Electricity price guides
How electricity prices work – explained with data from the European day-ahead market, updated every day.
Why do electricity prices go negative?
Why day-ahead electricity prices fall below zero, how often it happens in each European market and what it means for households and solar owners – with data from the last 12 months.
Read the guide →Who saves with a dynamic electricity tariff?
How dynamic electricity tariffs follow the day-ahead price, what you need, the risks, and how much shifting consumption is worth in each European market – with data from the last 30 days.
Read the guide →Why electricity now has a price every 15 minutes
Since 1 October 2025 the European day-ahead market sets 96 prices a day instead of 24. What quarter-hour prices are, how much they differ within an hour and what changes for consumers.
Read the guide →When is electricity cheapest?
The cheapest and most expensive times of day for electricity in each European market over the last 90 days, how weekends and seasons differ and how network tariffs change the picture.
Read the guide →How the electricity price is set every day
Every day at noon, buyers and sellers across Europe settle tomorrow's power prices in one auction. How it works, why neighbouring countries often pay the same, and when they don't.
Read the guide →What makes up your electricity price
Wholesale power, network charges, taxes and VAT: how a kilowatt-hour breaks down in each European country, from our own daily calculation and from Eurostat.
Read the guide →What does it cost to charge an electric car at home?
The cost of 100 km and of a year of driving when you charge at home, in every market we cover, at the average price and in the cheapest hours of the day.
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