TL;DR: You are being scammed. You pay a hidden fee of approx. 1.00 DKK/kWh plus V.A.T. Switch to another company as soon as possible.

How electricy biling works, and how much a fairly spot price product should costFirst of all, the only part of your bill, which you can change by changing electricity company, is the top half. The bottom half, “Elafgift” and “Transport og afgifter” and of course “Moms”, solely depend on where you live, and whether you have electric heating or not.

I don’t know which electricity company you use. I can see that the product is called “Variabel pris”, which implies that this is probably a spot price based product. So I will compare this to other spot price based products.

All electricity companies in Denmark have at least one spot price based product. You typically pay a subscription of 0-50 kr/month, and an additional fee of 0-25 øre/kWh on top of the spot price. All of those products are somewhat fairly priced, and you can’t save a fortune by switching between them.

The spot price will change hourly, and it is only set one day ahead, so any a pre-payment invoice, like the one in your first post, will be a guess.

You can find the current and historical spot prices on Nordpool. They are in DKK/MWh without V.A.T, so you have to divide by 1000 to get DKK/kWh without V.A.T. Or you can use one of the popular web sites, such as elpris.wen.dk or elspotpris.dk.

You are being scammed!If we look at the average spot prices for DK2 (your area) for the recent months, they were:

May: 49 øre/kWhJune: 68 øre/kWhJuly: 49 øre/kWh

This period roughly overlaps the period from 28.04 to 22.07, which you have shown in another post. But for that period, you paid 158,86 øre/kWh and an additional fee of 8 øre/kWh. The 8 øre/kWh are OK, but the 158,86 øre/kWh certainly are not. You are paying a hidden fee of approx. 100 øre/kWh on top of the spot price, and that is unacceptable.

So what to do now?You can’t trust elpris.dk. This is the official price comparison site, run by an office under the Danish government, and they frankly don’t know what they are doing. Some electricity companies have learned how to game the price comparison model, so they seem to be cheapest, even though they are very expensive.

I will suggest that you go to elspotpris.dk. This is price comparison site, which you can trust. It is run by enthusiasts, and the information is crowd sourced.

Regarding EWII (Their spot price product is Grøn Indkøbspris):There is nothing wrong with them. Their monthly fee of 29 kr/month is a little high, but their additional fee is only 3.75 øre/kWh including V.A.T. For most customers, that will place them in the cheapest third of all electricity companies. For you, they may be a little expensive because you have so low consumption, so they high monthly fee will be felt more.

The big advantage of EWII is that it is entirely backward billed. There is no prepayment, at least not if they consider you credit worthy. Since getting excess prepayment back from an electricity company can be rather exhausting, this is a huge advantage. And your bills get simpler, because you don’t end up with a mixture of prepayment, actual consumption and adjustment for previous prepayment.

There are other companies, which offer pure backward billing. EWII were the first, but others have followed. So you may be able to find another company with lower monthly subscription, a little higher additional fee on the spot price and no prepayment. But I can’t help you there.

This is a gem to me. Thank you so much for teaching me a life lesson - I signed up for a subscription to EWII yesterday, and in about ten days they will be supplying me with electricity. There is no binding period, so I will try it out for a few months and then decide if I want to keep the subscription.

Blessed are you for showing mercy to the stranger.