{"id":98597,"date":"2026-05-04T04:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T04:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.timberindustrynews.com\/?p=98597"},"modified":"2026-05-11T11:43:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T11:43:40","slug":"central-europe-pellet-prices-ease-after-winter-but-stay-elevated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timberindustrynews.com\/ro\/central-europe-pellet-prices-ease-after-winter-but-stay-elevated\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Europe pellet prices ease after winter, but stay elevated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"78\" data-end=\"453\"><strong><!--more--><\/strong>Pellet prices across Central Europe are moving down after winter, but they are not returning to pre-crisis levels. The market has supply, demand has softened, and yet prices are still holding in a tighter band than before.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"455\" data-end=\"997\">In Germany, the benchmark price published by the German Pellet Institute (DEPI) stood at \u20ac405.11\/t in April for a standard 6-tonne bulk delivery. That figure has edged lower month-on-month, but the underlying range is broader. Southern Germany is still around \u20ac421.43\/t, northern and eastern regions near \u20ac422.85\/t, and central Germany was about \u20ac412.51\/t in March. Smaller deliveries and longer transport distances continue to push quotes above \u20ac430\/t, while bagged pellets typically land between \u20ac440 and \u20ac480\/t.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"999\" data-end=\"1333\">Germany\u2019s supply base has not tightened. Production reached about 940,000 tonnes in Q1 2026, almost unchanged from a year earlier. What shifted was consumption. A longer heating season absorbed more volume domestically and reduced exports to 7.7% of output. That change, not a shortage, explains the winter firmness in prices.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1603\" data-end=\"1964\">In Austria, the same pattern holds. Bulk deliveries for household volumes (6 tonnes) are typically quoted around \u20ac395\u2013410\/t, while bagged pellets for self-collection move between \u20ac420 and \u20ac460\/t. Once delivery is included, costs rise further, with an average surcharge of about \u20ac51.80 per load. The spread between bulk and retail remains intact.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1966\" data-end=\"2262\">In Poland, the gap between wholesale and retail is wider. Bulk-equivalent levels sit around PLN 1,900\u20132,000\/t (\u20ac420\u2013450\/t), while bagged pellets in retail channels still reach PLN 2,400\u20132,600\/t (\u20ac530\u2013580\/t). Local availability and distribution costs continue to drive that difference.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2264\" data-end=\"2513\">In Czechia, offers range from about CZK 7,800\/t (\u20ac315\/t) at the low end to CZK 11,800\/t (\u20ac475\/t) for delivered or higher-grade product. Most residential buyers end up in the middle of that range once transport and packaging are included.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2515\" data-end=\"2664\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The market has settled, but not reset. Prices across Central Europe are clustering again, yet they are clustering at a higher level than before 2022.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5204,4714],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-news","category-wood-industry-prices","topic-price-analysis-and-info","topic-wood-energy","topic-wood-products","area-europe","area-global"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Central Europe pellet prices ease after winter, but stay elevated - Timber Industry News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timberindustrynews.com\/ro\/central-europe-pellet-prices-ease-after-winter-but-stay-elevated\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ro_RO\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Central Europe pellet prices ease after winter, but stay elevated - 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