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In Finland it is the other way around. Household pays the full price with industry paying the same but get huge tax breaks.

Basically residential and companies pay the same but are taxed very differently in a form that ends up with companies paying way less electricity taxes.

It’s the other way around, at least in Germany. Households pay more than industry for electricity. https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/Germany/electricity_price...

Well. I have to admit you're right. But it seems to not be universally true.

In Poland I have found that price for companies can be 3x higher based on at least one source. C11 - the tariff for the companies seem to cost 1.6 PLN / kwH [1] G11 - the same tarrif for households seem to cost more like 0.4-0.5PLN / kwH [2]

[1] https://www.energa.pl/mala-firma/umowy/prad-dla-firm.html [2] https://www.energa.pl/dom/umowy/taryfa.html

I'd guess this is because of price regulation, not subsidy.

What's the difference?

No money transfer from the state to the energy company.

Nope. Wrong. The economy of scale works also for electricity. We don't have subsidized electricity. The other way around we had additional premiums to pay for green energy. That got yanked and is now paid by the general taxes.