Finland Electricity Tariff API

How a household electricity price is built in Finland

Finland has been fully open and unbundled since the late 1990s: a household buys energy from any supplier nationally, while a separate, area-exclusive distribution company bills a distinct transfer charge on its own invoice. The mainland is a single price area, so there is no regional wholesale variation there — only variation by network operator for delivery; the autonomous Åland Islands are the exception, pricing in Sweden’s SE3 zone. Finland stands out for how mainstream spot-price exposure has become, with roughly a third of household contracts priced directly off the exchange.

What a household bill is made of

1. 1

   Energy

   Traded day-ahead in one bidding zone covering the whole mainland, now in quarter-hourly market time units. Åland is not in it: the islands belong to the Swedish SE3 zone, and their exchange-priced products follow the SE3 price. Fixed-term products (typically 6, 12 or 24 months) and open-ended products changeable on a month’s notice cover the static side; exchange-priced products pass the market price through per interval with a small margin and a monthly fee. A growing hybrid class mixes a fixed component with a term that depends on the customer’s own hourly profile against the market curve — those cannot be priced without a consumption profile.

2. 2

   Network charges (siirto)

   Set per distribution company under revenue-cap regulation and not contestable — the operator follows the address. The mass-market product is a flat general transfer tariff: a per-kWh energy charge plus a monthly basic fee banded by main-fuse size. Day/night, seasonal and power-based variants exist, and a customer may change metering product once a year free of charge. A harmonisation regulation is standardising these components nationally by 2029, including an optional power charge above a threshold, while preserving households’ right to a product without one.

3. 3

   Taxes and levies

   One statutory electricity tax, billed on the network invoice, published as an energy-content component plus a small strategic-stockpile fee. Households, services, farms and the public sector all pay the higher of the two tax classes; the reduced class is for industry, data centres and professional greenhouse growing. There is no renewable levy, no concession fee and no capacity charge on a Finnish household bill — production support comes from the state budget.

4. 4

   VAT

   25.5%, applied to every component of both invoices — the energy charge and its monthly fee, the transfer charge and its monthly fee, and the electricity tax itself.

Regulation shaping the price

• Energiavirasto caps distribution revenue, sets the harmonisation rules for tariff structure, and runs a free official price-comparison service that every supplier must file its generally offered products into.
• Suppliers may not issue price-change notices for products tied to a public reference price, which is why exchange-linked products are contractually simpler than variable fixed-price ones.
• There is no feed-in tariff. Microgeneration is first netted against consumption nationwide through the metering data hub, now per 15-minute period, and only the remaining surplus is sold — normally at the area spot price minus the buyer’s margin.
• Microgeneration up to 100 kVA is exempt from electricity-tax obligations, so no levy attaches to the feed-in side.
• Åland is regulated separately: the Finnish market act applies there through the autonomous region’s own legislation, its own regulator supervises network licences and network charges, and its own transmission operator is responsible for the system. Two distribution companies serve the islands; supply there is open, and a supplier is not tied to either network area.

What the bill splits into

• Energy36%
• Network charges33%
• Electricity tax and VAT31%

Energiavirasto’s own decomposition for a 5,000 kWh/year household, including VAT.

Market structure last reviewed September 2026.