Gas bills down 8.1% (but transport and taxes weigh for over half)

Go down The gas billswhich in April based on the rates updated by Arera for vulnerable customers who remained in protection (the regime protected for non -vulnerable ended in January 2024) they went down 8.1 percent compared to March. The price of the raw material only – writes the authority – for customers in the vulnerability protection service, is equal to 37.60 euros per megawattora. According to the study of the National Consumer Union, for the typical user who consumes 1,100 cubic meters of gas, the drop in 8.1% means spending 105 euros (104.94 euros) less on an annual basis, even if in reality the effect is practically almost null since since April 15 the heaters are off all over Italy except in the high mountains.
But The raw material weighs only 40% of billswhich for the rest are composed of the retail cost (5.58% of the total); From distribution, measurement, distribution of distribution services (21.5%), system charges (3.07%) and taxes (29.44%).

The free market

The drop reflects the lowest prices on the Italian wholesale PSV market e Even those in the free market, especially with variable prices hooked to the market, should see the bills go down. « On the free market – I revealed an investigation of no -profit and wegroup consumerism – the rates follow the trend of vulnerability, but with more speed as operators can change the new offers and apply better conditions « .

Higher prices of a year ago

But there is little to celebrate, according to consumer associations, which motivate the monthly decline with seasonality and also underline how much higher prices than 4 years ago. In the comparison with April last year, the price of the gas today is however 7.3%higher. And compared to the pre-crisis times of April 2021, based on the new historical series reconstructed according to the new typical customer, it is 46.6 percent higher. The expenditure in the next 12 months, assuming fixed prices, is less expensive than 23 euros than that paid in 2024.

Discounted discounted, comment from the National Consumer Union. «With the end of the thermal season, the speculations on the gas cease as always. Of course we would like to understand what we expect to eliminate the TTF of Amsterdam and the marginal price system that allow these shameful extrapropitates and to enrich themselves on the shoulders of families « , says Marco Vignola, vice -president of the National Consumer Union, commenting on the data of Arera.