Energy Information Administration
Table Posted: June 7, 2007
Next Update:August 2007 
Electricity Prices for Industry1 
(U.S. Dollars per Kilowatthour)
Country 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
Argentina NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.033 NA NA
Australia 0.047 0.050 0.045 0.044 0.049 0.054 0.061 NA NA
Austria 0.078 0.057 0.038 NA NA NA 0.096 0.102 0.109
Barbados NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.197 NA NA
Belgium 0.061 0.056 0.048 NA NA NA NA NA NA
Bolivia NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.051 NA NA
Brazil NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.047 NA NA
Canada 0.038 0.038 0.039 0.042 0.039 0.047 0.049 NA NA
Chile NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.057 NA NA
China NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) 0.058 0.059 0.061 0.056 0.053 0.053 0.055 0.057 0.056
Colombia NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.081 NA NA
Costa Rica NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.069 NA NA
Cuba NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.078 NA NA
Cyprus 0.072 0.074 0.087 0.079 0.082 0.104 0.107 0.125 0.167
Czech Republic 0.052 0.048 0.043 0.043 0.049 0.056 0.066 0.081 0.094
Denmark 0.068 0.066 0.058 0.060 0.070 0.092 0.096 NA NA
Dominican Republic NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.120 NA NA
Ecuador NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.089 NA NA
El Salvador NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.120 NA NA
Finland 0.050 0.046 0.039 0.038 0.043 0.065 0.072 0.070 NA
France 0.047 0.044 0.036 0.035 0.037 0.045 0.050 0.050 0.051
Germany 0.067 0.057 0.041 0.044 0.049 0.065 0.077 0.084 NA
Greece 0.050 0.050 0.042 0.043 0.046 0.056 0.063 0.067 NA
Grenada NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.188 NA NA
Guatemala NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.116 NA NA
Guyana NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.078 NA NA
Haiti NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.085 NA NA
Honduras NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.035 NA NA
Hungary 0.056 0.055 0.049 0.051 0.059 0.078 0.093 0.096 0.105
India 0.082 0.081 0.080 NA NA NA NA NA NA
Indonesia 0.025 0.029 0.040 NA NA NA NA NA NA
Ireland 0.060 0.057 0.049 0.060 0.075 0.094 0.096 0.099 0.122
Italy 0.095 0.086 0.089 0.107 0.113 0.147 0.162 0.174 NA
Jamaica NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.130 NA NA
Japan 0.128 0.143 0.143 0.127 0.115 0.122 0.127 0.121 NA
Kazakhstan 0.030 0.018 0.013 0.014 0.014 0.015 0.018 0.020 0.024
Korea, South 0.039 0.046 0.052 0.048 0.047 0.051 0.053 0.059 0.065
Mexico 0.038 0.042 0.051 0.053 0.056 0.063 0.078 0.088 0.099
Netherlands 0.062 0.061 0.057 0.059 C C C C C
New Zealand 0.038 0.033 0.028 0.028 0.033 0.046 0.051 0.055 0.053
Nicaragua NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.128 NA NA
Norway NA NA 0.019 0.025 0.031 0.046 0.043 0.043 0.055
Panama NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.099 NA NA
Paraguay NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.039 NA NA
Peru NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.079 NA NA
Poland 0.037 0.037 0.037 0.045 0.049 0.056 0.060 0.070 0.073
Portugal 0.090 0.078 0.067 0.066 0.068 0.083 0.093 0.098 0.110
Romania 0.045 0.037 0.044 0.042 0.053 0.067 0.071 0.096 NA
Russia NA NA NA 0.021 0.024 0.029 NA NA NA
Slovak Republic (Slovakia) 0.049 0.041 0.042 0.043 0.047 0.070 0.083 0.086 0.098
South Africa 0.020 0.017 0.017 0.013 0.012 0.019 NA NA NA
Spain 0.057 0.049 0.043 0.041 0.048 0.054 0.060 0.083 0.091
Suriname NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.123 NA NA
Sweden NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Switzerland 0.101 0.090 0.069 0.069 0.073 0.081 0.085 0.083 0.080
Thailand 0.053 0.054 0.057 0.056 0.057 0.060 0.063 NA NA
Trinidad and Tobago NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.037 NA NA
Turkey 0.075 0.079 0.080 0.079 0.094 0.099 0.100 0.107 0.100
United Kingdom 0.065 0.064 0.055 0.051 0.052 0.055 0.067 0.087 NA
United States 3 0.045 0.044 0.046 0.051 0.049 0.051 0.053 0.057 0.061
Uruguay NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.055 NA NA
Venezuela NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.032 NA NA
1 Energy end-use prices including taxes, converted using exchange rates.
2 Price excluding tax.  
3 Price includes State and local taxes, energy or demand charges, customer service charges, environmental surcharges,
franchise fees, fuel adjustments, and other miscellaneous charges applied to end-use customers during normal billing 
operations.  Prices do not include deferred charges, credist, or other adjustments, such as fuel or revenue from purchased 
power, from previous reporting periods.  
NA=Not available.
C=Confidential.
Sources: United States -- Energy Information Administration, Monthly Energy Review, May 2007, Table 9.9.
Other Countries -- International Energy Agency,  Energy Prices & Taxes - Quarterly Statistics, First Quarter 
2007, Part II, Section D, Table 21, and Part III, Section B, Table 18, 2007.   The Paris-based International Energy
Agency (IEA) maintains annual and quarterly time series of this price data that begin with the year 1978 and that
also include  the most recent quarterly prices.  Information on purchasing this data online from the IEA is available at: 
http://data.iea.org/ieastore/default.asp