By Cathy Elelman • Published: 09 Dec 2019 • 14:00
SPAIN is one of the most expensive countries in Europe for electricity, according to Eurostat figures.
The data puts Spain as having the third highest electricity tariffs in absolute terms. Only Ireland and Belgium have higher power prices, while Spain is considerably more expensive than the Ukraine, which has the cheapest electricity.
What’s more, Spain is ranked second in Europe for electricity cost increases over the last decade.
The tariff for a kilowatt per hour has gone up by an average of some 70 per cent since 2008 from €0.1123 to €0.1889. There was a particularly steep rise in power charges between 2008 and 2012.
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Cathy Elelman is the local writer for the Costa de Almeria edition of the Euro Weekly News.
Based in Mojacar for the last 21 years, Cathy is very much part of the local community and is always well and truly up on all the latest news and events going on in this region of Spain.
Her top goals are to do the best job she can informing the local English-speaking community, visitors to the area and the wider world about about the news in Almeria, to learn something new every day, and to embrace very new challenge this fast-changing world brings her way.
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