Industrial electricity prices
What makes up the industrial electricity price?
The electricity cost of industrial consumers is built from two main layers: the energy charge (the supplier’s commercial price) and the network charges (regulated by MEKH). The proportions depend on the voltage level, the type of settlement and the form of contract (fixed or spot).
The interactive analysis below presents the 2025–2026 actual data — based on MEKH’s official tariff tables and MAVIR’s KÁT publications.
System usage charges — time-series settlement
Volumetric charges (HUF/kWh) by voltage level · Source: MEKH
2025 → 2026 change
NF
-2.34
-30.4%
NF/KÖF
-2.33
-25.5%
KÖF
-2.33
-16.5%
KÖF/KIF III.
-2.33
-11.3%
KIF III.
-2.33
-8.3%
Transmission volumetric charge: 4.84 → 3.39 HUF/kWh (−30%). Distribution charges are unchanged.
KÖF — Annual fixed charges (2026)
216,504 HUF/yr
15,924 HUF/kW/yr
3.95 HUF/kVArh
The charges above do not depend on consumption — solar self-consumption does not reduce them.
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In our free energy assessment we analyse the price structure and show you the savings opportunities.
How can industrial electricity costs be reduced?
Solar PV — reducing consumption-based charges
A solar PV system installed on an industrial roof directly reduces the amount of electricity drawn from the grid. Every kWh used for self-consumption saves the full all-in price: the energy charge, the KÁT/Premium surcharge and the network energy charge. For a medium-voltage (KÖF) connection, this alone means a network-charge saving of 11.78 HUF/kWh in 2026.
Battery storage (BESS) — arbitrage and peak shaving
With a spot-price contract, battery storage profits from the daily HUPX price swings: it charges in the cheap daytime hours and discharges in the expensive morning and evening hours. In addition, peak shaving can reduce the contracted capacity charge — at KÖF level this is 15,924 HUF/kW/year, which means a saving of ~HUF 1.6 million a year for a 100 kW reduction.
The contract type fundamentally determines the strategy
With a fixed-price contract, solar saves more per kWh (because it replaces an expensive fixed price), but the arbitrage potential of battery storage is zero. With a spot contract, the value of a solar kWh is lower (because daytime spot prices are cheap), but the BESS can perform full arbitrage. The combination of the two technologies — PV+BESS — is strongest with a spot contract.
ICP’s simulation engine calculates with your specific consumption profile, electricity contract and site conditions — with 35,040 quarter-hour intervals, PVGIS solar irradiation data and HUPX exchange prices.
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