According to Arera, starting from 1 June 2024 the reference price of gas for vulnerable people will increase by 3.8%.
“No effect, given that the heating season is over. Despite the increase, the pieces of the Vulnerability Protection Service remain more convenient than almost all the offers currently present in the free market. In fact, you can count on the fingers of one hand those of the free market that are lower than the protection and, considering the annual consumption of a typical customer, 1,100 cubic meters of gas, the saving in those cases is little more than 2 euros per year. In short, anyone who has turned 75 would do well to go to the Arera Offers Portal and compare the various prices” says Marco Vignola, vice president of the National Consumers Union.
According to the study by the National Consumers Union, for the typical new user who consumes 1100 cubic meters of gas, +3.8% means spending 43 euros (42.79 euros) more on an annual basis. The total expenditure in the next twelve months (not, therefore, according to the sliding year, but from 1 June 2024 to 31 May 2025, assuming constant prices), thus rises to 1183 euros, which added to the 486 of the electricity of the typical new customer who consumes 2,000 kWh per year, determine a total expenditure of 1669 euros.
If the price of gas rises by 3.8% today, compared to pre-crisis times, i.e. compared to the protected market price of June 2021, based on the new historical series reconstructed according to the new typical customer, the price is today 46.1% higher, while compared to the peak of June 2022 it is 13.3% lower.
