Spot electricity in Romania rose 38% in October to 1,265.96 lei/MWh, according to OPCOM

The electricity market operator OPCOM published on 2 November the weighted average price recorded on the Day-Ahead Market (PZU) in October 2026: 1,265.96 lei/MWh. The figure is published under ANRE Order No. 15/2022.

The figures. In September, the same indicator stood at 917.36 lei/MWh, according to OPCOM’s announcement of 1 October. The difference is 348.60 lei/MWh, an increase of about 38% month on month, as the specialist publication Energynomics also noted. The PZU is the exchange segment on which electricity is traded for delivery the following day.

Context. The increase comes after Eurostat data on household electricity prices placed Romania first in the European Union for the annual increase in the first half of 2026: up 51.6% on the same period last year. Ireland follows with 19.8% and Finland with 18.4%, while Denmark (minus 31.7%) and Luxembourg (minus 24.1%) recorded the largest decreases. The EU average fell to 0.28 euro/kWh, from 0.29 euro/kWh in the second half of 2025, with prices ranging from 0.11 euro/kWh in Hungary to 0.39 euro/kWh in Ireland. The Eurostat data cover January–June 2026, so they do not capture wholesale price developments in October.

What it means for consumers. Analysts at Frames, quoted by Energynomics, say that households on fixed-price contracts are partly shielded from these jumps, but increases on the wholesale market pass quickly into the costs of industry and commerce and, with a delay, into the prices paid by consumers.

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