Trends
Trends in electricity, charging and ERE
How prices and supply move, month by month. Every series with a source, updated automatically. And since September 27, 2026 we record every check of our own data.
Sources: Energy-Charts / SMARD, ACM, RVO, Belastingdienst and named ERE price sources.
This month
€0.171/kWh
Average market price October 2026, to October 22, 2026. September 2026: €0.152.
- Smart (4 cheapest hours)
- €0.107
- Evening (6 to 10 pm)
- €0.229
Excl. VAT and energy tax. Energy-Charts (Fraunhofer ISE), data Bundesnetzagentur | SMARD.de.
Electricity price today and tomorrow- €0.152/kWhelectricity price September 2026, market price excl. VAT and tax+96% year on year
- 396hoursof negative power prices in 2026 (to October 22, 2026)581 in all of 2025
- €0.12/kWhcheaper: smart charging in the 4 cheapest hours vs the evening (12 months, incl. VAT)
- 52electricity suppliers with an ACM license (highest since 2019: 62)
Electricity price
The Dutch electricity price per month, since 2019
The price on the Dutch day-ahead market, which dynamic contracts follow every hour (every quarter hour since October 2025). It peaked in August 2022 at €0.447 per kWh. Since 2023, April 2024 was the cheapest month at €0.058.
Average market price per kWh
Per month, excl. VAT and energy tax
Average per year
| Year | Average per kWh |
|---|---|
| 2019 | €0.041 |
| 2020 | €0.032 |
| 2021 | €0.103 |
| 2022 | €0.242 |
| 2023 | €0.096 |
| 2024 | €0.077 |
| 2025 | €0.087 |
| 2026 (to October 22, 2026) | €0.113 |
Time-weighted average of all hours (quarter hours from October 2025). Updated October 21, 2026. Source: Energy-Charts (Fraunhofer ISE), data Bundesnetzagentur | SMARD.de (CC BY 4.0)
Smart charging
When you charge matters more than ever
Over the last 12 months power in the four cheapest hours of the day cost an average of €0.043 per kWh on the market, and €0.146 between 6 and 10 pm. With VAT that is a difference of €0.12 per kWh: for an electric car charging 2,700 kWh a year at home about €337 a year, with a dynamic contract and a charger or car that picks the cheap hours itself.
Three ways of charging
Market price per kWh, last 24 months
Evening, 12 months
€0.146
Smart, 12 months
€0.043
Difference for 2,700 kWh a year, incl. VAT
€337
“Smart” is the average of the four cheapest hours of each day (not necessarily consecutive), then averaged over the month. Excl. VAT and energy tax. What a kWh cost with a particular supplier is on the page of every supplier with a dynamic contract. Source: Energy-Charts (Fraunhofer ISE), data Bundesnetzagentur | SMARD.de
Negative prices
How often power cost less than nothing
In 2026 the power price has been negative for 396 hours so far, against 581 hours in all of 2025. It mostly happens on sunny afternoons, when there is more solar power than the grid can absorb. With a dynamic contract you are paid on the market price in those hours; after net metering ends in 2027, charging your car in those hours matters even more.
Hours with a negative price, per month
Hours negative per year
| 2026* | 396 |
| 2025 | 581.25 |
| 2024 | 458 |
| 2023 | 316 |
| 2022 | 85 |
| 2021 | 70 |
| 2020 | 97 |
| 2019 | 3 |
* to October 22, 2026
Hours (or quarter hours, added up) with a day-ahead price below zero, local time. Source: Energy-Charts (Fraunhofer ISE), data Bundesnetzagentur | SMARD.de
Suppliers
How many companies may supply electricity
Supplying electricity to households requires an ACM license. The number of license holders peaked at 62 in September 2021; since 2021, 20 have been revoked, many during the energy crisis. There are 52 now. There are more brands, because many supply under another company’s license.
Active electricity supply licenses
On the first day of each month since January 2019
Computed from the grants and revocations in the ACM register of October 19, 2026. No grant date, counted from the first date that is there: Audax Renewables Nederland B.V. Revoked without a date, not counted: DGB Energie B.V. Source: ACM, licensed energy suppliers
Charge points
Public charge points in the Netherlands
On July 31, 2026 RVO counted 227,773 publicly accessible charge points: 138,311 public, 82,252 semi-public (for example at shops and in car parks) and 7,210 fast chargers from 50 kW. A year earlier there were 204,520.
