Energy bills 2 percent lower

The main factor behind the fall in energy bills was lower variable rates, but lower energy taxes also contributed.

Not all compeonents of energy bills have got cheaper. Transport-related costs were higher compared to the previous year, especially for electricity, but also for gas. Combined, these will cost households 66 euros more each year, compared to the previous year, an increase of 10 percent. Fixed supply costs for electricity and gas also increased by 16 euros and 11 euros year-on-year, respectively.

The calculations shown here do not take into account the charges that are sometimes payable by households in order to supply self-generated electricity back to the grid. Since the end of 2023, households that supply electricity back to the grid have increasingly been charged by their energy company to do this.

Differences between households

Energy bills vary widely between households. Energy consumption is affected by a range of factors, including the size of the dwelling and the household, the standard of insulation, the type of installations present and the way in which people heat their homes. Based on January 2025 price levels, a multi-person household in an older, larger detached dwelling heated using natural gas pay the most: an average of 3,520 euros annually. By contrast, a single-person household in a smaller, newer apartment heated using natural gas is lower by a factor of 2.6, averaging 1,380 euros per year. But there are significant differences even within these groups.

Homes that are heated primarily by electricity have the lowest energy bills on average, at €1,030 per year. This is a rapidly growing group, with very different installations. Many of these homes have heat pumps, generate plenty of electricity using solar panels and use no natural gas at all. However, the group also includes homes that still use natural gas for cooking or supplemental heating, for example, or which do not generate their own electricity. For this reason, the variation in the amounts spent on energy bills in this group is very widely.