Electricity and natural gas prices

National Statisitcal Institute

Environmental and Energy Accounts Department

2 P.Volov street, 1038 Sofia, Bulgaria

• Component Energy and supply,
• Component  Network,
• Component Taxes, fees, levies and charges.

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

Internal Eurostat classification system 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, based on annual natural gas/electricity consumption bands and on tax levels.

• Household customers,
• Final non-household customers.

• Energy and supply:

• Network - includes transmission and distribution tariffs, transmission and distribution losses, network costs, after-sale service costs, system service costs and meter rental and metering costs. In addition this component is split into average relative share of transmission costs for household /non-household customers and average relative share of distribution costs for household/non-household customers.
• Taxes, fees, levies and charges - includes the following sub-components:

1. Value added tax as defined in Council Directive 2006/112/EC
2. Taxes, fees, levies or charges relating to the promotion of renewable energy sources, energy efficiency and CHP generation.
3. Taxes, fees, levies or charges relating to strategic stockpiles, capacity payments, energy security and generation adequacy; taxes on coal industry restructuring; taxes on natural gas/electricity distribution; stranded costs and levies on financing energy regulatory authorities or market and system operators.
4. Taxes, fees, levies or charges relating to air quality and for other environmental purposes; taxes on emissions of CO 2 or other greenhouse gases. This sub-component includes the excise duties.
5. Taxes, fees, levies or charges relating to the nuclear sector, including nuclear decommissioning, inspections and fees for nuclear installations.
6. All other taxes, fees, levies or charges not covered by any of the previous five categories: support for district heating; local or regional fiscal charges; island compensation; concession fees relating to licences and fees for the occupation of land and public or private property by networks or other devices.

Final household and non-household customers divided into annual consumption bands.

The national territory of the Republic of  Bulgaria.

From the second semester of 2007 onwards.

Not applicable.

• 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;
• Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2169 of 21 November 2017 concerning the format and arrangements for the transmission of European Statistics on natural gas and electricity prices;
• Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/803 of 17 May 2019 concerning the content of quality reports on European statistics on natural gas and electricity prices 

Data is provided to Eurostat.

• 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.

Published data do not allow identification of single consumers. 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: https://old.nsi.bg/en/node/480

Gas and electricity average prices for household and non-household customers are published on the NSI website, section Energy and in IS INFOSTAT 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.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Information service upon request according to the Rules for dissemination of statistical products and services.

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

Quality report according to Regulation (EC) No 2016/1952

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

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 decisions and the tariffs for approved prices respectively of natural gas and electricity, published by EWRC - Energy and Water Regulatory Commission.

No sampling used as the data covers 100% of the population.

The information is included in the following 9 indicators.

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 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, as prices from the first semester of 2017 cover not only industrial end-users, but all final non-household customers. 

Not applicable.

Annual prices are coherent with the semestrial prices.

Data revisions are carried out when incorrect data are found - omissions or inaccuracies in the data provided by the respondents.

No planned revisions of data. Unplanned revisions are made in case of detecting different types of errors - tehnical errors, discrepancies with previous periods.

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

Biannual for the periods  January - June and July - December.

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  end-customers. Appropriate quantities of natural gas and electricity, delivered by each supplier are used as weights.

Not applicable.