{
  "query": {
    "country": "DE",
    "energy": "gas",
    "consumption_band": "GJ20-199",
    "taxes": "all"
  },
  "status": "ok",
  "price": {
    "currency": "EUR",
    "unit": "per kWh",
    "value": 0.1156,
    "measure": "average",
    "median": null,
    "typical_low": null,
    "typical_high": null,
    "min": null,
    "max": null
  },
  "sample_size": null,
  "period": {
    "from": "2026-01-01",
    "to": "2026-06-30"
  },
  "confidence": "high",
  "price_type": "official_statistic",
  "statistic": {
    "measure": "average",
    "reference_period": "2026-S1"
  },
  "as_of": "2026-10-14T21:15:10.899Z",
  "source": {
    "id": "eu-energy",
    "name": "Electricity and gas prices for household consumers, bi-annual data (nrg_pc_204, nrg_pc_202)",
    "publisher": "Eurostat (European Commission)",
    "licence": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0); Eurostat authorises reuse for commercial and non-commercial purposes provided the source is acknowledged",
    "licence_url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/help/copyright-notice",
    "attribution": "Source: Eurostat, datasets nrg_pc_204 (electricity prices for household consumers, bi-annual data, https://doi.org/10.2908/NRG_PC_204) and nrg_pc_202 (gas prices for household consumers, bi-annual data, https://doi.org/10.2908/NRG_PC_202). Reused under the Eurostat copyright notice (CC BY 4.0). Prices are passed on as published; the percentage change between half-years is calculated by ProofPrice.",
    "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/nrg_pc_204/default/table?lang=en"
  },
  "method": "Eurostat publishes, twice a year, the average price per kWh charged to household consumers in each country (dataset nrg_pc_202), by consumption band and tax level, as reported by national authorities. ProofPrice returns the published figure for the latest half-year Eurostat holds for the country, unchanged, with the same band at the other tax levels, every band, the national-currency figure and the previous half-year. No range is calculated: Eurostat gives one average and does not say how many households or bills are behind it.",
  "method_url": "https://proofprice.com/method",
  "summary": "In Germany the average household price of natural gas was €0.1156 per kWh in the first half of 2026 (all taxes and levies included; annual consumption band D2, 20 to 199 GJ a year (about 5,600 to 55,000 kWh)). That is 5.5% lower than in the second half of 2025. Official average published by Eurostat (European Commission) for 2026-S1.",
  "notice": "Information, not a valuation or offer. Ranges describe past recorded prices.",
  "extra": {
    "energy": "gas",
    "country_name": "Germany",
    "consumption_band": {
      "code": "GJ20-199",
      "band": "D2",
      "label": "Consumption from 20 GJ to 199 GJ - band D2",
      "annual_consumption": "20 to 199 GJ a year (about 5,600 to 55,000 kWh)"
    },
    "taxes": {
      "level": "all",
      "code": "I_TAX",
      "label": "All taxes and levies included"
    },
    "reference_period_label": "the first half of 2026",
    "price_by_tax_level_eur_per_kwh": {
      "all_taxes_included": 0.1156,
      "excluding_vat": 0.0971,
      "excluding_all_taxes": 0.0794
    },
    "previous_period": {
      "reference_period": "2025-S2",
      "value": 0.1223,
      "change_percent": -5.5
    },
    "all_bands_eur_per_kwh": [
      {
        "band": "D1",
        "code": "GJ_LT20",
        "label": "Consumption less than 20 GJ - band D1",
        "value": 0.1517
      },
      {
        "band": "D2",
        "code": "GJ20-199",
        "label": "Consumption from 20 GJ to 199 GJ - band D2",
        "value": 0.1156
      },
      {
        "band": "D3",
        "code": "GJ_GE200",
        "label": "Consumption 200 GJ or over - band D3",
        "value": 0.1092
      }
    ],
    "dataset": {
      "code": "nrg_pc_202",
      "title": "Gas prices for household consumers - bi-annual data",
      "updated": "2026-10-13T23:00:00+0200",
      "doi": "https://doi.org/10.2908/NRG_PC_202",
      "latest_period_in_dataset": "2026-S1"
    },
    "eurostat_api_url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/nrg_pc_202?format=JSON&lang=EN&geo=DE&unit=KWH&currency=EUR&currency=NAC&tax=I_TAX&tax=X_VAT&tax=X_TAX&lastTimePeriod=4"
  },
  "answer_id": "ans_9661421e9c7495b78732",
  "method_version": "1",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-10-14T21:15:10.899Z",
  "evidence": {
    "type": "official_statistic",
    "label": "Official published average",
    "meaning": "One average or median that a statistics office or regulator publishes for a reference period: it describes a group, not a distribution, and says nothing about any single price."
  }
}