The wholesale price of electricity in Spaina reference measure for clients with a regulated tariff or PVPC, says goodbye to the annual lows of 2022, when the most turbulent year in its history occurred with historical highs, which resulted in an energy policy agreed upon by European partners.
He average price per megawatt hour today Wednesday, May 20, 2026 in Spain is €140.2/MWh. With the cap on gas, the price of the daily MWh has been reduced. For this Wednesday, the period in which we can save the most is the one included between 5 and 6 p.m.
Electricity prices: average, minimum and maximum price for Wednesday, May 20, 2026
AVERAGE PRICE OF THE DAY: €0.1402/kWh
LOWEST PRICE OF THE DAY: €0.0616/kWh from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
HIGHEST PRICE OF THE DAY: €0.2917/kWh from 9:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Price per kWh of electricity per hour:
- 00:00 – 01:00 – 0.13504€/kWh
- 01:00 – 02:00 – 0.12752€/kWh
- 02:00 – 03:00 – 0.12414€/kWh
- 03:00 – 04:00 – 0.12042€/kWh
- 04:00 – 05:00 – 0.11903€/kWh
- 05:00 – 06:00 – 0.12045€/kWh
- 06:00 – 07:00 – 0.15777€/kWh
- 07:00 – 08:00 – 0.16586€/kWh
- 08:00 – 09:00 – 0.15256€/kWh
- 09:00 – 10:00 – 0.08408€/kWh
- 10:00 – 11:00 – 0.12081€/kWh
- 11:00 – 12:00 – 0.12070€/kWh
- 12:00 – 13:00 – 0.12897€/kWh
- 13:00 – 14:00 – 0.13215€/kWh
- 14:00 – 15:00 – 0.06389€/kWh
- 15:00 – 16:00 – 0.06200€/kWh
- 16:00 – 17:00 – 0.06251€/kWh
- 17:00 – 18:00 – 0.06162€/kWh
- 18:00 – 19:00 – 0.13252€/kWh
- 19:00 – 20:00 – 0.17841€/kWh
- 20:00 – 21:00 – 0.25796€/kWh
- 21:00 – 22:00 – €0.29173/kWh
- 22:00 – 23:00 – 0.22864€/kWh
- 23:00 – 24:00 – 0.21512€/kWh
What factors affect price escalation?
The price escalation that affects the majority of Europe is due, among different factors, to the rise in gas prices in international marketswhich is used in combined cycle plants and which sets the market price in most hours and the increase in the value of carbon dioxide (CO2) emission rights.
