The average price of electricity in Portugal, in December of 2008, has been 0.1525€ per kilowatt hour. Electricity price has increased € 0.0043 kWh, 2.9% since the last semester. Meanwhile, the average price of electricity without taxes in Portugal in that period was € 0.1066 per kilowatt hour, €0.74% less than in the previous period, in which the price of electricity without taxes was €0.1074kWh.
In the last twelve months the price of electricity in Portugal has fallen by 11.61%.
From 2007 until now, the highest price of electricity in Portugal has been € 0.1562 kWh, in December of 2007, while in June of 2008, electricity price was € 0.1482 kWh, its minimum price in this period.
Finally, if we compare the price of electricity with taxes and without taxes, we see that, in the last period, households paid € 0.0459 of taxes for each kilowatt hour, which means that 30.1% of what households pay for the electricity are taxes.
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