Electricity Bills in Turkey: Rates and the Household Limit
A household electricity bill worked from the energy regulator’s table of 4 April 2026: the rates, the yearly limit and each step.
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In Türkiye the price of household electricity is not set by the company that sends the bill. The Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EPDK), Türkiye’s energy regulator, publishes a tariff table. The bill is that table applied to your meter reading, plus taxes. This page does the sum with the table’s own numbers, and says which date they are from: 4 April 2026.
The short version
A household bill is your kWh times a published rate. The rates and the yearly limit are dated on this page.
- The rates: since 4 April 2026 a household on a single-time meter pays 3.2380 TL per kWh up to 8 kWh a day and 4.8570 TL above that, taxes included.
- Three-time meter: day 4.9204, peak 6.9958, night 3.2607 TL per kWh, taxes included.
- The yearly limit: for 2026, the regulator set a limit of 4,000 kWh a year for a household. A household over it, without a supplier agreement, moves to the last-resort price, a dearer price that follows the wholesale market (explained below).
- The parts of a bill: energy, distribution, consumption tax and VAT. The tariff table prints the first two.
- To check a bill: use EPDK’s bill calculator, and ask your company for its working with the Turkish line the meter below writes.
Your bill, glass by glass
A billing period is the stretch between two meter readings. The regulator says the distribution company reads each meter every 25 to 35 days, so the tool’s day slider runs from 25 to 35. Enter the kWh and the days, and read the bill off the steps.
The meter
Your reading, glass by glass
Each glass is one day of the billing period. The meter fills every glass with your average day. Up to 8 kWh a day the tariff’s lower band applies, above it the higher band. Set the kWh and the days, and the steps show the bill.
777.13 TL
taxes included · tariff of 4 April 2026
On average 3.2380 TL per kWh
- Lower band: up to 8 kWh a day
- Higher band: above 8 kWh a day
- 1Average a day240 kWh ÷ 30 days8.00 kWh a day
- 2Price of one kWh, lower band(0.494065 energy + 2.424900 distribution + 0.024703 consumption tax) × 1.10 VAT3.238035 TL
- 3Cost, lower band240 kWh × 3.238035777.13 TL
Say it to your electricity company
Merhaba, 30 günlük dönemde 240 kWh tükettim. Tek zamanlı mesken tarifesinde (4 Nisan 2026 tarifesi) vergiler dahil yaklaşık 777,13 TL hesaplıyorum. Faturamdaki birim fiyatları ve hesap dökümünü paylaşır mısınız?
Hello, I used 240 kWh in a 30-day period. On the single-time household tariff (4 April 2026) I work out about 777.13 TL, taxes included. Could you share the unit prices and the working behind my bill?
Every line is rounded to the kuruş (one hundredth of a lira). The tool works with the tariff of 4 April 2026 only, so use it for a billing period that starts after that date. The start state, 240 kWh in 30 days, is a worked example.
What the figure is. It is an estimate worked from the published household tariff, with the consumption tax and VAT. Other lines on a bill are not in it. For a billing period that crosses a tariff change, see the day rule below.
Where the kWh come from
The distribution company reads the meter. A kWh is the energy a 1,000-watt heater uses in one hour. The bill counts the kWh between two readings and divides them by the days between the same two readings. That average a day decides how many kWh fall in the lower band.
Sayaç okuma tarihlerimi görebilir miyim?May I see my meter reading dates?
Four parts of a bill, and who sets each
A household bill adds four parts. The first two are in EPDK’s tariff table, in kuruş per kWh (100 kuruş are one lira) and without taxes.
- Energy
- The cost of the electricity itself. The regulator sets it in the tariff table. For a household it has a lower and a higher band, or three prices by time of day. On a single-time meter the lower band is 0.494065 TL per kWh and the higher band 1.895808 TL.
- Distribution
- The fee for carrying power through the local grid to your meter. It is one price for every kWh: 2.4249 TL. The regulator sets it in the same table.
- Consumption tax
- A municipal tax. It is worked out on the energy part only, at 5% for households. Two electricity companies, CK Boğaziçi and Enerjisa, state the rate on their own pages, and Enerjisa says the distribution charge is left out of its base. The meter’s steps show it as its own line.
- VAT
- 10% of the total that already holds the first three parts, the consumption tax included. That is how Enerjisa’s form words it. The Revenue Administration’s rate list puts electricity delivered to households in its 10% group, and CK Boğaziçi gives 10% for households too.
The distribution company reads the meter and carries the power. The supplier sells it. Households that have not chosen a supplier buy from the supply company of their area at the tariff in this table.
The household rates, dated 4 April 2026
EPDK’s tariff table is dated 4 April 2026. It prints the rates in kuruş, without taxes. This page converts them to lira and adds the taxes the way the steps above show. The figures are for a household on the low-voltage network, the usual home connection.
