This applies from 2025
Basic suppliers adjust their electricity prices at the turn of the year
Updated on November 29, 2024Reading time: 2 minutes
New year, new electricity prices – at least that’s how most basic suppliers think. Reasons for this include, for example, changed network fees and surcharges. What should consumers expect in 2025?
As early as mid-November, many electricity providers announced that they were reducing their network fees (you can find out the details here). It is now known how these changes will affect private households' annual electricity bills. The energy sharing platform ene't GmbH has informed t-online what consumers have to expect and in which regions the electricity in the basic supply is particularly expensive or cheap.
More than a third (39 percent) of basic providers have redefined their tariffs. In most cases, these are electricity price reductions that are clearly noticeable for customers. The ene't analysis shows that households with an average annual consumption of 4,000 kilowatt hours (kWh) in particular benefit: They will pay on average around 9.6 percent less in 2025 than in 2024. The financial burden is reduced for single households (1,500 kWh/year). through electricity by 7.6 percent.
SLP customers (“standard load profile” customers with low consumption of around 3,500 kWh) save an average of 10.2 percent, according to ene't.
According to the analysis, there are significant price declines primarily in Bavaria. The local provider Electricity Supply Cooperative Perlesreut has reduced the costs of basic and replacement supplies by 29.5 percent.
Another provider that will noticeably relieve the burden on its customers in the coming year is Stadtwerke Quedlinburg (Saxony-Anhalt). They reduce the basic service tariff by 27.1 percent. And electricity customers of the municipal works in Borna (Saxony) will also save around 26 percent on electricity costs in 2025 compared to the previous year.
However, there are also electricity customers who have to pay more for the same consumption. These include, for example, customers of Stadtwerke Duisburg: the “Partner Strom Classic” tariff is 18.1 percent more expensive. It will also be more expensive for households in Rollhäusl (Bavaria) and Zweibrücken (Rhineland-Palatinate). Electricity prices here are rising by 16 and 11.3 percent respectively.
