{"id":433635,"date":"2026-05-05T16:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T16:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/433635\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T16:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T16:13:09","slug":"ireland-has-highest-household-electricity-prices-across-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/433635\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland has highest household electricity prices across the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Household electricity prices across the European Union remained broadly stable in the second half of 2025, according to the latest data from <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/web\/products-eurostat-news\/w\/ddn-20260505-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eurostat<\/a>, but Irish consumers continue to face the highest costs in the bloc.<\/p>\n<p>Average EU electricity prices edged up slightly to \u20ac28.96 per 100 kWh, compared with \u20ac28.79 in the first half of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the marginal increase, prices remain significantly higher than pre-2022 energy crisis levels, underlining the lasting impact of the surge in global energy costs.<\/p>\n<p>The modest rise was largely driven by higher taxes and levies rather than wholesale energy costs.<\/p>\n<p>Taxes increased to \u20ac0.0837 per kWh, up from \u20ac0.0804 earlier in the year, and now account for 28.9% of total household electricity bills.<\/p>\n<p>This offset a slight decline in pre-tax electricity prices, resulting in a net increase for consumers.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland recorded the highest household <a href=\"https:\/\/businessplus.ie\/tag\/electricity\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"3895\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">electricity <\/a>prices in the EU at \u20ac40.42 per 100 kWh, followed by Germany and Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>At the other end of the scale, Hungary, Malta and Bulgaria reported the lowest prices.<\/p>\n<p>Price movements varied sharply at national level.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland saw a significant annual increase of 32.7%, placing additional pressure on households and raising competitiveness concerns for businesses.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/energy-bills.jpg\" alt=\"household electricity prices\" class=\"wp-image-241446\"  \/>Ireland recorded the highest household electricity prices in the EU at \u20ac40.42 per 100 kWh, followed by Germany and Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>Romania and Austria also recorded steep rises, while countries such as France, Denmark and Cyprus experienced notable declines.<\/p>\n<p>When adjusted for purchasing power, Romania had the highest relative <a href=\"https:\/\/extra.ie\/tag\/electricity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">electricity <\/a>costs, highlighting ongoing disparities in energy affordability across the EU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Household electricity prices across the European Union remained broadly stable in the second half of 2025, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-433635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}