Electricity prices in Croatia
What a household in Croatia pays for electricity, where the power comes from, and how the country differs from its neighbours.
Croatia's electricity rises and falls with its rivers. Hydropower is the largest domestic source, from the Cetina and other karst rivers in Dalmatia to the Drava in the north, so a wet year and a dry year can look very different for the whole system. Gas plants, wind farms in the windswept Dalmatian hinterland and a share of a Slovenian nuclear plant fill the gaps.
What Croatian households pay has been shielded from the wholesale market: since 2022 the government has repeatedly set limits on retail prices, and most homes are still supplied by the state-owned HEP group. The day-ahead market itself, CROPEX, is coupled with the rest of Europe, but its hourly prices are not shown on this page.
The exchange's hourly prices in Croatia may not be freely republished, so this page does not show them. The household prices here are Eurostat's official figures, updated every six months.
Where does the electricity in Croatia come from?
Gross electricity generation in 2024 by energy source. Source: Eurostat (nrg_bal_peh).
Household price since 2023
Average price per kWh, all-in, for a household using 2,500–5,000 kWh a year. Source: Eurostat (nrg_pc_204).
A household in Croatia using 2,500–5,000 kWh a year paid 18.2 c/kWh on average, all-in, in H1 2026, 12% more than a year before (Eurostat).
Eurostat's figure for each half-year, with taxes, levies, network costs and VAT. Updated twice a year.
How the electricity price works in Croatia
CROPEX, HERA and a market households barely feel
Electricity for the next day is traded on CROPEX, the Croatian power exchange, as part of European market coupling; Croatia is one bidding zone. HOPS operates the transmission grid, and the regulator HERA (Hrvatska energetska regulatorna agencija) sets network charges and supervises the market. In principle households can switch supplier, but the HEP group – generation, distribution through HEP ODS and supply through HEP Elektra – still serves the large majority. Government decrees adopted since the 2022 crisis have capped what households pay, loosening the link to the exchange.
Plavi, bijeli and the fees on top
Households choose between tariff models. The blue model (plavi) has one price around the clock; the white model (bijeli) has a higher day rate and a lower night rate, which suits electric water heaters and storage heaters. On top of the energy come charges for using the transmission and distribution grid, a fixed monthly fee for the metering point, a fee that funds support for renewables, a solidarity fee that helps households at risk of energy poverty, and VAT. Bills have been in euro since Croatia adopted the currency in 2023.
Rain, bura and imported gas
Rainfall in the Dinaric karst decides how much water the hydro plants can use, and in dry years Croatia imports more. The bura, the cold north-easterly wind of the Adriatic coast, can make the wind farms produce strongly in winter. Gas plants set the price in many hours, and gas now also arrives as LNG through the floating terminal on the island of Krk, opened in 2021. Demand peaks twice: in winter for heating, and in summer, when tourism fills the coast and air conditioners run.
Water first, then gas, wind and the sun
Hydropower provides the largest share, from storage plants in Lika and Dalmatia and run-of-river plants on the Drava. Gas-fired plants in and around Zagreb and in Sisak come next, and they also supply district heating. Wind farms, most of them in the hinterland of Šibenik, Split and Zadar, have grown steadily, and solar has started to follow. The coal plant at Plomin in Istria is the last of its kind. Croatia's half of Krško does not appear here, as statistics count it in Slovenia.
Neighbours: a shared reactor and Pannonian nuclear
Slovenia is the closest partner: the two countries own Krško together, their grids are tightly linked, and Slovenia's mix of nuclear, hydro and lignite is steadier than Croatia's rain-dependent system. Hungary leans on its Paks nuclear plant and growing solar, and several lines across the Drava connect it with Croatia. Across the Adriatic, Italy runs mostly on gas and usually has higher prices. To the south and east, Croatia also trades with Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia, outside the EU.
Croatia compared with its neighbours
In 2024, hydro made 43%, gas made 21% and wind made 17% of the electricity generated in Croatia. Wind, solar, hydro, nuclear and bioenergy together made 72% of generation in Croatia.
Gross electricity generation in 2024 by energy source. Source: Eurostat (nrg_bal_peh). Pumped hydro is left out.
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Questions about the electricity price in Croatia
- What does an ordinary household in Croatia pay for electricity?
- A household in Croatia using 2,500–5,000 kWh a year paid 18.2 c/kWh per kWh on average, all-in, in H1 2026, according to Eurostat. The price varies with the network company and the contract.
- How much of the electricity in Croatia comes from hydro?
- 43% of the electricity generated in Croatia came from hydro in 2024 (Eurostat), the largest single source.
- How does the power mix in Croatia compare with the neighbours?
- In 2024: Croatia: hydro 43%, gas 21%; Slovenia: nuclear 35%, hydro 30%; Hungary: nuclear 42%, solar 24%; Italy: gas 44%, hydro 19%.
- Why does this page show no hourly prices for Croatia?
- Croatia's day-ahead prices are set on CROPEX, the national power exchange, within the European market coupling. Its data may not be freely republished, so this page shows no hourly chart. Instead it uses Eurostat's official household prices, which include network charges, fees and VAT and can be compared across the EU.
- What is the difference between the blue and the white tariff?
- The blue model (plavi) charges one energy price for every hour. The white model (bijeli) splits the day into a higher tariff and a lower night tariff, so it pays off when a large part of consumption, such as a water heater or storage heater, can run at night. It requires a two-rate meter.
- Why does Croatia's mix show no nuclear power?
- Croatia owns half of the Krško nuclear plant, and half of its output is delivered to Croatia. But the plant stands in Slovenia, so statistics count all of its generation as Slovenian. In Croatia's figures that electricity shows up as imports, which is why the country's own mix contains no nuclear.