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What does it cost, and who pays?

The Bill

The wholesale price is only the start. This is the economic and consumer half — what flexibility is worth, and how a megawatt-hour becomes your monthly bill.

Flexibility Chart

What a shiftable load — EV, heat pump, battery — charging in the cheapest hours saves a year.

An unachievable upper bound: perfect foresight, zero losses, no price impact.

upper bound€/yr vs flat tariff

Retail Wedge Chart

Your bill decomposed: wholesale, grid fees, levies and taxes — and how the wedge has shifted.

3 partswholesale | grid | taxes

Industrial Prices Chart

What heavy industry pays — DE against France, Spain and Norway, country-level and honestly bounded.

Country-level bands. Not a substitute for a negotiated industrial contract.

DE vs FR/ES/NOEurostat, country-level

Curtailment in € Chart

The price tag on wasted wind: curtailed MWh × a reference rate, a labelled estimate.

An estimate at a reference price, not a settled cost.

€1.0 bn est.running total, estimate
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