Traction electricity calibration

Two separate charges make up the electricity line:

The two components

The energy itself, a price per kilowatt-hour set by each country's traction electricity supply arrangement. Where a country operates a night tariff band, both the day and night rates were collected.

The delivery, what the infrastructure manager charges for supplying power through the overhead line, typically a separate per-kilometre or per-kilowatt-hour term in the network statement.

Provenance

Thirty-five values read from a named locator. As with track access, these come from published network statements and supply tariffs rather than from estimates.

The documents are listed under traction electricity: nineteen national network statements and supply tariffs, plus Eurostat's non-household electricity price series, CE Delft's European transport taxes database and the UK fuel price tables, which fill in where no rail-specific price is published.

Night bands

Only Austria, Switzerland and Croatia operate a traction electricity night tariff. Everywhere else there is one rate around the clock, and the night/day split the model computes has no effect. Where a band exists, the share of the country run falling inside it is applied to the kilowatt-hours drawn.

Price basis

Escalated to the 2032 evaluation year at 2% a year, with currency converted once at the pinned snapshot.

Found a mistake?

This documentation describes a model that is still being built, and some of it will be wrong. If a number looks off, a source is missing, or an explanation does not hold up, tell us — it reaches the working group with the page you were reading.