Consumer electricity prices | Austria

The collection of electricity prices depends on whether or not the country has liberalized or regulated power markets. In regulated markets, the government periodically announces new tariff structures. Globalpetrolprices.com uses these documents to distill the information into the numbers that you see in the data set. The challenge is to have country-specific methodologies that ensure consistency across countries and over time using documents in local languages and changing formats. In liberalized markets, Globalpetrolprices.com takes power prices from the current offers of the largest electricity providers, the cost of distribution and transmission from the regulators, and the various applicable taxes and fees from additional research. More weight gives to providers with a larger market share. Globalpetrolprices.com also researchs to see if the government has adopted any price support mechanisms as the ones that became widespread after the energy price shock in 2022. Here the challenge is to pull information from a variety of sources and to not miss anything.