Electricity price in Luxembourg in 2026: what a kWh costs and what it means for EV charging

In 2026, one extra kilowatt-hour costs a Luxembourg household on a dual-rate offer about €0.19 at night and €0.20 during the day, Creos network fee and VAT included. That is the price that counts when you charge an electric car, not the often-quoted average of €0.26.

This article breaks down the electricity price in Luxembourg into its components (energy, network, taxes, state aid), explains which published figure means what, shows how to find your own price on your bill, explains the Creos reference power introduced in 2025 with a worked example, compares prices by charging location and across the borders, and answers the key question for companies: which price should be used to reimburse company car charging? At Voltaback, which reimburses home charging for more than 200 companies, the answer is each driver's own contract price.

A free market with no regulated tariff

Luxembourg has no regulated retail electricity tariff. Every household chooses its supplier: Enovos (the largest), Sudstroum, Leo, Nordenergie, Steinergy and others. The regulator is the ILR (Institut Luxembourgeois de Régulation), which among other things approves network tariffs.

The grid itself is not open to competition. The network operator depends on the municipality: Creos for most of the country, plus a few local operators (City of Diekirch, City of Ettelbruck, Sudstroum). Network charges are the same whatever the supplier.

The result: two neighbours charging the same car do not pay the same price per kWh. It depends on the offer chosen (fixed price, dual rate, dedicated EV offer, dynamic tariff) and on each household's consumption profile.

What makes up a kWh in 2026?

The final price of a kWh is made of several blocks. For charging, only those that rise with consumption matter.

In 2026 the State is spending €150 million to lower network costs, about 3.9 cents per kWh on average, already included in the published tariffs. A separate State contribution to the compensation mechanism lowers the bill further. The network aid is planned for at least three years; network charges could rise again afterwards. Sources: Switchr, Creos network tariff 2026, Chronicle.lu, State funds network charges.

Marginal price versus average price: €0.19, not €0.26

This is the most common mistake, and it gets expensive when you reimburse a whole fleet.

The average bill price

The Ministry of the Economy quotes an average price of about 25.8 cents per kWh for a household using 3,900 kWh a year, against 33.9 cents without state aid. This figure divides the whole bill, fixed charges included, by the number of kWh. It is useful for comparing budgets, not for costing a charge.

The marginal price: what a charge really costs

Plugging in a car changes neither the fixed network fee nor the metering fee. Only energy, the volumetric network fee and VAT are added. A worked example with the Enovos "Naturstroum Home Double" offer:

Reimbursing a flat €0.26 overpays by about 35 % a resident who charges at night below their reference power. Conversely, a single Luxembourg price does not cover the cost of most cross-border workers (see below).

Which figure means what? The prices you find online

Search for "electricity price Luxembourg" and you will find values from €0.19 to over €0.30. They do not contradict each other; they measure different things:

So for any calculation about charging: take the marginal price from your own contract, not a figure from an article. Sources: EU Energy Prices, Eurostat data for Luxembourg; Chronicle.lu, 2026 household bills.

What changed in 2026

Household electricity got noticeably cheaper in 2026, for two reasons:

• Lower supplier energy prices: Enovos, for example, cut its single-rate "Naturstroum Home Mono" from €0.15730 to €0.13213 excl. VAT per kWh, more than 2.5 cents less.
• State aid on network costs: network charges fall sharply in 2026 because the State covers a large part of the cost.

The aid is temporary. In a multi-year business case, do not count on 2026 prices as fixed; work with a range. Source: Luxtoday, Enovos reduces electricity prices from 2026.

How Luxembourg compares in Europe

On Eurostat figures for the first half of 2026, a Luxembourg household pays about 20 cents per kWh all-in, against an EU average of about 25 cents and about 36 cents in Germany. Adjusted for purchasing power, Luxembourg is among the cheapest countries in the EU. For an EV driver, that makes home charging in Luxembourg one of the cheapest ways to drive in Europe, and it widens the gap with colleagues who live across the border.

How to find your own marginal price on your bill

To be reimbursed correctly, each driver needs the price of their own contract. On a Luxembourg electricity bill, you find it in four steps:

1. Find the supplier's energy price per kWh, split into day and night for dual-rate offers, usually shown excluding VAT.
2. Add the network operator's volumetric fee per kWh: €0.0510 excl. VAT at Creos in 2026.
3. Ignore the fixed items: the monthly network fee based on reference power, the metering fee, the subscription. You pay them with or without a car.
4. Add 8 % VAT to the total.

With a dynamic tariff there is no fixed price: what counts is the weighted average of the hours when the car actually charged. Without measuring charging times, it cannot be determined.

Reference power: the Luxembourg-specific piece

Since 1 January 2025, the low-voltage network tariff has been based on reference power. Creos (and the other network operators) assigns each connection one of ten categories (3, 7, 12, 17, 27 kW and above): the one that minimises its network costs based on the last 12 months. It is recalculated every month and shown on the bill, in myCreos and on the Leneda platform.

The smart meter records average power over each quarter of an hour. Going over the threshold for a few minutes costs nothing extra, as long as the quarter-hour average stays below it. Every kWh above the threshold, however, carries the €0.0765 excl. VAT surcharge.

For an electric car, this is decisive:

• Charging at 11 kW in a home with a 3 kW reference power falls largely into the overrun zone;
• charging at 3.7 kW, spread over the night, usually stays below a 7 kW threshold;
• after installing a wallbox, the customer can request a new category in myCreos; a simulator with sample EV load curves helps choose.

Source: Creos, guide to the 2026 tariff structure.

