EU household electricity prices & most energy-efficient appliances
Open data maintained by EarlyDex, updated monthly. Also on
Zenodo (archived release of each version) and Kaggle.
data/electricity_prices_eu.csv: average household electricity price in the 27 EU countries
(€/kWh, all taxes included, Eurostat 2026-S1).data/efficient_appliances.csv: 3,894 fridge-freezers, refrigerators, washing machines, heat-pump
tumble dryers and dishwashers from the official EU energy label database (EPREL), ranked by energy efficiency index, with
the annual electricity cost in Germany and France.data/report_2026_cost_by_country.csv and data/report_2026_models_by_class.csv: the tables of the
EarlyDex report 2026 (all 36,894 washing
machines, dishwashers and tumble dryers registered in EPREL: share of each energy class and technology, same-size
medians, and the yearly cost of three typical appliances in each EU country).
Last update: 2026-10-25.
Report 2026: key figures
- The household price per kWh differs 3.4× across the EU, from Hungary (0.114 €) to Ireland (0.387 €) (Eurostat 2026-S1).
- 62 % of the washing machines registered in EPREL are energy class A, against 12 % of dishwashers and
4 % of tumble dryers.
- At 8 kg, a heat-pump dryer uses a median 116 kWh per 100 cycles, against 307 for a conventional condenser dryer.
- Choosing class A instead of a typical model for the three appliances saves 46 € a year in Germany and
31 € in France.
Full report: Français ·
Deutsch.
Electricity prices (2026-S1)
| Country | €/kWh |
|---|
| Ireland | 0.3871 |
| Germany | 0.3618 |
| Belgium | 0.3575 |
| Austria | 0.3260 |
| Italy | 0.3142 |
| Sweden | 0.3062 |
| Poland | 0.2999 |
| Czechia | 0.2884 |
| Romania | 0.2836 |
| Finland | 0.2694 |
| Cyprus | 0.2688 |
| Spain | 0.2509 |
| France | 0.2485 |
| Netherlands | 0.2440 |
| Latvia | 0.2415 |
| Greece | 0.2401 |
| Denmark | 0.2375 |
| Portugal | 0.2367 |
| Lithuania | 0.2162 |
| Estonia | 0.2118 |
| Slovenia | 0.2118 |
| Luxembourg | 0.2023 |
| Slovakia | 0.1985 |
| Croatia | 0.1816 |
| Bulgaria | 0.1341 |
| Malta | 0.1268 |
| Hungary | 0.1139 |
Most efficient appliances (rank 1 in each category)
Full rankings with filters by brand and size: earlydex.com/de/bestenlisten
(German) · earlydex.com/fr/classements (French).
Method
- Prices: Eurostat table
nrg_pc_204, household consumers with 2 500–4 999 kWh per year, all taxes and
levies included, latest half-year.
- Appliances: models with status published in EPREL, from mainstream brands, with plausible values.
Records whose declared energy class contradicts their energy efficiency index (EEI) are dropped.
References with identical label values (same appliance sold under several model numbers, sometimes under a
sister brand) are grouped into one row;
identical_references counts the others.
- Ranking: by EEI (lower is better), then label consumption, then programme duration, then noise.
- Annual cost: label consumption × the country's average price. Washing machines assume 4 cycles per week,
dishwashers 5, tumble dryers 3; refrigerating appliances use the label's annual value.
earlydex_page is filled for the models that have their own page on EarlyDex; every row links to its
official EPREL record.
Calculator for any appliance and country: earlydex.com.
License and citation
The data compilation is released under CC BY 4.0. Please cite:
EarlyDex, EU household electricity prices and energy-efficient appliances (EarlyDex open data),
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23540271 (data: Eurostat; EU energy label database EPREL, European Commission).
Sources: Eurostat (CC BY 4.0) · EPREL, European Product Registry for Energy Labelling (European Commission).
EarlyDex is not affiliated with the European Commission or Eurostat.
