ENSE
Published 5 November 2026, 03:36
ENSE — Entidade Nacional para o Setor Energético (National Agency for the Energy Sector)
A state agency that oversees strategic reserves of oil and oil products and keeps order in the fuel market. Ordinary people mainly notice it for one thing: it publishes its own "reference" price per litre (preço de referência), which matches neither the ERSE calculated price nor the DGEG price after discounts.
Where you come across it. Discussions of how much a litre of petrol or diesel "really" ought to cost.
There are three official prices per litre in the country, and they mean different things: ENSE's is a reference price, ERSE's is a calculated "fair" price before taxes, and DGEG's is what people actually pay at the pump after discounts. In September 2026 the energy minister instructed ERSE to bring them into line so that people would not be confused.
Official website: ense-epe.pt