National Institute for Statistics (NIS)

Romanian Energy Regulatory Authority (ANRE)

NIS - Department of Short Term Business Statistics

ANRE - Electricity Market Monitoring Service (SMPE)

NIS - 16, Libertatii Avenue, District 5 Bucharest RO 050706 Romania

ANRE - Cotroceni Street, No. 4

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.
• The VAT is recoverable for non-households.

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.

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

Household customers: Data coming from 62 suppliers out of 62 and representing 100% of the household customers.

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

All regions of Romania are covered.

Electricity prices data for Romania are available since 2003 for industrial customers and 2005 for households. 

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) 2019/803 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:

• Cooperation Agreement signed between National Institute of Statistics and ANRE for providing data/information related to electricity prices. The Cooperation Agreement is not public available.

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:

• The statistical law no 226/2009 regarding the organisation of official statistics.

Published data should not allow identification of single consumers.

Romania does not publish the data.

Romania does not publish the data.

Romania does not publish the data.

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

Romania does not produce press release.

Romania does not produce publication for this statistical domain.

Romania does not have online data base for this subject.

Romania does not produce any data tables.

Acces to microdata are not available.

Romania does not produce other dissemination format for this statistical domain.

Romania does not produce other dissemination format for this statistical domain.

No documentation regardihg methodology for this statistical domain is available.

Not applicable

The quality declaration available on NIS site: http://www.insse.ro/cms/en/content/quality-national-statistical-system

The system of official statistics follows international and European quality standards http://www.insse.ro/cms/en/content/quality-national-statistical-system

NIS Romania has adopted the UN fundamental Principles for Official Statistics as well as the European Statistics Code of practice.

As 100% of the population is covered and that there is no errors due to non-response rate, the quality of the data is considered as very high.

The data are relevant because are required by European legislation.

No special needs for this domain have been identify at national level.

We conduct a user satisfaction survey every three years. The latest one was in 2018.The publication can be found at the following link: http://www.insse.ro/cms/sites/default/files/field/publicatii/analiza_gradului_de_satisfactie_al_utilizatorilor_2018.pdf. This publication presents the way in which the statistical data produced and the methodological information of the INS meet the information needs of the various user categories. It includes a presentation of the main results of the statistical survey on the "Satisfaction of statistical data users”, respectively the profile of INS statistical data users, the confidence in the INS and the statistical data produced by INS, the assessment of the quality of the data produced by INS.

Data are compliant with european legislation and Eurostat requirments.

All breakdowns and variable are provided, according to the EU regulations in force.

All data required are provided.

The 100% of the population covered.

Not applicable as no sampling is performed (100% of the population covered).

Not applicable

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

There is no coverage error. All type of users are well represented as 100% of the population is covered.

We are not aware of any over-coverage.

The data is coming 100% from the survey conducted by ANRE.

The ANRE/NIS are not doing measurement as it get the data from the suppliers but the suppliers might have some measurement errors. These errors are not assessed. However, most of them are detected by the means of outlier detections, time series coherence etc and double checked with the suppliers concerned.

There is no non-response error as all suppliers respond fully to the survey.

Not the case

Not the case

Taking into account that we have a fully automated system, the processing error can be considered as negligible. If some calculations are done manually, processing error can happen more frequently but we have the system in place to detect them or reduce the potential mistakes (double / triple checks, coherence with time series, outlier detections, etc.)

Not Applicable.

Electricity providers that participate in the national data collection are requested to provide the electricity price data within 6 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 [78] days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 2nd semester of 2019 was sent [76] days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 1st semester of 2020 was sent [86] days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 2nd semester of 2020 was sent [76] days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 1st semester of 2021 was sent [62] days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 2nd semester of 2021 was sent [76] days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 1st semester of 2019 was sent [78] days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2019 was sent [76] days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 1st semester of 2020 was sent [86] days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2020 was sent [76] days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 1st semester of 2021 was sent [62] days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2021 was sent [76] days after the reference period.

Not applicable.

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

The electricity price questionnaire for households for and non-households for the 1st semester of 2019 was sent [78] days after the reference period.

The electricity price questionnaire for households and for and non-households for the 2nd semester of 2019 was sent [76] days after the reference period.

The electricity price questionnaire for households and for and non-households for the 1st semester of 2020 was sent [86] days after the reference period.

The electricity price questionnaire for households and for and non-households for the 2nd semester of 2020 was sent [76] days after the reference period.

The electricity price questionnaire for households and for and non-households for the 1st semester of 2021 was sent [62] days after the reference period.

The electricity price questionnaire for households and for and non-households for the 2nd semester of 2021 was sent [76] days after the reference period.

The data is comparable between countries and region.

Not applicable

There have been no changes.

The data is comparable since 2003 for industrial consumers and 2005 for households.

Not applicable

Not applicable

Not applicable

Annual prices is coherent with the semestrial prices.

Creates additional administrative burden for suppliers that can’t be quantified. Data collected is limited to what is necessary and electronic means are used to facilitate data collection.

It is difficult, almost impossible to estimate the time necessary for the suppliers to collect, validate and submit the data to ANRE. The reason is that each supplier has a different type and number of clients, have their own internal organisation of the data related to their clients and different number of staff involved in this specific task.

From the ANRE perspective, 10-11 weeks are necessary to collect, validate and submit the data to NSI (equivalent of 1 person worked 20 days).

From NSI perspective, 1 person worked 1 day, twice a year, to prepare and submit the data to Eurostat.

Data revision policy follow the Revision Policy of the NIS Romania, which represent one of the key documents of the office. The same revision policy is applied to all the data released nationally and transmitted to Eurostat.

Not applicable. We do not plan any revision.

Households gas prices collection (PRGAH): 0

Non-households gas prices collection (PRGAI): 0

Reports from energy suppliers that have final customers.

Twice a year.

Suppliers fill data in monitoring templates, send and upload them into the ANRE database. The monitoring template is developed by ANRE in accordance with the data requested by the National Institute of Statistics.

ANRE verified the data reported by suppliers. Several processing reports are used to check the data, respectively: using the correct measurement units, reporting electricity prices in the estimated ranges, reporting the VAT and excise duties is in accordance with the legal provisions. If inconsistences are identified, ANRE notifies suppliers to check the data and correct it. The process is repeated until ANRE validates the data received.

In the compilation process no imputations were made but we are performing weighted averages.

Not the case.

Not the case.

Seasonable adjustments are not carried out.