Electricity and gas prices rise 2025: Higher costs for Lower Austrians!

Electricity and gas prices rise 2025: Higher costs for Lower Austrians!

At the turn of 2025, a drastic increase in network costs is emerging for electricity and gas customers in Lower Austria. From 1 January, households with an annual electricity consumption of 3,500 kilowatt hours with a network fee of 10.02 cents per kilowatt hour must expect an increase of 32.2 percent compared to 2024. This means an additional financial burden of over 100 euros per year for consumers, as ORF reports. Lower Austria has the highest increase in Austria, followed by Vienna and Styria with equally significant increases.

consequences for gas customers and the overall development

The situation is similar with gas prices, where consumers have to increase by 19.4 percent to 1.82 cents per kilowatt hour for annual consumption of 15,000 kilowatt hours. The equivalent of this means 53.32 euros more in the year, which catapults into third place in the federal states with the highest climbs, according to Puls24. The increase in network costs is explained by the necessary investments in the infrastructure and the sunken consumption figures. The regulatory authority E-Control ensures that the providers cannot take advantage of their monopoly-like position.

The situation becomes even more complicated by increasing taxes and levies. After the loss of price reductions in the course of the energy crisis, such as the electricity tax, it is expected that the tax burden will also increase again from January 2025 to the originally planned level. This increases the costs for the use of the power grid not only in general, but also on an individual level for every household. This affects all regions of Austria, but in particular the customers in Lower Austria are strongly affected, which is re -fitting the discussion about the fair distribution of costs in the energy market.