The report was first established in 2009 to provide much needed, regularly updated, reliable data on retail prices for gas and electricity customers across Europe.
Highlights from the report
- Residential energy prices on a continuous upward trend since the beginning of 2010.
- Shocking differences in electricity and gas prices depending on where a customer lives in Europe.
- At PPP, countries with comparatively low income have highest energy prices (Portugal, Greece, Spain) and spend a larger share of disposable income on energy.
- Number of vulnerable or “fuel poor” households to increase in Europe.
- EU-15 end-user electricity and gas prices increase faster than inflation.
- Energy prices increase fastest in countries worst hit by economic crisis.