Retail electricity price for households (EUR / kWh) - European Union - FetchSeries Research - Monthly
This series is part of the dataset: Retail prices in Europe (FSR)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In the European Union, the household retail electricity price stood at 0.322 EUR / kWh in August 2026, versus 0.319 in the previous month. This constitutes a gain of 0.8 percent.
Sample. There are 321 records in the monthly time series displayed in the figure above. The time period covered by the series extends from December 1999 to August 2026.
History. Have a look at a few summary statistics computed on the full sample: the household retail electricity price reached a minimum of 0.108 EUR / kWh in December 1999; it recorded its highest level of 0.337 in October 2022; it had a mean of 0.194.
Latest values
| Date | Value - EUR / kWh |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 0.316610 |
| 2026-07-31 | 0.319382 |
| 2026-08-31 | 0.321894 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Retail electricity price for households |
| Country | European Union |
| 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 |