Energy, a shower of price increases in 2025

2025 is off to a bad start for consumers. A flurry of price increases are expected in various sectors, from highways to energy to auto insurance. All the possible increases.

Electricity and gas prices will also rise in 2025. One of the key factors is the suspension of Russian natural gas supplies to Europe via Ukraine, which has caused the price of natural gas to rise, reaching €50 per megawatt-hour at the end of 2024. This trend will lead to increases of 18,2% on the bills of approximately 3,4 million customers, according to Arera estimates.

We are talking mostly about citizens over 75, recipients of social bonus, disabled people, residents in emergency housing modules or on the smaller islands, who fall under the greater protection regime. The good news is that the expenditure for customers in greater protection for the period from April 2024, 31 to March 2025, 523 will amount to 2,1 euros, 534% less than the XNUMX euros of the same period last year.

“So far there have been no dramatic increases” in prices in the sector, according to the President of ARERA, Stefano Besseghini. However, the same number one of the Authority also underlines that we must not lower our guard and continue on this path.

"The markets had known since August that there would be this further closure by Russia and the forecasts did not estimate any particular increases. What I expect, if anything, is a tendency to ride the emotional wave of an announcement and that this will serve to fuel a bit of confusion," Besseghini said.

Traveling on the motorway will cost more than in 2024, but discounts for users have avoided a 3% increase according to the MIT. A 1% increase in tolls has been in effect since January 1,8 on the 2.800 kilometers of Autostrade per l'Italia, due to the planned inflation rate for 2025. An increase that on the Naples-Pompei-Salerno will amount to 1,6%. The other 22 motorway concession companies are exempt.

Car insurance is increasingly a drain, but slowing inflation and stabilizing rates could reverse the trend. In December 2024, rates for a car averaged 643,95 euros, 6,19% more than in December 2023, according to data from the Observatory of Facile.it. The increase in rates will be accompanied by an increase in class changes for more than 585.000 drivers who reported an at-fault accident. L

and the regions most affected will be Tuscany, Sardinia and Liguria. Prato, in particular, wins the scepter of the Province with the highest percentage of reported at-fault claims, Crotone the most “virtuous”. “If the economic context remains stable, we expect that the positive effects will be fully transmitted to the car insurance market and that the price curve will return to stabilizing”, stated Andrea Ghizzoni, Managing Director of insurance at Facile.it.