In the third quarter of 2025, Bermuda had the highest household electricity prices worldwide, followed by Ireland, Italy, and Germany. At the time, Irish households were charged around 0.44 U.S. dollars per kilowatt-hour, while in Italy, the price stood at 0.42 U.S. dollars per kilowatt-hour. By comparison, in Russia, residents paid almost 10 times less. What is behind electricity prices? Electricity prices vary widely across the world and sometimes even within a country itself, depending on factors like infrastructure, geography, and politically determined taxes and levies. For example, in Denmark, Belgium, and Sweden, taxes constitute a significant portion of residential end-user electricity prices. Reliance on fossil fuel imports Meanwhile, thanks to their great crude oil and natural gas production output, countries like Iran, Qatar, and Russia enjoy some of the cheapest electricity prices in the world. Here, the average household pays less than 0.1 U.S. dollars per kilowatt-hour. In contrast, countries heavily reliant on fossil fuel imports for electricity generation are more vulnerable to market price fluctuations.

This dataset provides values for ELECTRICITY PRICE reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.

Australia is facing a fundamental rewiring of its electricity markets. As consumers, investors and governments clamour for more renewable generation, large-scale wind power is receiving an influx of capacity investment. Windy states, like South Australia and Victoria, are producing more of their electricity from wind as Australia prepares to retire the large coal-fired power stations that have powered Australia's economy for the last 50 years. Other smaller forms of renewable generation, like biomass, tidal and geothermal generation, have taken a back seat. The Federal Government's Renewable Energy Target lets eligible generators sell Large-scale Generation Certificates (LGCs), creating another income source that has justified ongoing investment in new wind power projects. Although LGC prices are sliding down as more generators flood the market, skyrocketing wholesale prices have been a welcome contrast, allowing many wind power generators to cash in on high prices on the spot market, driving up industrywide profitability. High prices have also driven expected annualised revenue growth of 10.6% over the five years through 2025-26, to reach $3.5 billion. This includes an expected hike of 4.3% in 2025-26 as moderating wholesale prices are offset by rising generation capacity. In 2021-22, turmoil in global energy markets, outages, weather patterns and high demand combined to raise wholesale prices in the National Electricity Market to unsustainable levels. Although prices have since eased, they remain well above pre-pandemic levels. Looking ahead, wind generation capacity is only going to increase as federal and state governments strive to hit their emissions reduction goals. Offshore wind farms will offer even more room for capacity growth, with Victoria earmarking the technology as part of its investment in renewable sources. Although offshore wind is more costly to develop and maintain, it’s projected to result in medium- and long-term growth in generation capacity. For the private sector, Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) are gaining popularity, allowing businesses to meet their sustainability targets, ensure a reliable flow of energy and manage risk in volatile wholesale markets. Overall, revenue is forecast to soar at an annualised 20.4% through 20230-31, to hit $8.8 billion, driven by continued strong expansion of generation capacity.

The assumption of expected profit-maximizing bidding behavior in a multi-unit, multi-period auction with step-function supply curves is used to estimate cost functions for electricity generation units and derive tests of expected profit-maximizing behavior. Applying these techniques to data from the National Electricity Market in Australia reveals statistically significant evidence of output-dependent marginal costs within and across half-hours of the day, but no evidence against the hypothesis of expected profit-maximizing behavior. These cost function estimates quantify the economic significance of output-varying costs and how forward financial contract obligations impact the amount of these costs the generation unit owner incurs. This supplier's existing obligations imply average daily production costs that are 8% lower than the profit-maximizing pattern of output with no forward contract obligations.

Cost-of-Goods-Sold-Including-Depreciation-and-Amortization Time Series for AGL Energy Ltd. AGL Energy Limited, together with its subsidiaries, supplies energy and other essential services in Australia. It operates through in segments: Customer Markets, Integrated Energy, and Investments. The company engages in the retailing of electricity, gas, broadband/mobile/voice, and solar and energy efficiency products and services; and selling, marketing, and branding of customer contact, as well as call center operations. It also operates power generation facilities, including coal, gas-fired, wind, hydro, solar, grid-scale batteries, and natural gas storage; and other firming and storage technology. In addition, the company is involved in the development projects. Further, it provides electric vehicle services, such as electricity plans, chargers, and subscriptions; and moving house services. It serves the residential, small and large businesses, wholesale, energy, telecommunications, and Netflix customers. The company was founded in 1837 and is based in Sydney, Australia.

The Aluminium Smelting industry's performance has improved in recent years. Exports continue to take up over 85% of industry revenue as rising export prices place upwards pressure on industry revenue. Recovering demand from major domestic markets over recent years has further seen revenue grow as the low value-to-weight ratio of industry products typically makes high-volume imports uneconomical. Overall, industry revenue is expected to rise at an annualised 2.0% over the five years through 2023-24, to $6.78 billion. This includes an anticipated rise of 5.2% in the current year.Australia is the world's largest producer of major industry inputs like bauxite and is a substantial producer of alumina, giving producers consistent and secure supply of major inputs. However, the country ranks lower in global aluminium output, with China being the leading producer. Bauxite mining, alumina production and aluminium smelting industries are connected along the same supply chain. Industry operators use energy-intensive processes to smelt aluminium from alumina, which has been previously extracted from bauxite ore. Due to the energy-intensive nature of this process, profit has declined over recent years due to inflated energy costs arising from the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Aluminium prices have been volatile and increased significantly, limiting profit margin decline. Energy costs have been similarly volatile, with wholesale electricity prices increasing rapidly.The Aluminium Smelting industry is projected to grow over the next few years with industry revenue forecast to rise at an annualised 0.1% through 2028-29, to $6.8 billion. Australia's rising population is likely to place pressure on existing systems and expand demand for industry products and downstream manufacturing. These trends are projected to boost industry revenue, as new construction and manufacturing will raise demand for aluminium smelting and casting alike. Major players are further forecast to increasingly shift to green energy in order to cut down on emissions and energy costs. The industry is likely to face stronger competition from overseas manufacturers, although imports are likely to remain weak in comparison to exports.

In financial year 2025, the average market price of gas in Sydney, Australia was ***** Australian dollars per gigajoule. This was a slight increase from the previous year.