What do households in Switzerland pay for electricity?
Household and business energy prices in Switzerland, from ElCom. This source is answered live, so the page shows how to ask, not a number.
Posted prices, as published by the official source. They are not individual receipts.
ProofPrice reads ElCom when you ask, so the answer is always the latest published. It comes with its period, its source and its licence; a range built from records is given only when at least 5 records sit behind it.
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Where this comes from
- Source
- Strompreise / Electricity tariffs (ElCom, via LINDAS), published by ElCom (Eidgenössische Elektrizitätskommission), data published on opendata.swiss and LINDAS
- Licence
- opendata.swiss terms of use: Open use (commercial use allowed, citing the source recommended)
- Attribution
- Source: ElCom, Electricity tariff per provider (opendata.swiss / LINDAS), Open use. Converted from Rappen to CHF per kWh by ProofPrice.
- How fresh the source is
- Yearly: ElCom publishes next year's tariffs in autumn; each answer states the tariff year
- Limits
- Published tariffs per consumption profile, not what any household paid on a bill. The open-data record does not say whether VAT is included, so we do not claim either. Only the national and the canton level are offered here (not single municipalities or suppliers). Electricity only (no gas).
- Rule
- A figure built from records is shown only when at least 5 records sit behind it; official statistics are shown as such, with their reference period. See how we earn trust and the method.
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More
- Electricity for households, canton zh
- All pages: household and business energy prices in Switzerland
- This source and its licence
Information, not a valuation or offer. Ranges describe past recorded prices.