The petrol station data blackout starts today.

The data blackout on petrol stations publishing their recommended retail price (RRP) has begun, we’ll be back online January 1st with – fingers crossed – better data!

The ruling from Erhvervsministeriet (Ministry of Business and Industry: Home) prohibits petrol and diesel companies from publishing recommended prices (RRP) for petrol, diesel and AdBlue products; electric charging seems to be unaffected.

The intention is to encourage competition between individual petrol stations as it has been too easy for petrol and diesel companies to monitor and adjust each other’s pump prices to follow published recommended prices but this data blackout has the unintended consequence of impacting all public websites and apps that also monitor and share recommended prices with motorists; like us, fuelfinder.dk and benzinpriser.dk!

Until January 1st we’re in a bit of a bind…

What would we like to see?

As a retail fuel price monitoring platform we’d love to know in real-time the actual pump price at all petrol stations, not just the recommended retail price that most stations use. OIL! and Go’on do this with published daily prices, will the others follow?

With real-time retail fuel price data we can confidently show pump prises at all petrol stations in Denmark, whether it’s your local Q8 and Circle K in Brabrand or out on the motorway to Copenhagen or Hamburg. We can also identify trends of the cheapest and most expensive petrol stations to help motorists save at the pump.

Stay tuned for more updates during this data blackout month as more information is published by Erhvervsministeriet and Konkurrence- og Forbrugerstyrelsen.