{
  "slug": "global-residential-electricity-prices",
  "title": "Global Residential Electricity Prices: The Demand Side of Solar Economics",
  "url": "https://solaranalytica.com/global-residential-electricity-prices",
  "summary": "Residential retail electricity prices across 92 cities and 70 countries, 2016 to 2025, read as the demand side of solar economics. A panel is worth its yield multiplied by the local price, so a subsidised tariff can outweigh strong sun: Cairo out-yields Berlin on sunlight yet returns roughly one-eleventh the annual value per kilowatt.",
  "license": "Free to use with attribution to Solar Analytica (solaranalytica.com). Underlying figures are named to their public sources below.",
  "csv": "https://solaranalytica.com/reports/global-residential-electricity-prices/data.csv",
  "datePublished": "2026-06-09",
  "lastReviewed": "2026-06-09",
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "GlobalPetrolPrices: household electricity prices, 2025-2026",
      "url": "https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/electricity_prices/"
    },
    {
      "title": "US EIA Electric Power Monthly, January 2026 (state residential rates)",
      "url": "https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.php?t=epmt_5_6_a"
    },
    {
      "title": "Hydro-Québec: Comparison of Electricity Prices in Major North American Cities, 2025",
      "url": "https://www.hydroquebec.com/data/documents-donnees/pdf/comparaison-prix-2025-en.pdf"
    },
    {
      "title": "Canstar: Electricity costs per kWh, May 2026",
      "url": "https://www.canstar.com.au/energy/electricity-costs-kwh/"
    },
    {
      "title": "EcoFlow / Canstar: Australian cost of electricity per kWh, February 2026",
      "url": "https://www.ecoflow.com/au/blog/cost-of-electricity-per-kwh"
    },
    {
      "title": "Eurostat: Electricity price statistics for household consumers",
      "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Electricity_price_statistics"
    },
    {
      "title": "UK DESNZ: International domestic energy prices",
      "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/international-domestic-energy-prices"
    },
    {
      "title": "World Bank Open Data: getting-electricity price proxy, 2016-2019",
      "url": "https://data.worldbank.org/"
    },
    {
      "title": "NASA MERRA-2 reanalysis (yield model input, 1994-2024)",
      "url": "https://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/reanalysis/MERRA-2/"
    },
    {
      "title": "NASA CERES EBAF (surface irradiance for yield model)",
      "url": "https://ceres.larc.nasa.gov/"
    }
  ],
  "figures": [
    {
      "id": "regional-retail-price-2025",
      "title": "Average residential retail electricity price by region, 2025",
      "unit": "USD/kWh",
      "caption": "Average 2025 residential retail price by region, USD per kWh, taxes and network charges included. Western Europe's average runs roughly five times South Asia's; each region's city extremes are in the table below.",
      "series": [
        {
          "label": "Western Europe",
          "value": 0.319
        },
        {
          "label": "Oceania",
          "value": 0.221
        },
        {
          "label": "S. & C. America",
          "value": 0.179
        },
        {
          "label": "E. Europe, C. Asia",
          "value": 0.156
        },
        {
          "label": "North America",
          "value": 0.155
        },
        {
          "label": "Sub-Saharan Africa",
          "value": 0.144
        },
        {
          "label": "East Asia",
          "value": 0.135
        },
        {
          "label": "Southeast Asia",
          "value": 0.101
        },
        {
          "label": "MENA",
          "value": 0.078
        },
        {
          "label": "South Asia",
          "value": 0.064
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "value-of-a-kilowatt-2025",
      "title": "Annual grid-offset value of 1 kWp, selected markets, 2025",
      "unit": "USD/kWp/yr",
      "caption": "Annual grid-offset value of 1 kWp, 2025 retail price times modelled TOPCon yield. Cairo out-yields Berlin on sunlight yet returns roughly one-eleventh of Berlin's value: the tariff, not the sun, decides. Both inputs per market in the table below.",
      "series": [
        {
          "label": "Los Angeles",
          "value": 545
        },
        {
          "label": "Madrid",
          "value": 480
        },
        {
          "label": "Berlin",
          "value": 461
        },
        {
          "label": "Athens",
          "value": 432
        },
        {
          "label": "Santiago",
          "value": 398
        },
        {
          "label": "Perth",
          "value": 377
        },
        {
          "label": "Cairo",
          "value": 41
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}