Worth noting that those are the prices directly at the energy exchange. What people and companies will actually pay will differ from those values quite a bit due to taxes, fees etc.
this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2025
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Yes. In switzerland i pay 0.30CHF/kw/h where according to this map the cost for the energy alone is 0.07CHF/kw/h
Similar for the Netherlands
Can confirm, I live in the cheapest region of these (NO4, Northern Norway) and my prices were on average 6x what is on here due to fixed per kWh fees.
That colour scale can get in the bin.
where's iceland?
Not in the EU
Edit: Hmm, so is not Norway nor North Macedonia either. So I don't get the logic either behind why some countries are included and others aren't in this map.
It shows the bidding zones for wholesale electricity markets. This is also why Sweden, Norway and Italy are split in several prices.
It's not particularly interesting to anyone but those who trade electricity wholesale. I guess we can say that those with low prices have an overproduction and vice versa.
I guess because energy-charts.info decided so. If we don't get a statistic from a federal agency or EuroStat, I guess we can't expect consistent data respecting political territories.
Iceland is not part of the EU, that is correct, but it is part of Europe as far as I recall, or am I mistaken? It is part of Schengen, and is on the European council. Edit. And the EEA