DR published an interactive district heating tool on November 11, 2026, showing that annual heating costs in Denmark differ by more than 30,000 kroner depending on which plant supplies an address.
Danish broadcaster DR reported on Wednesday morning that there is a large gap in what district heating customers pay to turn up the heat in winter. In its piece Dyrt eller billigt, se prisen på din fjernvarme her, DR lets readers type in a postcode and see whether their price is high or low.
Per DR, the price of fjernvarme, the Danish term for district heating, varies from heating plant to heating plant. The annual difference between the cheapest and the most expensive supply areas exceeds 30,000 kroner, according to the figures DR used.
Where the numbers come from
DR states that the figures are the newest available from Forsyningstilsynet, the Danish Utility Regulator. The regulator is the public authority that collects and publishes consumer price statistics for district heating across the country.
According to Forsyningstilsynet, the price statistics covering January 2026 were published on November 9, 2026, two days before DR’s overview. The regulator notes that the statistics are released twice a year and include downloadable data sorted by price and by heating company.
As stated by Forsyningstilsynet, the new release was expanded compared with earlier editions. It now contains additional data, visualisations and calculations alongside the underlying price figures.
No other Danish outlet coverage of DR’s overview had been verified at the time of writing. The comparison itself concerns household district heating costs, not electricity or gas.
What district heating prices mean for internationals renting or buying a home
District heating is supplied by local plants, and DR’s tool works by postcode, so the price follows the address rather than a supplier the household picks. That makes the cost of heating a local question in Denmark, in contrast to electricity, where consumers choose a trader.
For internationals comparing apartments or houses in different towns, the figures published by Forsyningstilsynet mean the heating bill can differ by thousands of kroner a year for an otherwise similar home. The regulator’s dataset can be downloaded and sorted by heating company, which allows a check of a specific supply area.
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Two limits are worth keeping in mind. The published prices reflect the situation as of January 2026, and Forsyningstilsynet updates the statistics only twice a year, so a given plant’s tariff may have changed since. DR’s overview also shows the price level for a supply area, not the bill for an individual home, which depends on how much heat a household uses.
Heating is one of the larger recurring items in a Danish household budget, and it sits alongside rent, electricity and water in the overall cost of living in Denmark. Tenants in Denmark often pay for heat through a varmeregnskab, a heating account settled by the landlord, which means the plant’s price still reaches the renter indirectly.
DR’s tool is in Danish, but it requires only a postcode, so it can be used without reading the surrounding article. The underlying figures from Forsyningstilsynet are available on the regulator’s own website for anyone who wants to see the full list of heating companies.
