by each consumption band. The sources provide such figures for the Residential, Domestic and Non-Residential which comply with the definitions used by other countries.

Once this data is received, some checks are undertaken even though it would have already been validated by the sources. The data is compared with the previous two semesters to check if there are any major changes in any of the bands. For all the found inconsistencies, NSO queries the sources to obtain the reasoning behind these changes from one semester to another.

For the electricity price questionnaire for households, NSO uses the figures for the Residential and the Domestic. In table 1 for the variable ‘All taxes excluded’ the excise tax is removed from the sum of charge to obtain the electricity prices. The excise tax is the only tax included in the sum of charge that needs to be obtained separately. In Malta, the excise tax is of €1.50 per MWh. In the variable ‘VAT excluded’ the excise tax is included but the VAT is not added. In the final variable ‘All taxes + VAT included’, the VAT is added to the figures in the variable ‘VAT excluded’.

In table 2 a disaggregation of the taxes is provided. This table is only sent in Semester 2. Enemalta plc provides the network costs for the corresponding year. First, the VAT is calculated, which is now calculated on averages of the whole calendar year. The excise tax in Malta is of €1.50 per MWh and falls under the variable ‘Environmental taxes’. Then the variable ‘Energy and supply’ is the amount when the network costs, the VAT and the Environmental taxes are subtracted. Currently there are no subsidy schemes in place on taxes for the customers.

Figures for table 3 are not available and thus they are flagged as ‘O’.

In table 4 the consumption volumes (%) for each consumption band are provided. Again, this table is only sent in Semester 2. The sum of units obtained from the administrative sources are used to calculate such percentages.

When NSO transmits the questionnaire for semester 2, a revised version of semester 1 is provided as well. The reason behind this is that the data up until NSO provides semester 1, does not capture all the units used. Also, when NSO transmits semester 1 of the following year, a revised version of semester 2 of the previous year is also transmitted.

The same procedure is followed for the electricity price questionnaire for non-households. In this case, the administrative data corresponding to the Non-Residential is used.

Electricity Prices

The sources for electricity prices data are ARMS and Enemalta plc which provide us with billing data. From ARMS and Enemalta, NSO receives administrative data which is used to compile the submissions sent to Eurostat on a semestrial basis.

Network Costs

The source for the network costs is the Enemalta plc which is the energy services provider in Malta. Each year, NSO receives the amount for the network costs for that particular year.

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

The administrative data sources are requested to provide the electricity price data within two/three 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.

In order to ensure comparability across all Member States, the definitions for electricity prices as stipulated in the Regulation (EU) 2016/1952 of the European Parliament and of the council of 26 October 2013 on European statistics on natural gas and electricity prices and repealing Directive 2008/92/EC were strictly adhered to. In addition, attention was devoted to the reporting of variables to ensure utmost adherence to the established criteria, specifications and regulations.

It should be noted that since in Malta there are only the Value Added Tax and the excise duties, comparisons cannot be made with other Member states for the remaining taxes.

To ensure comparability with previously reported data, the NSI deemed as important to extract data from a well-established data sources which were also utilised for previous data reporting exercises. The only difference from Semester 1 of the year 2017 onwards is that of the excise duties. In previous submissions the excise tax was aggregated with the total electricity prices. In recent submissions, the excise tax was removed from the variable All taxes excluded in table 1 and in table 2 and was listed under the variable Environmental taxes. Although in the revised submissions updates were made, there was no break in series.