Energy prices and costs in Europe 2018

The current report represents the final deliverable of the 2018 edition of the “Composition and Drivers of Energy Prices and Costs: Case Studies in Selected Energy Intensive Industries” (hereinafter “the Assignment”). The Assignment aimed to achieve two main objectives: 1. Providing well-grounded, bottom-up evidence of the composition and drivers of energy prices and energy costs faced by industrial operators in EU energy intensive sectors. 2. Assessing the impact of energy prices and costs and of their components on the cost competitiveness and, where possible, international competitiveness of EU energy intensive sectors.