Greeks pay up for electricity

Prices successful the wholesale energy marketplace whitethorn beryllium falling, driven by the precocious penetration of renewables, but the payment does not scope the retail market. Consumers successful Greece paid the third highest terms of kilowatt-hour successful Europe successful 2025, and the costliest successful terms of purchasing power.

In 2025, retail rates successful terms of nominal prices and purchasing power, were, respectively, €36.50 per megawatt-hour (or 29.3%) and €72.60/MWh (57.8%) much costly than the European average.

The vast bulk of consumers with greenish tariffs (58% astatine the extremity of 2025) paid an mean of 13.3% much per KWh than bluish tariffs and 27.3% much than yellow tariffs, which were the cheapest enactment successful the 2024-2025 two-year period.

According to the investigation of colored tariffs by Green Tank, based connected information from RAAEY, if each consumers with greenish tariffs chose the cheapest yellow tariff each month, they would trim their energy costs by €1.23 cardinal implicit the two-year period.

The conclusions of the Green Tank study connected the retail vigor marketplace successful Greece, based connected some Eurostat and RAAEY information for 2024-2025, uncover the disproportionate costs that consumers successful Greece wage compared to consumers successful the remainder of Europe, particularly when vigor poorness successful the state remains astatine very precocious levels. 

According to Eurostat, the stock of Greek households with overdue debts connected utility bills successful 2025 was 31.9%, 4.5 times higher than the EU-27 mean (7%).

The study compares lone energy supply prices, excluding each taxes, levies and web charges, for instance, the competitory portion of the energy bill, which is besides the indicator of marketplace competitiveness. 

Data amusement that the retail marketplace successful terms of the competitory portion of tariffs successful Greece is implicit clip overmuch much costly than the EU average, some successful nominal prices and based connected purchasing power. 

The spread with the European mean widened during the vigor situation of 2022, conscionable under €200/MWh successful nominal terms terms and €269.50/MWh if purchasing powerfulness is taken into account.