Your bill comes from your electricity supplier, but a large part of the price is set by your grid company. You are free to choose your supplier. The grid company follows your address, and its tariff is what makes power between 5 and 9 pm expensive.
The grid company owns and runs the grid in your area - the cables, the substations and the meter. There is only one grid company per area, so you cannot choose it. If you move, you may get a different one.
The supplier buys power on the exchange and sells it on to you. You can choose any supplier in Denmark, wherever you live, and switch whenever you like. So suppliers do not belong to a particular area - only grid companies do.
The spot price is set by the market and is the same for everyone in the same part of the country. The supplier sets its own mark-up per kWh and any subscription. The grid company sets the grid tariff, which pays for carrying the power to your home. Energinet sets the tariffs for the national grid, and the state sets the electricity tax. Finally, 25% VAT is added.
The supplier sends one bill with everything on it. That is why it looks as if the supplier sets the whole price, but the grid tariff, Energinet's tariffs and the tax are simply passed on.
Most grid companies have a low price at night, a medium price in the daytime and a high price from 5 to 9 pm, when most people use power. Prices are highest in winter. From October 2026 the grid tariff per kWh excl. VAT is, for example: Radius DKK 0.11 at night and DKK 0.96 from 5 to 9 pm, Cerius 0.12 and 1.04, N1 0.09 and 0.79, and TREFOR El-net 0.04 and 0.39.
Energinet's tariffs (DKK 0.12) and the electricity tax (0.8 øre in 2026) are the same around the clock and the same for everyone.
Charging 30 kWh with Radius at a spot price of DKK 1 per kWh costs about DKK 78 incl. VAT at 6 pm and about DKK 46 at 3 am. The difference of DKK 32 comes from the grid tariff alone - the spot price is the same in the example.
So charging at night pays off even when the spot price is not lower. If the spot price is also low at night, the difference is even larger.
Your grid company is on your electricity bill, usually next to the line for the grid tariff or transport. Your supplier's mark-up per kWh is in your contract or on the bill as a mark-up on the spot price. Monthly subscriptions are not part of the price per kWh.
Some grid companies have several areas, for example N1 and Konstant. Right now they have the same household C tariff in all areas, so you can pick any of them.
With a connected EV, OFFLIST prices each charge at home hour by hour: the spot price, your grid company's tariff, Energinet's tariffs and the electricity tax in the hours the car charged, plus your supplier's mark-up and VAT. The tariffs come from Energinet's DataHub, where every grid company must publish them.
If you have connected Eloverblik, we read the tariff straight from your meter. Otherwise you choose your grid company under My charges on My dashboard. If you choose nothing, we use a fixed mark-up and the price is an estimate. Charges away from home use a fixed price per kWh that you can change.
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