Energy prices in March: Electricity remains unaffordable, heating oil drops!

Energy prices in March: Electricity remains unaffordable, heating oil drops!

Energy prices for households fell by 1.5 percent in March 2025 compared to the previous month, which represents a positive development for consumers. Despite this decline, the prices still have an increase of 2.2 percent in the annual comparison. The high electricity prices have contributed significantly to the total price increase, with an alarming increase of 36.3 percent compared to the previous year. This can be seen from current reports of the vienna.at

At the same time, heating oil prices fell 4.1 percent in March to the previous month and 8.6 percent compared to the previous year. Diesel and super gasoline each recorded a decrease of 3.2 percent in the monthly comparison. In contrast, gas prices remained unchanged for the previous month, but fell by 11.6 percent in the year. With a slight increase of 0.2 percent in the month comparison, electricity and district heating were more expensive, which is due to the expiry of state support measures.

outlook for the coming months

Experts expect possible price declines in April, which could be favored by falling oil prices, a weaker dollar and increased photovoltaic generation. The prices for firewood also fell by 1.1 percent to the previous month, while wood pellet prices rose by 0.2 percent. In the year comparison, there are still declines at prices: 9.5 percent for firewood and 10.5 percent for wood pellets.

The static report on producer development emphasizes the monthly collection of data about various types of energy, including hard coal, lignite, oil, natural gas, petrol, diesel, light heating oil, liquid gas, electricity and district heating. This information comes from various statistics of the Group prices and from Eurostat, as in the report of Destatis . The base year for these price statistics is 2021.