These are difficult times for Italian businesses, which will face new price increases in the year that has just started. Electricity and gas bills in 2025 could cost the entire Italian business system 13.7 billion euros more than in 2024, an increase of 19.2%. In total, total spending should reach 85.2 billion: 65.3 of this will be for electricity and 19.9 for gas. Northern companies must pay the heaviest price. This geographical distribution actually “contains” a significant part of the company stock in our country and will therefore have to take the largest share of the increase; almost two-thirds of the total load.
Bills a blow to businesses in 2025
The forecasts come from the CGIA Research Office and are based on the hypothesis that the average price of electricity in 2025 will be 150 euros per MWh and gas 50 euros per MWh. CGIA admits: “Even if we expect a significant increase in energy costs this year, this will still be much lower than what we experienced during the most critical period of the last energy crisis that hit all of Europe between the end of 2021 and 2020.” The first months of 2023″. But at the same time, “it is important to remember that the public measures adopted at that time, which helped control the rise in bills for both families and businesses, are no longer at our disposal today: we are talking about a total of 92.7 billion euros”.
I’m giving you area by area
At the regional level, given that the majority of production and commercial activities are located in the North, increases in electricity and gas for 2025 will particularly affect the regions with the highest consumption, namely Lombardy, with an increase of 3 percent. 2 billion euros, Emilia Romagna with +1.6 billion, Veneto with +1.5 billion and Piedmont with +1.2 billion. 8.8 billion (64 percent of the total) of the expected cost increase for this year will fall on companies in the north.
According to CGIA, the change in spending compared to last year will mainly affect electricity and natural gas. Entrepreneurs will pay 9.8 billion more for electricity bills and 3.9 billion more for natural gas. The most significant increases will always concern the North, especially Lombardy, with an additional increase of +2.3 billion for electricity and +887 million for gas. On the other hand, Lombardy corresponds to 23.8 percent of the country’s total with 49,331 GW/hour electricity consumption recorded in 2023 and is the region where Italy’s most energy-intensive companies are located.
Source: Today IT
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