Worked example: higher reference power or overrun?

A driver charges 2,700 kWh a year at home (15,000 km at 18 kWh/100 km). The household is in the 3 kW category. With an 11 kW wallbox, about 2,000 of those kWh land above the threshold.

The 2,000 kWh above the threshold is an example: the real figure depends on the rest of the household's consumption and the charging power. The lesson holds: with controlled charging power or the right category, the network cost of charging can be almost entirely avoided. An 11 kW wallbox needs load management or a power limit set in the car's app to achieve this.

Smarty: the meter that makes it all work

More than 98 % of electricity meters in Luxembourg are Smarty smart meters, rolled out nationwide between 2017 and 2020. They record the load curve every quarter of an hour and make multi-period offers and dynamic tariffs possible. The few analogue or non-communicating meters are still billed under the old tariff structure.

How to measure charging when the meter does not give you the detail is covered in our article on charging without a smart meter.

Night offers and dynamic tariffs

With no regulated off-peak hours, suppliers create price differences across the day themselves:

• dual-rate offers: the night kWh is only slightly cheaper (about €0.19 against €0.20);
• dedicated charging offers such as Enovos "naturstroum drive", since March 2025, with a discount on the energy price at night and around midday at weekends;
• dynamic tariffs such as "dynamic naturstroum", which follow the hourly EPEX wholesale price for the Germany-Luxembourg bidding zone, published the day before.

Time windows, how they work and how to schedule your car are explained in our guide to charging your EV at night. Source: Enovos, dynamic naturstroum.

Price per kWh by charging location

Since the end of 2025, a concession holder has operated the public Chargy and SuperChargy network; the price depends on the mobility service provider used. The Klima-Agence Chargecheck tool lets you compare. Sources: Luxtoday, charging in Luxembourg, Chamber of Deputies, parliamentary question no. 4477, Electra, charging rates.

Charging with your own solar panels

More and more households charge during the day with power from their own photovoltaic system, subsidised through the Klimabonus Wunnen. Those kWh are not free: the household gives up the payment it would have received for feeding them into the grid, and it financed the installation. For company car reimbursement, this means solar power has a price too, and it can only be reimbursed correctly if the kWh charged are measured. Set in the car policy which price applies to self-generated electricity.

Public charging cards and roaming

On public charge points, the price depends not only on the operator but also on the mobility service provider you pay through. The same Chargy point can cost different amounts with two different cards. For fleets, it pays to choose a card with transparent per-kWh prices and to settle it in the same tool as home charging. For fast charging on the road, the Electra charging card is an option.

kWh paid versus kWh stored: charging losses

The household meter measures what comes from the grid, not what reaches the battery. In between, the on-board charger and the battery lose energy, around 10 % for home charging (more at very low power or in severe cold).

This matters for reimbursement: calculating with the kWh shown by the battery underestimates the driver's real cost. Correct measurement starts from the energy the driver is billed for.

Cost per 100 km

At a consumption of 18 kWh per 100 km at the meter:

• €3.40 at home at night (€0.19);
• €3.60 at home during the day (€0.20);
• €4.90 above the reference power (€0.27);
• €8.80 on Chargy and €11.35 on SuperChargy.

For a driver covering 15,000 km a year with 80 % of charging at home at night and 20 % on Chargy, that is about €410 for home charging and €265 in public, or roughly €675 a year. Charged entirely on SuperChargy, the same mileage would cost about €1,700.

The breakdown by battery size, per month and per year is in our article on the cost to charge an electric car in Luxembourg.

For fleets: where the car charges matters more than the supplier

Between two Luxembourg suppliers, the price per kWh differs by a few cents. Between home charging and SuperChargy, it differs by a factor of three. A fleet manager's first lever is therefore organising home charging, the second is reimbursing it correctly.

The cross-border gap

On 31 March 2026, 49 % of employees in Luxembourg were cross-border workers. Their company car charges at the electricity price of their country of residence. Source: IGSS, March 2026.

A single price of €0.19 covers barely 60 % of the cost for a cross-border worker living in Germany. Over 2,700 kWh charged at home a year, that is a shortfall of about €350 per driver, paid out of their own pocket for a company car.

Which price should you use for reimbursement?

Luxembourg has no official flat rate per kWh and no rate published by the ACD. In practice, following the logic of the Grand-Ducal regulation of 23 December 2016, a company car's electricity is a running cost of the car covered by the flat-rate benefit in kind, provided the real cost of the kWh actually charged is reimbursed. Any amount above that would be taxable salary. This widely used reading has not been officially confirmed, so have it checked by your fiduciary.

That gives the rule:

1. The driver's contract price, not a national average and not the average bill price.
2. The marginal price, without the fixed charges the driver pays anyway.
3. The kWh actually charged into the company car at home, measured rather than estimated.

That is exactly what Voltaback does: the platform connects to the car with no box (more than 48 brands), identifies home charging sessions and applies each driver's contract price, resident or cross-border. Voltaback relies on the home's MID-certified meter, not on a standalone cable meter. The measurement has been audited by an independent third party (1.22 % relative error), and the company never receives drivers' location data. See the home charging reimbursement page.

If your company still relies on expense claims, our article on EV charging expense claims shows their limits and how to move on.

Reimburse at the right price, without manual work

Electricity is cheap in Luxembourg, but the price varies from one driver to the next, and even more across the border. Reimbursing correctly means measuring and pricing per driver, which Voltaback automates every month. Estimate your fleet's cost with the home charging cost simulator or contact the Voltaback team.