Electricity is also expensive on Wednesday, but the price will drop from Tuesday’s peak

The average hourly price of exchange electricity for consumers (incl. VAT 25.5 percent) will remain at a high level on Wednesday. The highest hourly price of the day is 17.6 cents per kilowatt hour in the morning at 8 o’clock. The cheapest electricity is in the afternoon at 3 p.m., when the price is 7.7 cents per kilowatt hour.

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.

Wednesday’s price level is clearly about four cents more expensive than the typical hourly price. Most of the day’s prices are at a moderate or high level, which occur a total of about 40 percent of the time.

On Tuesday, the price of electricity will rise to a rare level in the evening. At 10 p.m., the price reaches a price peak of 21.2 cents per kilowatt hour. Hourly rates above 20 cents occur only about seven percent of the time.

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.