The cost of the bills of light and gas will return to rise. In fact, the forecasts for 2025 indicate a new, not negligible, increase in prices, destined to weigh on the pockets of citizens. To confirm this scenario are the data provided by Assoutenti and the analysis of market operators, which draw a picture of increases on a national scale.
The prices of the bills of light and gas increase
The first increase in alarm came from Arera, the Energy Regulation Authority, Networks and Environment, which ordered a slight rise in gas rates for vulnerable customers. A measure that has already involved a Increase in spending in 2025 of 4.2% compared to the same period of 2024 for a type type family.
To provide a concrete estimate of this increase is Assoutenti, which underlines how the current rates are higher Compared to those in force in the same period last year, when the price of the gas was 103.6 euro cents per cubic meter. Considering an annual consumption of 1,100 cubic meters, the expense aggravation translates into +48 euros per year per family.
An increase that, although not yet exaggerated, fits into a trend growing that worries consumers and protection associations. As explained by the president of Assoutenti, Gabriele Melluso, “the stability of gas prices on the markets is a physiological situation linked to the lower question in Europe in view of the summer period. The real test will be After the summerwhen the race for stocks by the various countries and the price of the gas could begin could reach New peakswith direct effects on the bills of Italians “.
Forecasts for 2025: significant increases for light and gas in autumn
If the current data are already a reason for concern for the increases in the bills, the Forecast for 2025 they are even more alarming, according to what emerges from an elaborate analysis using estimates until December of the European Energy Exchange (EEX).
The study takes into consideration a type typeThat is, an average Italian family with annual consumption of about 2,700 kWh of electricity (equivalent, for example, to a home with frequent use of appliances and electric heating) and 1,400 standard cubic meters (SMC) of gas, typical of a house heated to gas and with regular use for kitchen and hot water.
Well, according to the analysis, a growth of 30% of the average price of the electricity and also that of the gas should increase even more, with a leap by 37%.
What does all this mean in practical terms? If these increases materialized, even keeping the consumption of families and economic conditions unchanged (i.e. taxes, system charges and network costs), there would be a net increase in the final amount in the bill. Not only for those who consume a lot, but also for those who keep on levels considered “medium”.
What are the consequences?
The factors behind these increases are manifold and intertwine between geopolitical, climatic and economic dynamics. In addition, there is to be considered the end of the summer truce. As reported by Assoutenti, the summer represents a phase of relative calm for gas prices which, even if greater than last year, is foreseen do not increase dramatically thanks to the lesser question. However, with the approach of autumn and the start of the storage filling operations in Europe, the question will go back to climbingdragging prices with them.
The combined provisions of these increases will be translated, in all likelihood, in an additional outlay of different Hundreds of euros per year for families Italian. For a family with the aforementioned type consumption (2,700 kWh electricity and 1,400 SMC Gas), the estimated increase in the total expenditure for light and gas in 2025 could exceed 250 euros per year, not to mention any increases in network rates or taxes.
They will be the expenses above all The weakest bands of the population, such as the elderly with minimal pensions, the large families and nuclei that live in little efficient homes from an energy point of view.
