The latest tariff update of electricity for vulnerable consumers, decided by Arera In March 2025, he introduced a reduction in annual expenditure of less than 15 euros per family, precisely 14.8 euros per core. However, despite the discounts in the bill, the savings (which is still low and is equivalent to about 1.25 euros per month), is unable to act as a buffer to thesurge in energy costs recorded in the last four years.
Of how much the bills have increased in the last 4 years
Analyzing the estimates provided by Codaconswith the new rates, for an average consumption of 2,000 kWh per year, the light bill for vulnerable drops to 610.8 euros. There is, actually a drop, but it is minimal, above all if we consider that, compared to the same period of 2021, the energy expenditure is increased by 46.6%translating into an annual aggravation of 196 euros more to family.
More and more Italians at risk of poverty due to expenses
Inevitably, the dear-energy continues to weigh on the pockets of the Italians, despite the recent tariff adjustments and the gradual protein service. And, if you add the expenditure for gasthe overall energy cost for vulnerable families today reaches i 2,045.8 euros per year. It is therefore easy to understand how, for many nuclei, the purchasing power is in constant erosion.
Not surprisingly, according to the data Istat Updated in 2025, Italians at risk of poverty became 23.1% in 2024, recording a worsening (in terms of absolute numbers) compared to the previous year.
To determine this situation was the combined arranged of dear-price and energy increases, two factors that in recent years have strongly Reduced real income of families, that is, the income actually available, not eroded by the inflationary thrust. Despite a nominal increase of +4.2% of the average income, in fact, the increase in inflation and rates have profoundly affected millions of Italians on the standard of living.
The economic consequences for families and companies
The increase in bills not only erodes the available income of families, but feeds a vicious circle Which has a direct impact also on companies and which, as a boomerang effect, always affects the end consumer at the end.
Not only the small and medium -sized enterprises pay more because of inflation and increases, but even entire production sectors risk suffering a further contraction of the application due to the lower purchasing power of families.
Higher energy costs mean in fact higher final prices of goods and services, which penalize those who buy – in particular the cetio mediobasso – and brake the economic recovery.
For this reason they would serve ad hoc government measures To contain the price emergency and the dear-energy, more incisive and structural than the contrasting interventions of the last few years, which have proved completely inadequate, leaving the families exposed to the uncontrolled increases in the bills. In such a precarious economic framework, the absence of incisive and structural strategies only aggravates an already deep crisis.
The alarm launched by consumer associations cannot be ignored: Italian families need concrete responses, policies capable of containing the price of electricity and guaranteeing real support for the most fragile nuclei. Reducing the bills of a few euros per year is not a solution, but a intervention plan Effective that reports the costs of light to sustainable levels and averting a further impoverishment of the population.
