Electricity price in Spain today
Check today’s Spanish PVPC, the cheapest and most expensive hours, and how timing can change your energy cost. Data updates automatically from Red Eléctrica de España / ESIOS.
Best time to use electricity
If you can shift the washing machine, dishwasher or other loads, these are the cheapest periods of the day.
Hours to avoid if possible
These are the hours with the highest PVPC energy term today.
How much can you save by shifting consumption?
Calculating difference…
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Comparing the current hour with today’s average…
Best consecutive periods
For washing machines, dishwashers, water heaters or climate equipment, consecutive blocks matter more than a single cheap hour.
How much does it cost to run an appliance today?
Enter power and usage time. BricoDato compares starting now with the best consecutive period today.
What makes sense today
Preparing today’s summary…
Hourly PVPC price
What price does BricoDato show?
BricoDato shows the hourly active-energy billing term of Spain’s regulated PVPC tariff, in €/kWh. According to Red Eléctrica, this term includes the energy cost and the applicable energy-related network tolls and regulated charges. It does not include taxes or fixed items such as the contracted-power term, so it is not the price of a complete electricity bill.
How to estimate the cost of an appliance
Multiply the appliance’s actual power in kW by the hours used in each hourly period, then multiply each period’s kWh by its PVPC price. Add those hourly costs. Rated power is only a starting point: a thermostat, heating cycle or standby mode can make real consumption different.
Worked example: if a 1.5 kW appliance runs continuously for one hour at €0.15/kWh and another hour at €0.20/kWh, the estimated energy cost is (1.5 × 0.15) + (1.5 × 0.20) = €0.525, about €0.53. These two prices are examples, not today’s rates; taxes and fixed bill items are excluded.
Does this price apply to your contract?
These figures are for PVPC customers. If you have a free-market contract, check the €/kWh and time periods on your own bill: the price you pay may not follow the hourly PVPC chart. Moving an appliance to a cheaper PVPC hour only saves energy cost if your tariff actually charges different prices at those times.
Before choosing an hour
- Check the date displayed above the chart. Do not treat a delayed or unavailable feed as a live price.
- For a cycle lasting several hours, compare consecutive periods rather than only the cheapest single hour.
- Tomorrow’s prices appear only after the source has published them; until then, use today’s data.
Calculate the cost of running an appliance
Enter power and usage hours with any electricity price you choose.
Source and updates
BricoDato retrieves open data from Preciluz on its server, generated from Red Eléctrica de España / ESIOS. Before displaying it, the server checks the date and hourly values and temporarily keeps the latest valid copy to reduce outages if the external source stops responding for a few minutes.
Open data: Preciluz → · Official ESIOS source →
Attribution: data served by Preciluz under CC BY 4.0, based on REE/ESIOS. Values are shown in €/kWh and correspond to the PVPC energy term; they do not represent the full electricity bill.
Useful tools for tracking consumption
Meters and smart plugs with energy monitoring that fit directly into household consumption tracking.
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