Denmark Electricity Tariff API

How a household electricity price is built in Denmark

Denmark has been open since 2003, and the supplier a household chooses bills everything — network charges and state levies included — even though separate parties set them. Around three dozen local grid companies are pure network operators that never sell energy. The country trades in two wholesale price zones, west and east. Its standout feature is that the local network charge is not flat: it follows a seasonal time-of-day schedule in which the winter evening peak costs several times the overnight rate from the very same operator.

What a household bill is made of

1. 1

   Energy

   Day-ahead prices cleared per bidding zone — one for Jutland and Funen, one for Zealand — now settled in quarter-hourly blocks. Static products charge a fixed energy rate plus a monthly supplier subscription; dynamic products pass the zonal price through with a fixed markup. "Fixed" in Denmark means the energy rate is fixed; the network layer underneath still varies by hour and season.

2. 2

   Network charges

   The local distribution tariff is the largest location-varying component and the one that moves most by hour. Under the current tariff model a household tariff switches between a night, day and evening-peak schedule twice a year, with a wide winter spread that flattens considerably in summer. On top sit a flat monthly connection subscription and the transmission operator’s own transmission and system tariffs plus a small monthly system subscription.

3. 3

   Taxes and levies

   A single electricity excise, currently on a temporary reduction to the EU minimum — a large change from its normal level, which is scheduled to return. The old public-service obligation levy has been fully phased out and is zero, so historical comparisons must not carry it forward. There is no concession fee and no separate renewable levy on a Danish bill.

4. 4

   VAT

   25% on the net bill, a single rate for every customer class, with no reduced band and no household/business split.

Regulation shaping the price

• Forsyningstilsynet caps each network company’s revenue and must accept the methodology behind its tariff shape; operators file their own tariffs and time bands within that.
• Denmark publishes essentially every price component as open data through the transmission operator’s data hub, including per-operator tariff schedules with validity dates.
• Smart meters have been mandatory since 2020, which is what makes hourly settlement a mainstream household product rather than a niche one.
• There is no feed-in tariff and no annual net metering for new installations: household solar is settled instantaneously against the spot price. A standing availability charge for prosumers was abolished in 2026 and replaced by a capacity-graduated charge that only bites above a threshold well beyond household scale.