Many electricity suppliers do not have a standard price for all customers, but base their tariffs on the time of electricity consumption (day, night, day of the week, season) and the amount of electricity consumed (consumption profile). To still enable a price comparison, Elcom works with 15 predefined consumption categories.
On the one hand, these consumption categories reflect different consumption quantities, and on the other hand, the tariffs are standardized: an average value is calculated per day, even if the network operator has different tariffs for day, night, Mon-Fri, Sat, Sun, winter and summer.
The electricity price consists of four components:
- Network usage tariff: Price for the transport of electricity via the power grid from the power plant to the house. The grid usage tariff now also includes the costs for the winter reserve.
- Energy rate: Price for the electrical energy supplied.
- Contributions to the community: Municipal and cantonal taxes and fees.
- Network surcharge: Federal levy to promote renewable energies, support large-scale hydropower and for ecological rehabilitation of hydropower. The amount of the levy is set annually by the Federal Council and in 2025, as in the previous year, will be the legal maximum of 2.3 cents/kWh.
(Source: Elcom)
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