Electricity and gas offers: the fixed price becomes convenient again, thanks to the decline and stability in wholesale energy prices. We are at -45% compared to March 2023.
Electricity and gas offers: “Tariffs at the level of the beginning of 2022, alternatives to the indexed”
He supports it the Segugio.it Observatory, explaining that choosing a tariff capable of guaranteeing blocked costs for at least 12 months has long been an almost impossible mission. The energy crisis has brought the prices of energy raw materials to record values, with a particularly unstable market. For suppliers, propose blocked rates it was a very risky choice and, for this reason, they essentially disappeared but, above all, they were very not very convenient. The market, however, has changed profoundly over the last few months. The drop in wholesale pricesboth for electricity and gas, allows suppliers to offer again convenient fixed price offers. Able to represent a concrete alternative to indexed ones. The analysis confirms that in March the best fixed price tariff, both for electricity and gas, returned to the early 2022 levels. For consumers there is therefore the concrete possibility of choosing a convenient fixed rate and locking in the price.
“The cost of energy can be blocked at €0.11/kWh”
The best fixed electricity tariff in March 2024 allows you to freeze the cost of energy at €0.11/kWha unit cost lower than – 45% compared to the same month of 2023. If we broaden the comparison, the price is -30% compared to the same month of 2022 and much lower than the maximum peak reached in October 2022 (0.41 €/kWh). However, still far from the pre-crisis period when the energy cost of fixed price tariffs was around €0.08/kWh. Explains Paolo Benazzi from Segugio.it: “For a certain period, fixed offers disappeared, or the few that survived allowed the price to be blocked at very high levels. They have been back for a few months now, but until recently the consumer was able to lock in the price it was an expensive luxury. The price was fixed 30-40% higher than wholesale prices, also forecast for the year ahead. Today, for the first time since the crisis, fixed price tariffs are approaching variable e the price can be locked at advantageous levels”.
