Industrial energy costs drop in December as prices continue downward trend
Industrial producer prices for energy in the domestic market across the European Union fell by 1.3 per cent in December 2025 compared with the previous month, according to Eurostat.
These figures represent a significant annual decrease of 7.7 per cent when compared with the results from December 2024.
A retrospective look at the past five years reveals that industrial producer prices for energy surged in 2022 before entering a subsequent period of decline.
Despite this recent easing, the data indicates that between January 2021 and December 2025, overall prices increased by 66.3 per cent.
Producer prices specifically for electricity and gas supply rose by 0.1 per cent in December 2025 when measured against the November 2025 figures.
However, this specific sector recorded a drop of 7.4 per cent when compared with the levels seen in December 2024.
The sector covering the extraction of crude petroleum and natural gas experienced a monthly decrease of 3.7 per cent.
On an annual basis, prices for the extraction of these fossil fuels dropped by 23.2 per cent compared with December 2024.