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1.1. Contact organisation | Energie-Control Austria für die Regulierung der Elektrizitäts- und Erdgaswirtschaft (E-Control) |
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1.2. Contact organisation unit | Regulation & Competition |
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1.5. Contact mail address | Rudolfsplatz 13A |
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2.1. Metadata last certified | 06/07/2022 | ||
2.2. Metadata last posted | 06/07/2022 | ||
2.3. Metadata last update | 15/06/2022 |
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3.1. Data description | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
European statistics on electricity prices for household and final non-household customers. |
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3.2. Classification system | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Internal Eurostat classification system based on annual electricity consumption bands and tax levels. |
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3.3. Coverage - sector | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Household sector and final non-household sector (industry, services, offices, agriculture, etc). |
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3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The prices are reported in national currencies per kWh and according to different bands of consumption. For the household sector, these bands are:
For the final non-household sector, the bands are:
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:
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:
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) and the consumption of the households and non-households for each consumer bands.
Some of the taxes are refundable. Here is a description of them:
In the table below are the taxes reported in "All other taxes"
For the reporting period 2019 to 2021 no state subsidy scheme was in place. |
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3.5. Statistical unit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Household and final non-household consumers divided into consumption bands. |
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3.6. Statistical population | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Household customers: Data coming from 147 suppliers out of 153 and representing 99,8% of the household customers. Final non-household customers: Data coming from 162 suppliers out of 167 and representing 99,6% of the final non-household customers. |
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3.7. Reference area | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Austrian price data covers the entire country. |
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3.8. Coverage - Time | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Electricity prices data for Austria are available since 2016. |
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3.9. Base period | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Not applicable. |
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Prices are reported in national currency per kWh. However, Eurostat also calculates and publishes the prices in EURO and PPS (purchasing power parity). |
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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). |
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6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements | |||
At EU level:
At national level: |
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6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing | |||
At EU level:
At national level:
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7.1. Confidentiality - policy | |||
At EU level:
At national level: |
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7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment | |||
Published data should not allow identification of single consumers. Cells with confidentiality problems will be suppressed. |
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8.1. Release calendar | |||
There is no release calendar. |
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8.2. Release calendar access | |||
There is no release calendar. |
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8.3. Release policy - user access | |||
New results are uploaded on our homepage. There is no information for special users. |
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Electricity prices in Austria are published on a semestrial basis on Eurostat's website. They are also published on the E-Control's homepage on a semestrial basis and in the Energy Prices and Taxes report of the IEA on a quarterly basis. |
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10.1. Dissemination format - News release | |||
No news release. |
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10.2. Dissemination format - Publications | |||
No other publications than those published on the website of E-Control. |
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10.3. Dissemination format - online database | |||
No database available. |
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10.3.1. Data tables - consultations | |||
Not applicable. |
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10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access | |||
Micro-data are accessible for researchers, but they can only publish aggregated data. |
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10.5. Dissemination format - other | |||
No other dissemination format. |
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10.5.1. Metadata - consultations | |||
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10.6. Documentation on methodology | |||
No metadata available at national level. |
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10.6.1. Metadata completeness - rate | |||
1 |
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10.7. Quality management - documentation | |||
See flowchart. Annexes: Flowchart of survey and data management process |
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11.1. Quality assurance | |||
E-Control has established quality guidelines. As an instance they include a 4-eyes principle. |
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11.2. Quality management - assessment | |||
The quality of the electricity prices is assessed to be high. |
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12.1. Relevance - User Needs | |||
Users in Austria are suppliers and companies who compare their own prices with the published prices. |
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12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction | |||
We did not perform any satisfaction survey on these datasets. |
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12.3. Completeness | |||
The datasets are complete. |
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12.3.1. Data completeness - rate | |||
100% |
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13.1. Accuracy - overall | |||
The overall accuracy of the electricity price data with its components and sub-components can be considered to be high with the exception of the relative shares of the transmission and distribution cost which are estimated. The most common error is the aggregation of the metering points to one customer to be assigned to consumption bands. There are discussions with the companies to reduce this bias. |
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13.2. Sampling error | |||
Not relevant as 99.8% of the household customers and 99.6% of the non-household customers are covered. |
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13.2.1. Sampling error - indicators | |||
