{"id":519096,"date":"2026-06-04T23:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T23:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/519096\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T23:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T23:42:12","slug":"dubliners-pay-eus-biggest-electricity-bills-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/519096\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubliners pay EU\u2019s biggest electricity bills \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dubliners<\/a> pay more for electricity<\/a> than the residents of all other European Union<\/a> capitals, according to a European report showing families in the Irish city pay \u20ac1,600 a year for power.<\/p>\n

Irish energy suppliers increased prices by \u20ac8 to \u20ac11 per month for electricity in recent weeks as global oil<\/a> and gas prices soared following the US-Israeli attacks<\/a> on Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n

New figures from a Europe-wide report show Dublin is the most expensive capital in the EU for domestic electricity prices, with higher charges than those in leading cities such as Paris or Rome.<\/p>\n

Dublin families pay an average of 38.52 cent a kilowatt hour (KW\/h, the unit in which power is sold) for their electricity, according to May\u2019s Household Energy Price for Europe index.<\/p>\n

That translates into bills of close to \u20ac1,600 a year or almost \u20ac270 per bill, which are issued every two months by most suppliers, based on industry calculations of average Irish household electricity use.<\/p>\n

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The index includes the standing charges paid to support the national grid and distribution networks that deliver electricity to homes.<\/p>\n

It would not include increases announced last week by suppliers ESB<\/a> subsidiary Electric Ireland<\/a> and Yuno Energy<\/a>, which will apply to customers\u2019 bills from July. <\/p>\n

In Europe as a whole, Dublin trails only Swiss capital Bern \u2013 which is outside the EU \u2013 where homes pay 39.19 cent a KW\/h.<\/p>\n

It is more expensive than Brussels, the EU\u2019s administrative hub, where citizens pay 35.44 cent a KW\/h.<\/p>\n

Dublin\u2019s electricity is also more expensive than Paris, where energy costs 25.44 cent a KW\/h, or Rome, where residents pay 31.02 cent.<\/p>\n

The EU average for domestic electricity is 25.35 cent a KW\/h, according to the monthly index, published by energy regulators in Austria and Hungary.<\/p>\n

Commenting on the figures, Lynn Boylan<\/a>, Sinn F\u00e9in<\/a> MEP, blamed the Government\u2019s continued support for data centres<\/a>, for the fact that many Dubliners struggled with their electricity bills.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis Government continues to roll out the red carpet with policy announcement after policy announcement for data centres, while struggling households are told to wait,\u201d Boylan argued.<\/p>\n

Data centres consume about a fifth of Irish electricity, a figure that could reach 30 per cent by the next decade.<\/p>\n

Alan Dillon<\/a>, Minister of State, recently told the D\u00e1il that householders do not subsidise data centres.<\/p>\n

He added that large industrial users of electricity pay a higher share of network costs.<\/p>\n

Daragh Cassidy<\/a> of price comparison and switching website Bonkers.ie<\/a> said the report confirmed recent figures from EU body Eurostat<\/a> showing that the Republic had the bloc\u2019s highest electricity prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dubliners pay more for electricity than the residents of all other European Union capitals, according to a European…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[73],"tags":[111050,77622,79,2190,77621,444,52,18,40296,35808,52737,2219,5857,19,17,90929,47,48022],"class_list":["post-519096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-alan-dillon","tag-bonkers-ie","tag-business","tag-cost-of-living","tag-daragh-cassidy","tag-data-centres","tag-dublin","tag-eire","tag-electric-ireland","tag-energy-costs","tag-esb","tag-european-union","tag-eurostat","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lynn-boylan","tag-sinn-fein","tag-yuno-energy"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116694492514202928","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}