What does energy cost now?

Every night we price every offer for five standard households. This is what the market is doing: no names, no advice, just the figures.

Cheapest offer

€2,692per year

+€289 since 7 Sept

Typical offer

€3,064per year

+€240 (8.5%) since 7 Sept

Cheapest to priciest

€1,064per year apart

what choosing is worth

Offers

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57 fixed · 19 variable · 24 dynamic · 19 hybrid · 39 with cashback

Updated 15 October 2026 at 08:41.

Yearly cost per day

Since 7 Sept: a typical offer +€240 per year (8.5%), the cheapest +€289.

Yearly cost for the “Electric car” household. Dynamic contracts on the exchange price of the past 30 days.

Fixed, variable or dynamic: which is cheapest now?

Today dynamic is cheapest at €2,692 a year. The table shows the change since 7 Sept.

Contract type	Today	Since 7 Sept
Dynamic estimate	€2,692	+€289
Fixed · 3 years	€2,707	+€167
Fixed · 2 years	€2,719	+€147
Fixed · 1 year	€2,752	+€187
Variable	€2,768	+€165
Hybrid estimate	€2,795	+€207

todayon 12-month averagelowest and highest year since 2019

The cheapest offer per contract type, unnamed. The same five contract types as on the usage map: fixed is split into 1 year and multi-year; dynamic and hybrid take every term, since a term on a dynamic contract changes nothing about the price you pay. Blue is fixed, orange variable, teal dynamic and hybrid. Below, each contract type on its own: the band up to the median, the priciest as a dotted line. On 12-month average: the same estimated offer on the average exchange price from 1 October 2025 to 30 September 2026. The range on dynamic and hybrid: the same offer on the lowest and the highest reference price since 1 September 2019 (3.3 to 24.6 ct per kWh, twelve-month averages up to 30 September 2026).

Each contract type on its own: the cheapest, the typical and the priciest offer

Fixed is a price you sign today for one to three years. Variable is today's tariff; the supplier adjusts it.

Dynamic and hybrid are an estimate, not a rate: the supplier's markup and fixed costs plus the exchange price of the past 30 days, weighted by a household's standard usage profile (MFFBAS E1A) and extended to a year. What you really pay depends on when you use energy and on the exchange price in the year ahead.

The market price dynamic and hybrid are estimated on

15.99 ctelectricity per kWh, without solar+53% vs the twelve-month average

17.72 ctelectricity per kWh, with solar+56% vs the twelve-month average

9.70 ctfeed-in per kWh+72% vs the twelve-month average

75.7 ctgas per m³+106% vs the twelve-month average

Day-ahead exchange price (EPEX) from 15 September 2026 to 14 October 2026, weighted by when a standard household uses and feeds back energy (MFFBAS profile E1A, gas G1A), excluding VAT. Refreshed nightly. The twelve-month average runs from 1 October 2025 to 30 September 2026. Electricity was pricier than in 82% of the months since 2019, gas pricier than in 82%.

Where does your money go?

Of the €2,692 of the cheapest offer, €1,198 goes to taxes and grid fees. Switching changes nothing there; the difference between suppliers is in the supply part.

Supply (differs per supplier)Feed-in feesTaxes and leviesGrid operatorFeed-in (income)Cashback and tax credit (deducted)

The cheapest offer per household on 15 October 2026. For the heat pump the tax credit exceeds the tax. With solar: 2,190 kWh fed in a year (standard profile), net-metered until 1 January 2027 and paid at the feed-in rate after. The calculation looks twelve months ahead, so this household's yearly cost rises through 2026 even without a price change.

When is energy expensive, and when do you use it?

In winter electricity is dearest around six in the evening, exactly when a household uses most. In summer it is almost free at midday, when hardly anyone is home.

When do you use energy?

Electricity: kWh per hour of the day, per month. “Electric car” household, standard profile E1A 2026 (MFFBAS).

When is energy expensive?

Electricity: average exchange price per hour, per month, 1 October 2025 to 30 September 2026, excluding VAT and markup.

A dynamic contract charges the price of the hour itself. Whoever can move usage into the cheap hours pays less on a dynamic contract than our estimate; whoever cannot pays about what we show.

What is not here

Which supplier it is, the full ranking, the tariffs, and a calculation for your own usage and postcode. The five cheapest per day are named in the open data. Open data · How we rank · Cheapest contract today

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