The price paid by the population for electricity has increased by 50% since 2009; more than half of the increase took place in 2013 when one MWh was 132.3 euros. In 2020, the price paid by the population for an MWh had reached almost 146 euros, according to European Union data. In the EU-27, on average, electricity prices have risen by 27.78% in the last 11 years.
In the last decade, Romania registered the third-fastest pace of price increase for household electricity – 49.49%. Bigger increases were recorded only in France (56.97%) and Lithuania (49.95%). Comparable evolutions also took place in Belgium (45.72%), Greece (45.06%) and Spain (41.98%).