Electricity tariffs in Hungary: A1, A2, H and the new D tariff

A cheap period on Hungary’s wholesale chart is not automatically a cheap period on your electricity bill. Check the tariff on your bill first: its time bands, allowance and metering rules determine whether moving an appliance’s use can help.

The new D tariff: applications are open, supply starts later

Checked 13 September 2026. MVM Next announced that applications opened on 1 September 2026, with the D tariff starting no earlier than 1 January 2027. Applying is not the same as having an active dynamic contract today. The subsidised allowance remains at the applicable A1 rate; the excess uses a market-linked price. MVM: September announcement.

This is an option to assess, not a recommendation to switch. Ask for the confirmed start date and compare your own consumption pattern, including expensive evenings and winter days. A low summer average alone cannot tell you which arrangement is better for your household.

A1, A2, B and H are not interchangeable

For A2, MVM lists lower-rate working-day hours of 22:00–06:00 in standard time, changing to 23:00–07:00 in daylight-saving time; non-working days also include daytime in the lower-rate band. Use Europe/Budapest local time and the applicable working-day calendar, not a simple Monday-to-Friday assumption. MVM: household tariffs.

The H tariff is for qualifying equipment such as heat pumps, not every electric heater. MVM identifies 15 October–15 April as its heating season; outside it, the separate meter follows daytime billing. Ask the distributor to confirm your installation’s eligibility before buying equipment. MVM: H tariff eligibility.

The allowance is not a flat 210 kWh every month

MVM describes a 2523 kWh/year discounted allowance, separately for the ordinary and controlled measuring points, in an allowance year running 1 August–31 July. Billing allocates it by days; unused allowance does not carry into the next allowance year. Check the measuring point and billing period, not just the address or a rounded monthly figure. MVM: allowance FAQ.

The ordinary above-allowance price called lakossági piaci ár is not the live HUPX price. MVM’s bill explanation distinguishes it from wholesale prices and identifies it as inclusive of network charges and 27% VAT. Do not add those items again to that inclusive figure. Eligible H heating-season consumption is not restricted by the ordinary 2523 kWh cap; outside the season, the allowance applies. MVM: bill and allowance explanation.

For an existing A1 household, timing and total consumption are separate questions. Moving a task between equal-rate hours leaves the charge unchanged; actually reducing consumption can change the amount billed. Do not infer a saving from the chart without checking which contractual price changes.

D eligibility and the price hidden behind the chart

D requires an eligible universal-service A1 measuring point, remote-readable metering and monthly interval settlement. Prepayment and net-settled household generation are among the exclusions. Other separately metered tariffs continue separately. MVM checks eligibility; review the full list and any metering costs. Leaving D within the first 12 months can prevent rejoining at the same supply point for the following 12 months. MVM: D conditions.

MVM’s formula uses quarter-hourly HUPX DAM prices, converted with the MNB daily HUF/EUR rate, plus a trading fee. The whole month’s measured consumption weights the flexible energy price; that price applies to the above-allowance quantity. The allowance portion keeps its A1 energy price. Network charges and taxes remain additional. MVM: detailed D calculation.

The fee notice published 10 September 2026 lists 13.70 HUF/kWh excluding VAT. It can change, including before service starts; recheck the notice and contract rather than treating it as a guaranteed January fee. MVM: trading-fee notice.

Our website’s HUF display uses ECB reference-rate conversion, not MVM’s MNB settlement method. It remains a wholesale illustration, not a D invoice. Likewise, a negative wholesale price does not by itself mean free delivered electricity after fees and other bill components.

Worked example: why shifting savings need an allowance adjustment

This is a fictional energy-only month, not a current offer or bill forecast. Assume 600 kWh total, a simplified 210 kWh allowance and a fictional subsidised energy rate of 5 HUF/kWh. Network charges, VAT and other bill items are excluded. The 210 kWh is an example input, not the actual allowance for every month.

For transparent arithmetic, group the intervals into two invented price levels, already converted to forints: 400 kWh at 20 HUF/kWh and 200 kWh at 80 HUF/kWh. Their consumption-weighted exchange price is 40 HUF/kWh. Adding the currently published 13.70 fee gives 53.70 HUF/kWh for the 390 kWh above the example allowance.

Move 60 kWh from the 80-price intervals to the 20-price intervals without changing total consumption. The new weighted exchange price is (460 × 20 + 140 × 80) ÷ 600 = 34 HUF/kWh. With the fee it becomes 47.70; the excess costs 390 × 47.70 = 18,603 HUF.

The energy-component saving is 2,340 HUF, not 60 × 60 = 3,600 HUF. In this example, the weighted-price reduction affects only 390 of the 600 kWh: 3,600 × 390 ÷ 600 = 2,340. This is our illustration of the published calculation, not guaranteed bill savings. Unchanged network charges do not disappear; moving use must also remain safe and practical.

Use the comparison tool for a component, not an automatic D bill

To reproduce the above-allowance energy component, select HUF in our comparison tool. Enter consumption 390, reference price 40, offer A markup 13.70, multiplier 1, monthly fee 0, shifted consumption 0, and shared costs 0. The result is 20,943 HUF. Change only the reference price to 34: it becomes 18,603 HUF. Add the illustrative allowance cost of 1,050 separately to recover the table totals.

For an arithmetic cross-check, a fixed comparison rate of 53.70 with fee 0 gives the same baseline energy component. It is not a verified competing offer. A hypothetical additional monthly charge of 3,000 HUF would exceed the 2,340 energy benefit. Never count a fee twice if it is already included.

The tool does not automatically calculate the Hungarian allowance, import your quarter-hour profile or reproduce D settlement, invoice rounding and tax rules. Do not enter 600 kWh and claim that all of it gets the flexible price. Its annualised output is also not a forecast of future HUPX prices, exchange rates or heating use.

Before applying: resolve the contract, meter and timing

Start with your actual supplier contract and network operator, not a list of familiar company logos. This guide examines MVM Next’s household arrangements; it is not a complete supplier ranking. We have not verified a comparable competing household dynamic offer here, and business-only quotations should not be relabelled as household products.

• Download your own interval consumption and check whether it includes estimates or missing readings.
• Confirm the exact tariff, eligibility, installation cost and effective start date in writing.
• Ask how missing readings, price corrections, currency conversion and fee changes will be handled.
• Compare an expensive-price scenario as well as a favourable one, on the same energy-only or all-in basis.
• Read notice, exit and return conditions before changing a solar settlement arrangement or existing tariff.
• After activation, compare the first bill with the accepted terms and metering data.

An A2 household needs the correct timetable; a heat-pump household needs the right circuit and eligibility checks; a future D customer needs a consumption-weighted comparison. Those are different decisions, even though all three can start from the same price chart.