Not relevant. |
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13.3. Non-sampling error | |||
Information is included in the sub-concepts S.13.3.1-S.13.3.5. |
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13.3.1. Coverage error | |||
Given the high percentage of the population covered, all kinds of units are well represented. |
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13.3.1.1. Over-coverage - rate | |||
We are not aware of any over-coverage in the data. |
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13.3.1.2. Common units - proportion | |||
100% |
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13.3.2. Measurement error | |||
Some wrong entries cannot be detected by checks. Sometimes data are delivered too late. Then they must be estimated. |
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13.3.3. Non response error | |||
Not relevant |
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13.3.3.1. Unit non-response - rate | |||
165 out of 171 suppliers, 99.8% of the target population, responded to the survey. |
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13.3.3.2. Item non-response - rate | |||
All suppliers provided information to all items. |
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13.3.4. Processing error | |||
A very small part of the consumers is classified in the wrong consumer band. In this case the prices are reported in the wrong consumer band. The impact of the total prices is negligible. |
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13.3.5. Model assumption error | |||
Not Applicable. |
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14.1. Timeliness | |||
Electricity providers that participate in the national data collection are requested to provide the electricity price data within 51 days 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. |
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14.1.1. Time lag - first result | |||
The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 1st semester of 2019 was sent 90 days after the reference period. The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 2nd semester of 2019 was sent 89 days after the reference period. The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 1st semester of 2020 was sent 95 days after the reference period. The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 2nd semester of 2020 was sent 89 days after the reference period. The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 1st semester of 2021 was sent 88 days after the reference period. The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 2nd semester of 2021 was sent 90 days after the reference period. The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 1st semester of 2019 was sent 90 days after the reference period. The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2019 was sent 89 days after the reference period. The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 1st semester of 2020 was sent 95 days after the reference period. The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2020 was sent 89 days after the reference period. The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 1st semester of 2021 was sent 88 days after the reference period. The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2021 was sent 90 days after the reference period. |
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14.1.2. Time lag - final result | |||
Version 2 of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 1st semester of 2020 was sent 270 days after the reference period. |
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14.2. Punctuality | |||
The legal deadline for submitting the questionnaires is the third month after the reference period. 96,5% of all national electricity providers report the price data on time to our institute. |
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14.2.1. Punctuality - delivery and publication | |||
The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households and non-households for the 1st semester of 2020 was sent 5 days after the deadline. |
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15.1. Comparability - geographical | |||
There is no problem of comparability between countries. |
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15.1.1. Asymmetry for mirror flow statistics - coefficient | |||
Not applicable |
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15.2. Comparability - over time | |||
2nd semester 2017 - transition to census instead of sample survey |
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15.2.1. Length of comparable time series | |||
The data is comparable since 2017. |
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15.3. Coherence - cross domain | |||
Not applicable |
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15.3.1. Coherence - sub annual and annual statistics | |||
Not applicable |
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15.3.2. Coherence - National Accounts | |||
Not applicable |
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15.4. Coherence - internal | |||
Annual prices are coherent with the semestrial prices. |
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It is not possible for us to estimate the cost and burden for 1 particular project. |
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17.1. Data revision - policy | |||
Usually the last period will be revised, if companies have sent new data for this period in the meantime. |
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17.2. Data revision - practice | |||
Data are revised if suppliers are sending the prices after the deadline or they are revising the prices. In this case the revision is sent with the next data transmission. |
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17.2.1. Data revision - average size | |||
Households electricity prices collection (PRELH): 0.00035261 Non-household electricity prices collection (PRELI): 0.000489834 |
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18.1. Source data | |||
Data are collected from suppliers and network operators. They use their billing system to extract the average price data and the respective sub-components for each consumption band. |
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18.2. Frequency of data collection | |||
Electricity prices for household and non-household consumers are collected from electricity providers every 6 month. |
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18.3. Data collection | |||
The electricity price data are reported from all suppliers and network operators in Austria by using Excel questionnaires provided by our institute. All components of the bill are asked either on the supplier side or on the network operator side. The individual components are summarize to the asked sub-components of the Eurostat questionnaire. |
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18.4. Data validation | |||
The data is validated by using the build-in validation tools of the Eurostat questionnaires. They are also compared with the previous period. |
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18.5. Data compilation | |||
Sometimes small suppliers report too late. In this case the prices of the last period are imputed. The national average prices are calculated by using the individual market share of each supplier and each network operator in each consumption band. |
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18.5.1. Imputation - rate | |||
< 5% |
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18.6. Adjustment | |||
Not available |
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18.6.1. Seasonal adjustment | |||
Seasonable adjustments are not carried out. |
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