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Contact organisation | National Statistical Institute |
Contact organisation unit | Environmental and Energy Accounts Department |
Contact name | Ivanka Tzvetkova - electricity prices Iveta Minkova - natural gas prices |
Contact person function | State Expert Chief expert |
Contact mail address | 2 P.Volov street, 1038 Sofia, Bulgaria |
Contact email address | |
Contact phone number | +359 2 9857 590 +359 2 9857 191 |
Contact fax number | |
Metadata update | |
Metadata last certified | 29 September 2017 |
Metadata last posted | 29 September 2017 |
Metadata last update | 29 September 2017 |
Statistical presentation | |
Data description | 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:
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Classification system | 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:
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Sector coverage | Gas and electricity prices are collected for the 2 following areas:
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Statistical concepts and definitions | 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 |
Statistical unit | Final household and non-household customers. |
Statistical population | 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. |
Reference area | Prices are presented at national level. They refer to household and non-household customers doing business in Bulgaria. |
Time coverage | From the second semester of 2007 onwards. |
Base period | Not applicable. |
Unit of measure | |
Electricity prices: BGN/kWh Natural gas prices: BGN/GJ (Giga Joule = one Joule x 109) | |
Reference period | |
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. | |
Institutional mandate | |
Legal acts and other agreements |
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Data sharing | Not applicable. |
Confidentiality | |
Confidentiality - policy |
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Confidentiality - data treatment | 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. |
Release policy | |
Release calendar | 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. |
Release calendar access | Calendar is available on the NSI website: http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/480 |
User access | 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. |
Frequency of dissemination | |
Half-yearly. | |
Accessibility and clarity | |
News release | Not applicable. |
Publications | Not applicable. |
On-line database | 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. |
Micro-data access | Not applicable. |
Other | Not applicable. |
Documentation on methodology | Regulation (EU) 2016/1952, Annex 1 and Annex 2. |
Quality documentation | Not applicable. |
Quality management | |
Quality assurance | Not applicable. |
Quality assessment | 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). |
Relevance | |
User needs | No information available for users of these data, as they have free access to the website of NSI. |
User satisfaction | No user satisfaction survey has been carried out for this dataset. |
Completeness | Data fully meet the requirements of Regulation (EU) 2016/1952 - in terms of scope, structure of consumers and price levels. |
Accuracy and reliability | |
Overall accuracy | 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. |
Sampling error | Not applicable. |
Non-sampling error | Not applicable. |
Timeliness and punctuality | |
Timeliness | 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. |
Punctuality | 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). |
Coherence and comparability | |
Comparability - geographical | 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). |
Comparability - over time | 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. |
Coherence - cross domain | Not applicable. |
Coherence - internal | Not applicable. |
Cost and burden | |
Not applicable. | |
Data revision | |
Data revision - policy | In case of incorrect data - omissions or inaccuracies in data provided by respondents. |
Data revision - practice | Data correction. |
Statistical processing | |
Source data | 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. |
Frequency of data collection | Half yearly. |
Data collection | Exhaustive survey on average gas and electricity prices from all suppliers to final customers with electronic statistical form. Reports are received by email. |
Data validation | 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. |
Data compilation | 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. |
Adjustment | Not applicable. |
Comment |
Electricity and natural gas prices
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