Your bill does not show one price but six, and each of them gets two more fees, excise duty and VAT on top. Here is how that adds up to the price you actually pay — and what an electric car in the garage changes.
Translated from Serbian. Prices, quotes from company websites and data are given in English for convenience; where the exact wording matters, the Serbian original applies.
The regulated price has applied since 01.10.2025 and has three zones and two tariffs. Added to the regulated price are the incentive fee for privileged producers (0,801 RSD/kWh) and the energy efficiency fee (0,015 RSD/kWh), then excise duty of 7,5 % and finally VAT of 20 %. That is why the price you pay is about 40 % higher than the one in the price list.
For charging a car at home two things matter: the tariff (at night electricity is three to four times cheaper) and the zone (consumption above the threshold is charged at a higher price). A calculator that uses your kilometres and tariff is on the cost calculator page.
For a 30-day billing period, the first 350 kWh fall into the green zone, consumption up to 1.200 kWh into the blue zone, and the rest into the red zone; the thresholds are adjusted in proportion to the number of days in the period. As of 01.10.2025 the upper limit of the blue zone has been lowered from 1.600 to 1.200 kWh, along with an average price increase of 6,6 %.
The zones are not a “discount for the thrifty” but steps: the first 350 kWh are always charged at the lowest price, the next ones up to 1.200 kWh at the blue price, and only what is above that at the red price. A household that uses 500 kWh a month does not pay for all of it at the blue price — it pays for 350 kWh at the green price and for 150 kWh at the blue price.
| Zone | Consumption | High tariff (VT): price list / with fees and taxes | Low tariff (NT): price list / with fees and taxes | Single tariff |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Green zone | up to 350 kWh a month | 9,6136 / 13,45 | 2,4034 / 4,15 | 8,41 / 11,90 |
| Blue zone | 351–1.200 kWh a month | 14,4203 / 19,65 | 3,6051 / 5,70 | 12,62 / 17,33 |
| Red zone | over 1.200 kWh a month | 28,8407 / 38,26 | 7,2102 / 10,35 | 25,24 / 33,61 |
Price-list prices exclude excise duty and VAT and also include network access; the prices in bold include all fees, excise duty and VAT — that is what you pay per kilowatt-hour. EPS does not publish the prices for single-tariff metering on its prices page (the decision is a scanned document), so they are taken from a secondary source and marked as such.
Besides the kilowatt-hours, there is also billed power: 60,8947 RSD per kilowatt of approved (contracted) power per month, or 78,55 RSD/kW with excise duty and VAT. A household with the usual approved power of 17,25 kW (3×25 A) pays about 1.355 RSD a month for this item, regardless of how much electricity it has used. An 11 kW home charger does not by itself change this item as long as the approved power stays the same.
The low tariff lasts eight consecutive hours every day, regardless of summer or winter time, weekends, non-working days and public holidays. Only households with a dual-tariff meter use it.
| Region | Low tariff |
|---|---|
| Belgrade | from 24.00 to 8.00 |
| Vojvodina | from 23.00 to 7.00 |
| central Serbia | from 22.00 to 6.00 |
For a car this means one simple thing: charging should start when the low tariff begins in your region, not “when you get home”. Every charger and every car has a timer; the difference between VT and NT in the blue zone is 13,95 RSD per kilowatt-hour, or about 3.261 RSD a month for 234 kWh.
For 1.250 km a month and consumption of 17 kWh/100 km, a car needs about 212 kWh, and with charging losses (about 10 %) about 234 kWh a month comes out of the wall. At the night tariff that is 971 RSD in the green zone, 1.333 RSD in the blue zone and 2.420 RSD in the red zone. At the high tariff you would pay 4.594 RSD for the same kilowatt-hours (blue zone).
What is usually overlooked: those 234 kWh move the whole household into the next zone. A household that is otherwise in the green zone (up to 350 kWh) moves into the blue zone with a car, so the electricity for everything else above the threshold also costs more. If charging in a building runs through the shared meter, the same happens to the building — which is why the guide on who pays for the electricity suggests a separate meter and billing by actual consumption.
For comparison: 100 km on electricity at the night tariff costs about 107 RSD (blue zone), while the same distance on petrol, at 207 RSD/l and consumption of 6,5 l/100 km, costs about 1.346 RSD.
The EPS bill shows whether the meter is single- or dual-tariff and how many kilowatt-hours fell into which zone. You can view your bills on the EPS portal (portal.eps.rs) and get an indicative calculation at kalkulator.eps.rs. If you have a single-tariff meter and plan to charge at home, you request a replacement with a dual-tariff meter from Elektrodistribucija Srbije (the grid operator), and it usually pays for itself within the first few months.
Prices are regulated and change by decision of EPS; the fees and excise duty change by Government decisions. If you see a newer price list, let us know via the corrections page.
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