The average price of electricity in Portugal, in December of 2009, has been 0.1594€ per kilowatt hour. Electricity price has increased € 0.0086 kWh, 5.7% since the previous semester. Meanwhile, the average price of electricity without taxes in Portugal in that period was € 0.1383 per kilowatt hour, compared to € 0.1264 kWh in the previous semester. The price of electricity excluding taxes increased by 9.41%.
In the last twelve months the price of electricity in Portugal has increased by 29.74%.
In Portugal, the price of electricity reached its maximum price, € 0.1594kWh, in December of 2009. Its minimum price was €0.1482 kWh, corresponding to June of 2008.
When looking at the difference between the price of electricity with and without taxes, we see that households in Portugal paid € 0.0211 in taxes for each kilowatt hour, which means that 13.24% of what consumers pay for electricity is in concept taxes.
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