On a single-time meter the first 8 kWh of each day count at the lower band. The rest count at the higher band. The split is made on the average day of the billing period, as the tool shows. A three-time meter has no bands: it has three prices by hour.
| Meter | Band or hours | Energy | Distribution | Consumption tax | VAT | Price per kWh |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single-time | Lower band: up to 8 kWh a day | 0.4941 | 2.4249 | 0.0247 | 0.2944 | 3.2380 |
| Single-time | Higher band: above 8 kWh a day | 1.8958 | 2.4249 | 0.0948 | 0.4415 | 4.8570 |
| Three-time | Day: 06:00–17:00 | 1.9506 | 2.4249 | 0.0975 | 0.4473 | 4.9204 |
| Three-time | Peak: 17:00–22:00 | 3.7476 | 2.4249 | 0.1874 | 0.6360 | 6.9958 |
| Three-time | Night: 22:00–06:00 | 0.5137 | 2.4249 | 0.0257 | 0.2964 | 3.2607 |
A three-time meter charges by the hour. The clock shows the three prices. The hours depend on the meter: an older meter whose clock was never moved to permanent summer time uses winter hours from the last Sunday of October to the last Sunday of March.
The tariff clock
What a kWh costs at each hour
A three-time meter splits the day into three prices. Pick the meter’s hours, then move the hand to an hour of the day.
At 19:00 one kWh costs 6.9958 TL (Peak).
Day 06:00–17:00 · peak 17:00–22:00 · night 22:00–06:00
Say it to your electricity company
Merhaba, sayacımın saati sürekli yaz saatine göre güncellendi mi? Çok zamanlı tarifede gündüz, puant ve gece hangi saat aralıklarında uygulanıyor?
Hello, has my meter’s clock been set to permanent summer time? In the three-time tariff, which hours count as day, peak and night?
Sayacım çok zamanlı mı?Is my meter a three-time meter?
Çok zamanlı tarifeye geçebilir miyim?Can I move to the three-time tariff?
The yearly limit, and what changes above it
The regulator sets a yearly limit for households. For 2026 it is 4,000 kWh a year. In 2025 it was 5,000. Below the limit a household pays the national tariff above. Above it, a household that has no supplier agreement moves to the last-resort price. The limit is a total for the calendar year, not a monthly cap.
The year ring
How close you are to the limit
The outer ring is the twelve months. The inner ring fills as the year’s kWh grow, and closes at the household limit of 4,000 kWh. Enter the kWh and the month of the latest meter reading. If the limit is reached, the ring counts three months on to the day the last-resort price would start.
3,100 kWh is 78% of the yearly limit of 4,000 kWh. 900 kWh to go.
Say it to your electricity company
Merhaba, 2026 yılında şu ana kadar 3.100 kWh tükettim. Yıllık sınırın (4.000 kWh) ne kadarını kullandım ve hangi tarifeye tabiyim?
Hello, so far in 2026 I have used 3,100 kWh. How much of the yearly limit (4,000 kWh) have I used, and which tariff applies to me?
| Meter reading or bill dated | Last-resort price starts |
|---|---|
| 25 October 2025 | 1 January 2026 |
| 30 December 2025 | 1 March 2026 |
| 2 June 2026 | 1 September 2026 |
| 31 July 2026 | 1 October 2026 |
The dark cell is the month of the reading. The hatched cells are the two months in between. The green cell is the month the last-resort price starts.
- What counts
- The kWh used in the current calendar year or in the year before. Passing the limit in either year is enough.
- When it starts
- On the first day of the third calendar month after the month in which the limit was reached.
- What changes
- Only the energy part of the price. It follows the average daily price on the wholesale electricity market during the billing period, plus the average cost of the renewable-energy support scheme, times 1.05 for households. It cannot fall below the higher band. The distribution charge and the tax rates stay as they were.
- Who is affected
- The regulator says about 2.5 million of 43 million household subscribers, around 6%.
- Going back
- A household that stays under the next year’s limit goes back to the national tariff, with no loss of service.
- Outside the limit
- The regulator’s questions and answers list places of worship, associations, families of martyrs and war veterans, village drinking water, disaster-shelter centres and people who depend on life-support machines.
A household that uses more than 500 kWh a year may sign an agreement with a licensed supplier instead. EPDK publishes the list of licensed suppliers on its page for household customers.
Yıllık tüketimim ne kadar?How much have I used this year?
Son kaynak tedarik tarifesine ne zaman geçeceğim?When will I move to the last-resort tariff?
When a bill spans a tariff change, the day rule
Tariffs change on a set date, and a billing period can run across it. The regulator’s rule: when a price changes inside a billing period and daily use was not measured, the bill assumes the same use every day. A meter reading counts at the middle of its day. Each part of the period is then priced at the tariff that applied to it.
