Electricity prices for households in the Netherlands 2010-2021, semi-annually

Household electricity prices in the Netherlands averaged 12.81 euro cents for consumers that used between 2.500 and 5.000 kWh in the first half of 2021. Between the first half of 2010 and the first half of 2015, electricity prices for households in the Netherlands saw a relatively steady increase in prices, rising to 19.86 euro cents per kilowatt hour. This was despite prices in 2014 dropping. In the years following 2015, prices began to decline, but by the second half of 2018 had increased again to 17.18 cents per kilowatt-hour, before reaching 20.67 cents per kilowatt-hour in the first half of 2019.

Annual electricity bills

Compared to other European countries such as Denmark, Germany and neighboring Belgium, households in the Netherlands paid a relatively low prices for electricity in 2020. In this year, the average price per kilowatt hour for households using between 1.000 and 2.500 kWh was 5.45 euro cents. Contrary to the trend in most other European countries, consumer in the Netherlands pay less when their annual consumption is between 1.000 and 2.500 kWh compared to consumers using between 2.500 and 5.000 kWh annually.

Electricity quality

Households in the Netherlands enjoy some of the highest quality electricity supplies in the world. In 2019 the electricity supply had an index score of 99.5.