Retail electricity price for households (EUR / kWh) - Euro Area - FetchSeries Research - Monthly
This series is part of the dataset: Retail prices in Europe (FSR)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In the Euro Area, the household retail electricity price was 0.330 EUR / kWh in August 2026, versus 0.328 in July. This represents an increase of 0.6 percent.
Sample. This monthly series has 368 data points overall. The series covers the time period going from January 1996 to August 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some simple statistics we calculated on the full sample: the household retail electricity price was equal on average to 0.194 EUR / kWh; it reached a trough of 0.124 in December 1999; it hit a peak of 0.375 in October 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - EUR / kWh |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 0.324020 |
| 2026-07-31 | 0.328408 |
| 2026-08-31 | 0.330361 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Retail electricity price for households |
| Country | Euro Area |
| Economic concept | Price |
| Data type | Price |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Deflation method | Current prices |
| Rescaling | None |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Unit | EUR / kWh |
| Source | FetchSeries Research; calculations on Eurostat data |
| Source type | Data research lab |
| Data licence | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) + FetchSeries disclaimers |
| Other information | Consumption band: 2,500–4,999 kWh per year; all taxes and levies included |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LM1 |
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Aggregates
| Series Name | Observations | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Retail electricity price for households (EUR / kWh) - European Union - FetchSeries Research - Monthly | 321 | 1999-12-31 | 2026-08-31 |
| Retail electricity price for households (EUR / kWh) - Euro Area - FetchSeries Research - Monthly | 368 | 1996-01-31 | 2026-08-31 |