The regulator’s own example
Readings on 16 December 2021 and 17 January 2022 make a period of 32 days: 15.5 days at the old tariff and 16.5 days at the new one. For 170 kWh, the first 160 kWh (5 kWh a day, the band at that time) are priced as the old price × 15.5 ÷ 32 + the new lower-band price × 16.5 ÷ 32. The other 10 kWh use the old price and the new higher-band price in the same way.
So the unit price on such a bill can sit between the two tariffs’ prices. The regulator says that does not mean the price is wrong. Its tariff page names two recent changes: 5 April 2025 and 4 April 2026.
Faturamdaki dönem tarife değişikliğini kapsıyor mu?Does my billing period cross a tariff change?
Checking a bill, and what to ask
The regulator says a final bill can be checked with the bill calculator on its site. Use it with the two reading dates, the kWh and the meter type. Entering the right dates matters.
Four things beside the calculator
The date of the previous reading. The date of the latest reading. The kWh between them. Whether the meter is single-time or three-time. With these, work the bill in the meter above and in the calculator. If the figures differ, ask your company for the unit prices and the working.
Hesap dökümünü paylaşır mısınız?Could you share the working?
Faturamdaki birim fiyat hangi tarifeye göre?Which tariff is the unit price on my bill from?
Quick answers, and the sources
How much is a kWh for a household?
Since 4 April 2026: 3.2380 TL on a single-time meter up to 8 kWh a day and 4.8570 TL above that. On a three-time meter: day 4.9204, peak 6.9958 and night 3.2607 TL. Taxes are included.
Is there a monthly limit?
The regulator’s limit is a yearly total: 4,000 kWh in 2026. The 8 kWh a day figure is not a limit. It only decides which band the kWh fall in.
What happens above the yearly limit?
A household without a supplier agreement moves to the last-resort price from the first day of the third calendar month after the month the limit was reached. Only the energy part changes.
Can a household choose a supplier?
Above 500 kWh a year it may sign an agreement with a licensed supplier. The regulator publishes the list.
What does the tool not include?
Only the parts the tariff table prints, plus the two taxes. Other lines on a bill are not in it.
What about petrol and diesel?
Turkpidya’s fuel prices page has regional petrol and diesel prices.
Every figure on this page is taken from the page named beside it. They were checked on 21 October 2026.
- What the figures are: the regulator’s own numbers, dated, and the arithmetic shown step by step.
- What they are not: a quote or advice. Your bill can differ if your period crosses a change date or carries other lines. A tariff can change on any date.
- Turkish lines: plain phrases to send to your electricity company. They are not quotes from any page.
Read the sources
- 4 Nisan 2026 Tarihinden İtibaren Geçerli Vergiler Hariç Elektrik Tarifeleri (the tariff table, workbook) — Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EPDK), checked 21 October 2026
- Kurul Kararı, Karar No: 13912, 30/10/2025 (the yearly consumption amounts and the coefficient for 2026) — Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EPDK), checked 21 October 2026
- Son Kaynak Tedarik Tarifesinin Düzenlenmesi Hakkında Tebliğ (the last-resort tariff rules) — Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EPDK), checked 21 October 2026
- Son Kaynak Tedarik Tarifesi (SKTT) İle İlgili Bilinmesi Gerekenler (questions and answers on the last-resort tariff) — Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EPDK), checked 21 October 2026
- Mesken Abonesi Olarak Serbest Tüketici Olmak (households and the right to choose a supplier) — Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EPDK), checked 21 October 2026
- Kademeli Tarife ve Kıst Uygulaması Hakkında Duyuru (notice of 18.01.2022) — Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EPDK), checked 21 October 2026
- Elektrik Fatura Hesaplama (the bill calculator) — Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EPDK), checked 21 October 2026
- Güncel KDV Oranları (the VAT rate list; item 34 of list II: electricity delivered to households and farm irrigation) — Revenue Administration (GİB), checked 21 October 2026
- 45 Soruda Elektrik Tüketicisi Olmak (questions and answers: the taxes on the bill) — CK Boğaziçi Elektrik, an electricity company, checked 21 October 2026
“Elektrik Tüketim Vergisi (BTV): … geri kalan abonelerde aktif enerji bedelinin yüzde 5’i oranında, KDV: … mesken ve tarımsal sulama abonelerinde enerji bedelinin yüzde 10’u” - İkili Anlaşma Ön Bilgilendirme Formu (a supplier’s information form that lists the charges on the bill) — Enerjisa Başkent Elektrik Perakende Satış, an electricity company, checked 21 October 2026
“Tüketim Vergisi: İletim, dağıtım ve perakende satış hizmetlerine ilişkin bedeller hariç olmak üzere, elektrik enerjisi satış bedelinin meskenlerde … %5’i … KDV: Vergi dahil toplam bedele …” - Şeffaf Fatura (the bill explained: the base of the consumption tax and of VAT) — CK Boğaziçi Elektrik, an electricity company, checked 21 October 2026
