Electricity price indexes for your charging tariff: day-ahead markets in 12 countries, Spain's PVPC, time-of-use and cost-plus

On askacharge.com the price the driver pays can move on its own: follow your zone's electricity market, Spain's PVPC, your own time-of-use bands or what electricity costs you, always with your margin on top. These are the indexes available today, with today's price.

Tied to the electricity market, with today's price

Each zone's wholesale price, slot by slot. The driver pays that price plus your margin, changing every hour or every quarter hour. Central European time.

In any country and any currency

They depend on no market: they work in Madrid, New Jersey, Bogotá or Toronto.

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Your own time-of-use bands

You set the price of each band and each weekday, in local time and in your currency. Off-peak, mid, peak, weekends… however you charge.

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Your electricity cost + margin

You enter what electricity costs you (flat or by bands) and the driver pays that plus your margin. If your contract changes, change the cost and the tariff follows.

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Fixed price

The usual one: a price per kWh, per hour or per session. Still there for anyone who wants it not to move.

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Being studied

Countries where we already know where to get the price from, but it is not built yet. No dates: it gets built when a brand needs it.

🇺🇸United States: your utility's time-of-use tariff, from the Department of Energy's public rate database.

🇨🇦Canada: hourly price in Alberta (AESO) and Ontario (IESO).

🇬🇧United Kingdom: Octopus Agile tariff, by region.

🇨🇴Colombia: XM spot price.

🇲🇽Mexico: CENACE local marginal price.

🇨🇱Chile: National Electricity Coordinator marginal cost.

🇵🇹🇮🇹🇸🇪🇳🇴🇫🇮Portugal, Italy and the Nordics: there is a public price, but its data licence does not allow showing it to customers. We are looking for one that does.

Is your country or your index missing?

We are an open platform: if your tariff follows another public price (your utility's, your grid operator's, a national index), tell us which and we will look at bringing it in. Every new index becomes available to every brand.

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How it is charged and what to know

The market price is wholesale: no network fees, levies or taxes. Your margin has to cover them.
Market + margin and PVPC + margin are charged in euros. Time-of-use and cost-plus, in your brand's currency.
It is charged slot by slot from the charger's meter readings: a session from 20:00 to 23:00 pays each quarter hour at its own price, not all of it at the last one.
On the QR page the driver sees the current price and the day's curve before charging.

Sources: Red Eléctrica (REE) for Spain and the PVPC; Bundesnetzagentur | SMARD.de (CC BY 4.0), via Energy-Charts, for the other zones.

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