The price of electricity for the final consumer after the expiry of the capping system, on April 1, 2025, will be in the range of 1.03 – 1.15 lei/kWh with VAT included, which would mean a 21% price increase for those with a of over 255 kWh/month and by 51% for those with less than 100 kWh/month, says the president of the Intelligent Energy Association (AEI), Dumitru Chisăliță.
He made a forecast of the price of electricity after the expiry of the ceiling.
“Slowly, the price offers of electricity for the period after the cap are starting to appear in mailboxes and on ANRE’s price comparator. The price offers appearing in the market are currently between 1.03 – 1.43 lei/kWh with VAT included for the post capping period. This will most likely be the interval in which the following offers from the other electricity suppliers to household customers will appear,” adds the president of AEI, according to Agerpres.
According to the quoted source, the electricity costs of an electricity supplier in Bucharest, taking into account the average prices traded on OPCOM, with delivery in the months of the following year, are between 0.4818 – 0.51864 lei/KWh, and after the tariffs, taxes, excises and the commercial margin are added, the average cost for the next year would reach a level of 1.0365 lei/KWh with VAT included, under the conditions in which the taxes, excises and tariffs do not change.
The president of AEI claims that this calculation did not take into account the costs of the imbalances which in 2024, “at some moments were based on the highest prices in Europe”.
Thus, on April 1, 2025, the price of electricity to the final consumer cannot be lower than the cost of 1.03 and prices will probably be in the range of 1.03 – 1.15 lei/kWh with VAT included.
“This means a decrease in the price of electricity by about 21% for consumers who consumed more than 255 kWh/month and an increase in the price of electricity by 51% for those who consumed less than 100 kWh/month (an average increase of about 17, 6 lei/month on the electricity bill).Maintaining an electricity price ceiling of 0.68 lei/kWh means selling below costs for suppliers, respectively the risk of malfunctions in the supply of energy or the need for money from the state budget for the subsidization of these prices, i.e. increases in fees and taxes – which in fact is at the disadvantage of the poor population,” also says the president of the Intelligent Energy Association, Dumitru Chisăliță.
The Minister of Energy, Sebastian Burduja, signaled on Wednesday evening, in a post on Facebook, that, as the market shows so far, all consumers in Romania will pay electricity prices lower than the current maximum ceiling, that of 1.3 lei/kWh . From the situation of the transactions carried out until 24.10.2024 on the electricity markets administered by OPCOM, the energy with delivery in the period of 2025, band profile, was sold at a weighted average price of 485.28 lei/MWh, and the peak profile at 539.31 lei/MWh. We add the balancing costs of the suppliers, the profit margin and all other regulated taxes and tariffs and we see that in all distribution areas the final selling price is between 1.1 and 1.22 lei/kWh, so below the current ceiling of 1, 3 lei kWh, explained Burduja.