Electricity Prices in Europe 2026

The EU-27 average household electricity price is 0.2832 EUR per kWh in H1 2026, down 2.2 percent on H2 2025 (0.2896 EUR per kWh). It is Eurostat’s average across the EU-27 member states for a household in consumption band DC, with all taxes and levies included. Individual countries sit well above and below it, from Ireland at 0.3871 EUR per kWh down to Hungary at 0.1139.

Türkiye has the cheapest household electricity in the table at 0.0657 EUR per kWh in H1 2026. Inside the EU-27, Hungary is the cheapest at 0.1139 EUR per kWh. At the other end of the ranking, Ireland has the most expensive electricity in Europe at 0.3871 EUR per kWh, just over three times the Hungarian price.

Every household price comes from the same Eurostat collection, quoted for the same usage: consumption band DC, a home using 2,500 to 4,999 kWh per year, in EUR per kWh with all taxes and levies included, so countries are compared on the same basis. Business prices use band IC instead and exclude VAT and other recoverable taxes, because businesses reclaim them.

The gap is mostly taxes, network costs and how each country generates its power. In H1 2026 a household in Ireland pays 0.3871 EUR per kWh while one in Hungary pays 0.1139, a difference of more than three to one. Taxes and levies alone account for 46.9 percent of the price in Poland but only 5.9 percent in Malta, and countries with cheap hydro, geothermal or regulated tariffs sit at the bottom of the table.

Band DC is the household size Eurostat uses for its headline comparison: a home using between 2,500 and 4,999 kWh of electricity per year. Every household price on WattIndex is quoted for band DC, so countries are compared on the same usage. Households that use much more or much less can face a different average unit price, because fixed charges are spread over a different number of kilowatt hours.

The household price is the full amount paid per kilowatt hour: the energy itself, network charges for transporting it, supplier costs and margin, and all taxes and levies. The tax share column shows taxes and levies as a percentage of that total, from 46.9 percent in Poland down to a negative figure in the Netherlands (minus 9.9 percent), where the published tax component is negative. Business prices are shown excluding VAT and other recoverable taxes, because businesses reclaim them.

Eurostat publishes household and business prices twice a year. Figures for the first half of a year appear around October, and figures for the second half around the following April. H1 2026, covering January to June 2026, is the most recent half-year Eurostat has published, so it is the current edition on this site. Each figure is an average over six months, not a price for a single day.

The UK is no longer part of the Eurostat collection, which has published no UK values since 2020. Rather than mix methodologies, WattIndex keeps the UK out of every ranking and shows it separately: Ofgem’s price cap for October to December 2026 sets an average unit rate of 26.32p per kWh with a standing charge of 54.83p per day for Direct Debit customers. That figure is in pence and built differently, so it is a comparison panel, not a table entry.

Use the calculators on this site. The annual bill calculator multiplies your yearly usage in kWh by your country’s H1 2026 average unit price and can add a standing charge if your tariff has one: at the German average of 0.3618 EUR per kWh, 3,500 kWh costs EUR 1,266.30 a year before any standing charge. The EV calculator prices a charge or 100 km of driving, and the appliance calculator prices any device from its wattage and running time. Because the inputs are national averages, treat the results as estimates, not quotes.