{"id":669893,"date":"2026-10-30T13:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T13:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/669893\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T13:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T13:34:08","slug":"ireland-had-highest-eu-electricity-prices-in-first-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/669893\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland had highest EU electricity prices in first half"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New figures from Eurostat show that Ireland had the highest electricity prices at \u20ac0.39 per kWh in the European Union in the first half of this year.<\/p>\n<p>It was followed by Germany and Belgium, both with prices of \u20ac0.36 per kWh.<\/p>\n<p>Eurostat said the lowest prices were recorded in Hungary at \u20ac0.11, as well as Malta and Bulgaria &#8211; both at \u20ac0.13 each.<\/p>\n<p>Six countries reported prices above \u20ac0.30 per kWh, while five countries recorded prices below \u20ac0.20 per kWh, Eurostat noted.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s figures show that national currency comparisons show strong price movements in the first half of this year compared to the same time last year.<\/p>\n<p>Household electricity prices soared by 51.6% in Romania, while they rose by 19.8% in Ireland and by 18.4% in Finland. But some countries recorded sharp decreases, notably Denmark, with prices there falling by 31.7%, while prices in Luxembourg were down 24.1%.<\/p>\n<p>Eurostat said that average electricity prices for households in the EU decreased by 2.2% to \u20ac0.28 per kWh in the first half of 2026, down from \u20ac0.29 per kWh in the second half of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Prices remain well above levels from before the 2022 energy crisis, it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New figures from Eurostat show that Ireland had the highest electricity prices at \u20ac0.39 per kWh in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-669893","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\/669893","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=669893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}