The price of electricity will drop on Saturday – the cheapest hour is less than a cent

The average hourly price of exchange electricity for consumers is affordable on Saturday. The lowest price of the day is seen at 2 p.m., when electricity costs 0.8 cents per kilowatt hour. At other times as well, prices mostly stay below six cents.

The hourly prices stated in the article are averages calculated from the four quarter-hour prices for each hour. The electricity exchange Nord Pool switched to 15-minute pricing from the beginning of October 2025.

Hourly rates below five cents are common and occur about half the time. Saturday’s price level is clearly below the typical hourly price of around four cents and also below the average price of electricity, which is around seven to eight cents.

On Friday, the price of electricity was higher. At 8 o’clock in the morning the price was 10.7 cents per kilowatt hour, but in the afternoon it has settled between about four and five cents.

The article was prepared by artificial intelligence based on price data. The text has been checked and edited by the editor. The price data are price quotations from the electricity exchange Nord Pool. A value added tax of 25.5 percent has been added to them. Historical comparative data has been calculated based on price data for the period between November 2022 and May 2025.