Name: solarpanelcost country dataset
Creator: solarpanelcost
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The country dataset

Twenty-eight European countries. Retail electricity prices come from Eurostat nrg_pc_204, household band DC (2,500–4,999 kWh/year), all taxes included, second half of 2025. Yield figures are optimal-tilt annual specific production, from PVGIS cross-checked against the Global Solar Atlas. Installed cost and battery cost are indicative market references in euros per kWp and per usable kWh. Export share is the value of an exported kilowatt-hour as a fraction of the retail price — a France at 0.043 means a surplus kilowatt-hour is worth 4.3 % of what you pay for one. Self-install says whether a homeowner may legally install a grid-connected system themselves — DC only means the AC connection is reserved to an installer registered with the grid operator — and Pro cost is what a self-installer still has to pay for certification, inspection or that reserved work. Those two columns are researched for the six documented countries; elsewhere they are a conservative placeholder.

The six countries marked with a check have every figure traced to a dated national source; the rest are calibrated orders of magnitude. We would rather say so than pretend otherwise.

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Country	Yield kWh/kWp/yr	Seasonality	Electricity €/kWh	Install €/kWp	Battery €/kWh	Currency	Export share	Latitude
Austria AT	1150	0.35	0.2714	1500	598	EUR	0.250	47
Belgium BE	1050	0.32	0.3496	1334	626	EUR	0.140	51
Bulgaria BG	1350	0.40	0.1306	1003	501	BGN	0.350	43
Croatia HR	1350	0.42	0.1601	1196	524	EUR	0.450	45
Czechia CZ	1080	0.32	0.2806	1302	552	CZK	0.300	50
Denmark DK	1020	0.27	0.3597	1500	644	DKK	0.350	56
Estonia EE	950	0.20	0.1996	1196	524	EUR	0.600	59
Finland FI	930	0.18	0.1996	1500	626	EUR	0.550	62
France FR	1250	0.38	0.2558	2000	649	EUR	0.043	47
Germany DE	1100	0.33	0.3864	1104	552	EUR	0.200	51
Greece GR	1600	0.55	0.2098	1150	524	EUR	0.350	38
Hungary HU	1200	0.36	0.1297	1104	501	HUF	0.700	47
Italy IT	1450	0.48	0.2962	1306	598	EUR	0.430	42
Latvia LV	980	0.20	0.1904	1251	524	EUR	0.550	57
Liechtenstein LI	1150	0.35	0.2300	2070	828	CHF	0.450	47
Lithuania LT	1000	0.21	0.1904	1150	501	EUR	0.650	55
Luxembourg LU	1050	0.32	0.2098	1702	626	EUR	0.550	50
Malta MT	1750	0.60	0.1500	1251	524	EUR	0.700	36
Netherlands NL	1030	0.30	0.2558	800	501	EUR	0.300	52
Norway NO	900	0.17	0.1398	1702	649	NOK	0.700	61
Poland PL	1050	0.30	0.2401	1104	501	PLN	0.550	52
Portugal PT	1650	0.55	0.2401	1302	524	EUR	0.300	39
Romania RO	1300	0.38	0.2098	1049	501	RON	0.550	45
Slovakia SK	1150	0.34	0.2696	1251	524	EUR	0.250	48
Slovenia SI	1250	0.38	0.1996	1251	524	EUR	0.600	46
Spain ES	1560	0.55	0.2668	1472	524	EUR	0.270	40
Sweden SE	980	0.20	0.1904	1500	626	SEK	0.600	60
Switzerland CH	1200	0.35	0.2300	2070	828	CHF	0.450	47

Last updated 2026-09-21 · Licence: CC BY 4.0 — reuse, modify and republish freely, with attribution to solarpanelcost.org.

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