In the period July - December 2024, the natural gas prices, including all taxes, levies and VAT for non-household customers increased slightly compared to the period January - July 2024. The largest increase - by 3%, is recorded in group I3 with annual consumption between 10 000 GJ and 100 000 GJ.
In the same period, an increase is also observed for the natural gas prices, including all taxes, levies and VAT for all groups of household customers. The largest increase - by 6.2%, is recorded for the smallest consumers in group D1 with annual consumption up to 20 GJ.
On annual basis in 2024, compared to the previous year 2023, the natural gas prices with all taxes, levies and VAT for non-household customers decrease by more than 20% for all groups. The largest decrease - by 23.1%, is registered in group I4 with annual consumption between 100 000 GJ and 1 000 000 GJ.
For the household customers, on annual basis in 2024 compared to 2023, a decrease by an average of over 19% is observed for the natural gas prices, including all taxes, levies and VAT for all groups. The largest decrease by 21.1% is registered for the biggest consumers in group D3 with annual consumption over 200 GJ, and for group D2 with annual consumption from 20 GJ to 200 GJ, which includes the majority of household consumers, the decrease is 19.8%.
The main reason for the annual price reduction for all groups and types of end customers is a decrease in the price of natural gas - by an average of 30%. This price is part of the ‘Energy and Supply’ component and constitutes about 60% of the final price of natural gas for the consumers. An additional factor is the average decrease by 20% in the price for transmission and access (including capacity) on the gas transmission network, which is part of the ‘Network’ component.
Data are representative for the country - all suppliers of natural gas provide data on household and final non-household customers, for the quantities delivered through gas transmission/gas distribution network. They are calculated as weighted average prices by the actual delivered quantities of natural gas and the corresponding invoiced values to final customers, by standard annual consumption bands, for the observed six-month period in the following two directions:
- By levels of taxation - data are reported twice per year, for the periods January to June and July to December;
- By components and sub-components - data are collected every semester, but are reported annually as arithmetic average prices.
The information is published pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2016/1952 on European statistics on natural gas and electricity prices.
Detailed data on electricity and natural gas prices are published on the NSI website under the heading ‘Energy’.