Public and semi-public
+11% in a year
Charge points (one car at a time), not posts. Breaks in the series from improved counting, including 2019, 2020, 2023 (fast chargers only from 50 kW) and January 2025 (new data source; the public and semi-public split is not comparable before and after). Source: RVO, Dashboard Laadinfrastructuur (Nationale Agenda Laadinfrastructuur)
Fast charge points
7,210 from 50 kW
ERE price
What an ERE fetched, by source
Only prices from named sources, each on the date the source itself states.
What we track
Every check on record
Since September 27, 2026 we record 1,060 values at every check: the prices and terms of every ERE provider, energy supplier and charging card, the tariffs of charging networks and municipalities, and our scores. Corrections of our own mistakes do not count as changes. 10 checks recorded, latest on October 21, 2026.
The market in our comparison
- Median ERE commission
- 20%
- Median dynamic markup per kWh
- €0.02 per kWh
- Median fixed supply costs per month
- €7.37 per month
- Median supplier cost per year (example)
- €187 per year
- Median charging card extra cost per month (example)
- €3.26 per month
- Median ad hoc AC price, public charging
- €0.57 per kWh
- changed 1×
- Median ad hoc DC price, fast charging
- €0.805 per kWh
- changed 1×
- ERE providers compared
- 41
- changed 2×
- ERE providers taking customers
- 36
- changed 2×
- Median trust score
- 6.7/10
- changed 1×
- Active electricity supply licenses (ACM)
- 52
- Energy suppliers (brands)
- 91
- Suppliers with a dynamic contract
- 59
- Suppliers with smart charging
- 23
- Charging cards compared
- 46
Medians and counts across every provider in our comparison; they also move when providers are added or dropped. Measured since September 27, 2026.
Latest changes
Amsterdam: TotalEnergies · Price per kWh: €0.41 per kWh → €0.44 per kWh
Friesland (provincie): TotalEnergies · Price per kWh: €0.40 per kWh → €0.41 per kWh
Groen-laden.nl · Fixed fee per year: €79.99 per year → not public
TotalEnergies (openbaar netwerk) · Ad hoc AC per kWh: €0.48 per kWh → €0.50 per kWh
TotalEnergies (openbaar netwerk) · Ad hoc DC per kWh: €0.80 per kWh → €0.86 per kWh
Utrecht: Openbare snelladers (DC) · Price per kWh: €0.80 per kWh → €0.86 per kWh
Utrecht: TotalEnergies · Price per kWh: €0.42 per kWh → €0.46 per kWh
Lekkerladen · Commission: 25% → 22%
Amsterdam: Velian (voorheen Equans) · Price per kWh: €0.33 per kWh → €0.39 per kWh
Den Haag: Vattenfall InCharge (AC) · Price per kWh: €0.41 per kWh → €0.46 per kWh
Groningen en Drenthe: Velian (voorheen Equans) · Price per kWh: €0.44 per kWh → €0.50 per kWh
Noord-Brabant en Limburg: Vattenfall InCharge · Price per kWh: €0.4598 per kWh → €0.4903 per kWh
Download the data
The electricity price per month, the number of supply licenses per month and our full data history. Free to use with attribution (CC BY 4.0); for the electricity price also credit Energy-Charts and SMARD.
Cite this page
EREVergelijken.eu (2026). Trends in electricity, charging and ERE. Updated October 21, 2026. https://erevergelijken.eu/en/trends/
Quick answers
What was the average Dutch electricity price in September 2026?
On the Dutch day-ahead market an average of €0.152 per kWh (€152.21 per MWh), excluding VAT and energy tax. With energy tax and VAT a kWh came to about €0.295, plus your supplier’s markup. Source: Energy-Charts (Fraunhofer ISE), data Bundesnetzagentur | SMARD.de.
How often was the Dutch power price negative in 2026?
396 hours up to October 22, 2026, against 581 hours in all of 2025. Negative prices mostly occur on sunny, windy afternoons in spring and summer, when there is more power than needed.
How much does smart charging an electric car save?
Over the last 12 months the market price in the 4 cheapest hours of each day averaged €0.043 per kWh, against €0.146 between 6 and 10 pm. Including VAT that is €0.12 per kWh; for 2,700 kWh a year about €337. You only get this with a dynamic contract and if the car is plugged in during those hours.
How many energy suppliers are there in the Netherlands?
52 companies hold an ACM license to supply electricity to households and small businesses (register of October 19, 2026). Since 2019 the highest number was 62 (September 2021); since 2021, 20 licenses have been revoked. Many brands supply under another company’s license.
How many public charge points are there in the Netherlands?
227,773 on July 31, 2026 according to RVO: 138,311 public and 82,252 semi-public charge points under 50 kW, and 7,210 fast charge points. A year earlier there were 204,520.