National Statistical Institute

Environmental and Energy Accounts Department

Ivanka Tzvetkova - electricity prices

Iveta Minkova - natural gas prices

State Expert

Chief expert

2 P.Volov street, 1038 Sofia, Bulgaria

[email protected]

[email protected]

+359 2 9857 590

+359 2 9857 191

This topic presents average prices of supplied electricity/natural gas to household and final non-household customers. Prices are representative for the country - data are provided by all suppliers of electricity/natural gas to household and final non-household customers for the quantities delivered through transmission/distribution network. The prices are calculated as a weighted average price by the actual supplied quantity of electricity/natural gas and their invoiced value of all end-customers.

Prices include electricity/gas basic price, transmission, distribution, excise, VAT and others.

Prices are collected and published considering three levels of taxation:

• prices excluding taxes and levies;
• prices excluding VAT and other recoverable taxes;
• prices including all taxes, levies and VAT.

Questionnaires that cover the following areas, according to Regulation (EU) 2016/1952 of the European Parliament and of the Council on natural gas and electricity prices and repealing Directive 2008/92/EC, are provided to all data providers:

• Gas prices for household customers;
• Gas prices for final non-household customers;
• Electricity prices for household customers;
• Electricity prices for final non-household customers.

Gas and electricity prices are collected for the 2 following areas:

• Household customers;
• Final non-household customers.

Reference customers of natural gas and electricity are characterised by the following  standard annual consumption bands:

Natural gas household customers:

D1 (Small): annual consumption below 20 GJ

D2 (Medium): annual consumption between 20 and 200 GJ

D3 (Large): annual consumption above 200 GJ

Natural gas  final non-household customers:

I1: annual consumption below 1 000 GJ

I2: annual consumption between 1 000 and 10 000 GJ

I3: annual consumption between 10 000 and 100 000 GJ

I4: annual consumption between 100 000 and 1 000 000 GJ

I5: annual consumption between 1 000 000 and 4 000 000 GJ

I6: annual consumption above 4 000 000 GJ

Electricity household customers:

Da (Very small): annual consumption below 1 000 kWh

Db (Small): annual consumption between 1 000 and 2 500 kWh

Dc (Medium): annual consumption between 2 500 and 5 000 kWh

Dd (Large): annual consumption between 5 000 and 15 000 kWh

De (Very large): annual consumption above 15000 kWh

Electricity  final non-household customers:

Ia: annual consumption below 20 MWh

Ib: annual consumption between 20 and 500 MWh

Ic: annual consumption between 500 and 2 000 MWh

Id: annual consumption between 2 000 and 20 000 MWh

Ie: annual consumption between 20 000 and 70 000 MWh

If: annual consumption between 70 000 and 150 000 MWh

Ig: annual consumption above 150 000 MWh

Final household and non-household customers.

All final non-household (until the first semester of 2017 only end-users in the industry were observed) and household customers, meeting the criteria in Regulation (EU) 2016/1952. For natural gas: the companies using natural gas for electricity generation and non-energy use are excluded.

Prices are presented at national level. They refer to household and non-household customers doing business in Bulgaria.

From the second semester of 2007 onwards.

Not applicable.

Electricity prices:

BGN/kWh

Natural gas prices:

BGN/GJ (Giga Joule = one Joule x 10⁹)

Prices over a period of six months.

Prices for first semester are average prices between January and June of each year, for second semester the prices are average prices between July and December of each year.

• Law on Statistics;
• Regulation (EU) 2016/1952 of the European Parliament and of the Council on natural gas and electricity prices and repealing Directive 2008/92/EC

Not applicable.

• Law on Statistics;
• Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics (recital 24 and Article 20(4)) of 11 March 2009 (OJ L 87, p. 164), stipulates the need to establish common principles and guidelines ensuring the confidentiality of data used for the production of European statistics and the access to those confidential data with due account for technical developments and the requirements of users in a democratic society.

Individual data on prices are not published (they are suppressed), following Art. 25 of the Law on Statistics. Publishing of individual data is made under Art. 26 of the Law on Statistics.

The date for publication of statistical information on prices is listed in the Release Calendar presenting the results of the statistical surveys carried out by the National Statistical Institute. Data on prices of natural gas and electricity delivered for household and final non-household customers is published twice per year: three months after the reporting period.

Calendar is available on the NSI website: http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/480

Gas and electricity prices for household and non-household customers are published on the NSI website, section Energy in accordance with the Law on Statistics and the European Statistics Code of Practice respecting the professional independence and aimed at objectivity, transparency and equal treatment of all consumers.

Half-yearly.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

The survey results are available to all users on the NSI website under the heading Domain statistics Environment and Energy - Energy - Electricity and natural gas prices.

At national level - average price of natural gas and electricity, supplied through the network to defined groups for household and final non-household customers, according to Regulation (EU) 2016/1952.

At national level - average price of natural gas and electricity, supplied through the network to defined groups industrial end-users and households, according to Directive 2008/92/EC.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Regulation (EU) 2016/1952, Annex 1 and Annex 2.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Dataset provides prices information, comparable between countries, as prices are calculated on the base of methodology for electricity/natural gas data collection (Regulation (EU) 2016/1952, Annex 1 and 2).

No information available for users of these data, as they have free access to the website of NSI.

No user satisfaction survey has been carried out for this dataset.

Data fully meet the requirements of Regulation (EU) 2016/1952 - in terms of scope, structure of consumers and price levels.

Data are reliable, the accuracy is good. Data are verified for each supplier. The comparative analysis of the data providers is made with data from previous periods and with the established prices caps for natural gas and electricity.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Data from respondents are received one month after the reporting semester. Analysis, verification and preparation of country representative aggregate average prices are carried out by the end of the third month following the reporting period.

Data are published accurately at the date according to the Release Calendar (three months after the reporting period: for the first semester - at the end of September of the current year and for the second semester – at the end of March of the next year).

Data are representative at national level, as required by the methodology of calculation of prices for standard groups of household and final non-household customers (Regulation (EU) 2016/1952, Annex 1 and 2).

Data in time series are calculated by same methodology and are comparable, since the first semester of 2017 prices cover not only industrial end-users, but all final non-household customers. No break in the series, first period in which is the second semester of 2007.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

In case of incorrect data - omissions or inaccuracies in data provided by respondents.

Data correction.

Data are provided by all suppliers of natural gas and electricity to household and final non-household customers through a survey "Electricity and natural gas prices to household and final non-household customers", included in the National Statistical Programme.

Half yearly.

Exhaustive survey on average gas and electricity prices from all suppliers to final customers with electronic statistical form. Reports are received by email.

A comparative analysis of the reported data is made with the data of previous periods and with the established tariffs for price caps of natural gas and tariffs for the electricity.

Three levels of average prices in the country are estimated by standard group of users. Appropriate quantities of natural gas and electricity, delivered by each supplier are used as weights.

Not applicable.