{"id":151875,"date":"2025-10-29T18:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T18:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/151875\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T18:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T18:04:09","slug":"household-electricity-prices-in-1st-half-of-2025-0-5-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/151875\/","title":{"rendered":"Household electricity prices in 1st half of 2025: -0.5% &#8211; News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">In the first half of 2025, the average electricity price for households in the <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:European_Union_(EU)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EU<\/a> remained largely stable at \u20ac28.72 per 100 kWh, following a -0.5% decrease from \u20ac28.87 in the second half of 2024. This continues the period of price stability, although the prices are still well above pre-2022 energy crisis levels.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">The share of taxes and levies in electricity bills increased from 24.7% in the second half of 2024 to 27.6% in the first half of 2025. As a result, the decrease in the pre-tax electricity prices has not yet been reflected in the final prices for consumers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/documents\/4187653\/22447755\/electricity-prices-household-consumers-2015-2025.jpg\/9d92582b-705f-cfeb-34c0-e40a2effa4f1?t=1761640874719\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Development of electricity prices for household consumers in the EU, 2015-2025  (\u20ac per 100 kWh). Chart. See link to the full dataset below.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/electricity-prices-household-consumers-2015-2025.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" width=\"700\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph ecl-u-type-align-center\">Source dataset: <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/bookmark\/fc4d5149-3296-4873-9f2f-6821a88a63ad?lang=en&amp;createdAt=2025-10-22T14:28:53Z\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nrg_pc_204<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">This information comes from <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/web\/energy\/database\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">data on electricity prices<\/a> published recently by Eurostat. The article presents a handful of findings from the more detailed <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Electricity_price_statistics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Statistics Explained articles on electricity prices<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wide disparities in household electricity prices in the EU<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Germany reported the highest electricity prices in the first semester of 2025, at \u20ac38.35 per 100 kWh, followed by Belgium (\u20ac35.71) and Denmark (\u20ac34.85). In contrast, the lowest prices were recorded in Hungary (\u20ac10.40), Malta (\u20ac12.44) and Bulgaria (\u20ac13.00).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Compared with the first semester of 2024, there were significant price increases in Luxembourg (+31.3%), Ireland (+25.9%) and Poland (+20.0%). Meanwhile, the largest price reductions were recorded in Slovenia (-13.1%), Finland (-9.8%) and Cyprus (-9.5%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Expressed in <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Purchasing_power_standard_(PPS)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">purchasing power standard<\/a> (PPS), electricity prices were the highest for households in Czechia (39.16), Poland (34.96) and Italy (34.40). The lowest prices based on PPS were observed in Malta (13.68), Hungary (15.01) and Finland (18.70).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph ecl-u-type-align-center\">Source dataset: <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/bookmark\/66528f66-794f-431f-98aa-8eed2f092dd3?lang=en&amp;createdAt=2025-10-22T14:29:35Z\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nrg_pc_204<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Marginal decrease in non-household electricity prices<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">In the first half of 2025, non-household electricity prices in the EU showed a marginal decrease to \u20ac19.02 per 100 kWh, down from \u20ac19.41 in the second half of 2024. The number of countries with price increases was nearly equal to those with decreases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the first half of 2025, the average electricity price for households in the EU remained largely stable&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[79,5720,179,18,88932,19,17,45751],"class_list":{"0":"post-151875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-data-driven-news","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-environment-and-energy","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-nrg"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115458779899207094","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}