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Last Update: June 10, 2010
Electricity Prices for Industry for Selected Countries1
(U.S. Dollars per Kilowatthour)
Country 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Argentina NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.049 NA NA
Australia 0.044 0.049 0.054 0.061 NA NA NA NA NA
Austria NA NA NA 0.096 0.102 0.109 0.134 0.154 NA
Barbados NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Belgium NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Bolivia NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Brazil NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.095 0.120 NA
Canada 0.042 0.039 0.047 0.049 0.055 0.059 NA NA NA
Chile NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.096 0.145 NA
China NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) 0.056 0.053 0.053 0.055 0.057 0.058 0.059 0.067 NA
Colombia NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.103 0.125 NA
Costa Rica NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.079 0.093 NA
Croatia NA NA NA NA 0.069 0.073 0.079 NA NA
Cuba NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Cyprus 0.079 0.082 0.104 0.107 0.125 0.145 NA NA NA
Czech Republic 0.043 0.049 0.056 0.066 0.081 0.094 0.115 0.151 NA
Denmark 0.060 0.070 0.092 0.096 NA NA NA NA NA
Dominican Republic NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.217 0.207 NA
Ecuador NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.065 0.070 NA
El Salvador NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.109 NA NA
Finland 0.038 0.043 0.065 0.072 0.070 NA 0.081 0.097 NA
France 0.035 0.037 0.045 0.050 0.050 0.051 0.056 0.060 NA
Germany 0.044 0.049 0.065 0.077 0.084 0.094 0.109 NA NA
Greece 0.043 0.046 0.056 0.063 0.067 NA NA NA NA
Grenada NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Guatemala NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Guyana NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Haiti NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.174 NA NA
Honduras NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Hungary 0.051 0.059 0.078 0.092 0.096 0.105 0.134 0.170 0.16
India NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Indonesia 0.035 0.048 0.062 0.063 0.059 0.068 0.068 0.064 NA
Ireland 0.060 0.075 0.094 0.096 0.099 0.122 0.149 0.186 NA
Israel 0.062 0.062 0.066 0.072 0.080 0.078 NA NA NA
Italy 0.107 0.113 0.147 0.161 0.174 0.210 0.237 0.290 NA
Jamaica NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Japan 0.127 0.115 0.122 0.127 0.123 0.117 0.116 NA NA
Kazakhstan 0.014 0.014 0.015 0.018 0.020 0.024 0.033 0.039 NA
Korea, South 0.048 0.047 0.051 0.053 0.059 0.065 0.069 0.060 NA
Mexico 0.053 0.056 0.062 0.077 0.088 0.099 0.102 0.126 NA
Netherlands 0.059 C C C C C C C C
New Zealand 0.027 0.033 0.046 0.051 0.061 0.060 0.068 0.071 NA
Nicaragua NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.186 NA
Norway 0.025 0.031 0.046 0.043 0.043 0.055 0.048 0.064 NA
Panama NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.144 NA NA
Paraguay NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.041 0.048 NA
Peru NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.066 0.079 NA
Poland 0.045 0.049 0.056 0.060 0.070 0.073 0.082 0.119 NA
Portugal 0.066 0.068 0.083 0.093 0.098 0.110 0.124 0.131 NA
Romania 0.042 0.053 0.067 0.071 0.095 NA NA NA NA
Russia 0.021 0.024 0.029 0.030 0.032 0.036 0.038 0.050 NA
Singapore NA 0.067 0.070 0.074 0.080 0.096 0.112 0.141 NA
Slovak Republic (Slovakia) 0.043 0.047 0.070 0.083 0.086 0.098 0.137 0.174 NA
South Africa 0.013 0.012 0.019 0.022 0.022 0.022 NA NA NA
Spain 0.041 0.048 0.054 0.060 0.083 0.091 0.090 0.125 NA
Suriname NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Sweden NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Switzerland 0.068 0.070 0.079 0.084 0.081 0.080 0.084 0.094 NA
Thailand 0.056 0.057 0.060 0.063 0.066 0.078 0.073 0.075 NA
Trinidad and Tobago NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.023 NA NA
Turkey 0.079 0.094 0.099 0.100 0.106 0.100 0.109 0.139 NA
United Kingdom 0.051 0.052 0.055 0.067 0.087 0.117 0.130 0.146 NA
United States2 0.051 0.049 0.051 0.053 0.057 0.062 0.064 0.070 0.068
Uruguay NA NA NA NA NA NA 0.073 0.092 NA
Venezuela NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA

1Energy end-use prices including taxes, converted using exchange rates..
2Price 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, credits, or other adjustments, such as fuel or revenue from purchased power, from previous reporting periods.
NA = Not available
C = Confidential.

Source:
United States -- Energy Information Administration, Monthly Energy Review, May 2010, Table 9.9. Other Countries -- International Energy Agency, Energy Prices & Taxes - Quarterly Statistics, Fourth Quarter 2009, Part II, Section D, Table 21, and Part III, Section B, Table 18, 2008. 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.

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