Dublin Has EU's Highest Electricity Prices at €1,600 Annually
Dublin has the highest electricity prices among EU capitals, with families paying €1,600 annually, or 38.52 cent per KW/h. Recent price hikes by Irish suppliers follow global energy cost increases. Sinn Féin MEP Lynn Boylan blames government support for data centres for the high prices.
Dublin families pay the highest electricity prices among all EU capitals, averaging €1,600 annually, according to May’s Household Energy Price for Europe index. Residents pay 38.52 cent per kilowatt-hour (KW/h), exceeding cities like Paris (25.44 cent) and Rome (31.02 cent), and significantly above the EU average of 25.35 cent a KW/h.
Irish energy suppliers recently increased prices by €8 to €11 per month due to soaring global oil and gas prices following US-Israeli attacks on Iran. This report confirms earlier Eurostat figures indicating Ireland has the highest electricity prices in the EU.
Sinn Féin MEP Lynn Boylan attributed high costs to the Government’s support for data centres, which consume about a fifth of Irish electricity and could reach 30% by the next decade. However, Minister of State Alan Dillon stated that householders do not subsidize data centres, noting large industrial users pay a higher share of network costs.