Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 10 July 2014
114. Deputy Michael Colreavy asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the percentage increases in domestic electricity costs over the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30447/14]
View answerThe Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) publishes comprehensive and publicly available statistics on energy prices in Ireland and the EU, based on Eurostat and IEA/OECD data. SEAI's annual Energy In Ireland reports contain price information and are available on their website. Using price data submitted to the OECD and the IEA, the latest SEAI Energy in Ireland 1990 - 2012 report, published in December 2013, shows that Irish residential electricity prices increased by 17% in real terms between 2005 and 2013. By comparison, for example, in the UK electricity prices increased by 39% in real times for the same period, for Greece the increase is 42% and electricity prices increased by 30% in Germany. For the OECD Europe countries, electricity prices increased by 25% in real terms between 2005 and 2013. This report is available at the following link:
http://www.seai.ie/Publications/Statistics_Publications/Energy_in_Ireland/Energy_in_Ireland_1990_-_2012_Report.pdf
Electricity price statistics for Ireland and EU Member States are also publicly available. SEAI publishes biannual reports on electricity and gas prices in Ireland. The reports analyse electricity and natural gas price data, as published by Eurostat and collected for Ireland and other European countries under the methodology for the EU Gas and Electricity Price Transparency Directive 90/377/EEC as amended by Council Decision 2007/394/EC. Since 2008, these comparable data for all EU Member States are published every six months on the Eurostat website. The most recent SEAI biannual price report was published in May 2014 and contains electricity and gas price statistics for the period July to December 2013. These electricity and gas price reports, going back to 2008, are available on the SEAI website at the following link:
http://www.seai.ie/Publications/Statistics_Publications/
