Share of taxes and levies in non-household electricity price
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34.8%
European Union · as of 30 Jun 2020
Share of taxes and levies in non-household electricity price in the European Union averaged 34.8% as of 30 June 2020 (Eurostat).
- Publisher
- Eurostat
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- Electricity prices highest in Ireland and Cyprus
- Retrieved
- 15 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
The proportion of taxes rose by 21.0 pp, from 13.8% in the first half of 2008 to 34.8% in the first half of 2020, before declining.
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- APA
- Statistical Office of the European Union. (2020). Electricity price statistics. Retrieved September 15, 2026, from https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Electricity_price_statistics. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC42G6MK2ANJH18YFG6
- MLA
- Statistical Office of the European Union. "Electricity price statistics." 2020, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Electricity_price_statistics. Accessed 15 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC42G6MK2ANJH18YFG6.
- Chicago
- Statistical Office of the European Union. "Electricity price statistics." 2020. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Electricity_price_statistics. Accessed September 15, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC42G6MK2ANJH18YFG6.
- BibTeX
- @misc{eurostat2020share18yfg6, author = {{Statistical Office of the European Union}}, title = {Electricity price statistics}, year = {2020}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC42G6MK2ANJH18YFG6}, note = {Original source: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Electricity\_price\_statistics. Accessed September 15, 2026.} }
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Primary Source
- Publisher
- Statistical Office of the European Union · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- Electricity price statistics
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- —
- Locator
- Electricity prices highest in Ireland and Cyprus
- Retrieved
- 15 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See source
Verification & Integrity
- Audit status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 15 September 2026
- Last revision
- 15 September 2026
- Archival URI
- /stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC42G6MK2ANJH18YFG6