{"id":452145,"date":"2026-05-05T15:42:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/05\/05\/bollette-del-gas-nellue-su-del-74-per-cento-nella-seconda-meta-del-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T19:11:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:11:04","slug":"gas-bills-in-the-eu-rose-by-7-4-per-cent-in-the-second-half-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/05\/05\/gas-bills-in-the-eu-rose-by-7-4-per-cent-in-the-second-half-of-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas bills in the EU rose by 7.4 per cent in the second half of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 In the second half of 2025, gas bills paid by European households averaged 12.28 euros per 100 kilowatt-hours (kWh)<\/strong>, marking a 7.4 per cent increase<\/strong> compared to the 11.43 euros recorded in the first half of last year. The price of electricity<\/strong>, on the other hand, followed a more stable trend,\u00a0with\u00a0the average price in the last six months of 2025 at \u20ac28.96<\/strong>, a\u00a0slight 0.5 per cent<\/strong>\u00a0increase from the \u20ac28.79 paid by households in<\/span>\u00a0the first half of the year.\u00a0These figures were revealed by\u00a0<\/span>Eurostat<\/strong>, the European Union\u2019s statistical office, in its regular half-yearly report on\u00a0<\/span>prices of gas <\/a>and<\/span> electricity <\/a>across the Old Continent.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gas prices: price rises for households and reductions for businesses<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The \u20ac12.28 paid in the second half of 2025 represents the second-highest gas price recorded in the last ten years, surpassed only by the \u20ac12.44 per 100 kWh recorded in the second half of 2024<\/strong>. Compared to two years ago, however, in 2025 the rise in bills between the first and second half of the year has fallen significantly<\/strong> (a phenomenon which Eurostat nevertheless describes as “normal” due to the increased use of heating systems during the winter months): in 2024, price growth stood at 12.6 per cent<\/strong> quarter-on-quarter, a figure approximately 5 percentage points lower than that of the previous year.<\/p>\n

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Today\u2019s report also highlights \u201csignificant disparities\u201d in the data for individual Member States<\/strong>. In absolute terms, the highest bills were paid by citizens in Sweden, with an average tariff of \u20ac20.92<\/strong> per 100 kWh, followed by those in the Netherlands (\u20ac17.19)<\/strong> and Italy (\u20ac14.81)<\/strong>. The lowest prices, however, were recorded on the Eastern flank and in the Balkans<\/strong>: the “top 3”\u00a0are\u00a0Hungary (\u20ac3.40)<\/strong>, Croatia (\u20ac5.43)<\/strong> and Romania (\u20ac5.66)<\/strong>. The ranking, however, changes when one takes into account each country’s average income and the impact of a given price level on different levels of wealth. Applying the principle of purchasing power parity (PPP)<\/strong>, Sweden<\/strong> remains at the top of the ranking of countries\u00a0with the most expensive gas\u00a0(\u20ac17.16)<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/span>followed by Portugal (\u20ac17.04)<\/strong>, with Italy (\u20ac15.48)<\/strong> still behind. In contrast, those paying the least were the Hungarians (\u20ac4.67)<\/strong>, the Luxembourgers (\u20ac6.75)<\/strong>, and the Slovaks (\u20ac7.58)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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As for changes compared with the second half of 2024, energy bills rose in 11 EU countries, fell in 10 and remained stable in 2<\/strong>. The largest increases were seen in Luxembourg (+21.7 per cent), Croatia (+19.1 per cent), and Lithuania (+14.8 per cent)<\/strong>, while the most significant reductions were recorded in the Czech Republic (-9.8 per cent), Italy (-6.6 per cent) and Latvia (-6.1 per cent)<\/strong>. These differences depend not only on the cost of gas itself\u00a0but also on the\u00a0level of taxes<\/strong>\u00a0and other charges applied to bills under each country\u2019s tax regime<\/span>. It is no coincidence that two of the countries with the highest tariffs also have the highest percentages of taxes on the final price: the Netherlands (51.8 per cent<\/strong> compared to an EU average of 31 per cent) and Sweden (35.9 per cent)<\/strong>, with Denmark<\/strong> lying between them (48.9 per cent)<\/strong>. More \u2018lenient\u2019 taxation is found, on the other hand, in Croatia (4.8 per cent)<\/strong>, Greece (8.1 per cent)<\/strong> and Belgium (16.5 per cent)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Finally, Eurostat analyses the proportion of bills paid by so-called non-domestic users<\/strong>, i.e., businesses and other large consumers whose annual gas consumption ranges from 10,000 to 100,000 gigajoules. In this market segment, gas prices followed an opposite trend during 2025: in the second half of the year, the average price was \u20ac6.05 per 100 kWh, a decrease of 8.3 per cent compared to the first half of the year (\u20ac6.60)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Looking at the data for individual countries, energy bills paid by businesses rose in only four countries (with the largest increases recorded in Lithuania, the Netherlands, and Romania), while they fell in the remaining 16 countries for which data is available (with the Czech Republic and Hungary leading the way).<\/p>\n

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