In the second half of 2025 private households in Germany paid an average of 12.23 cents per kilowatt‑hour for natural gas. According to the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) released on Tuesday, this is a 0.8 percent rise compared with the first half of 2025. By contrast, when the 2025-second‑half figure is compared to the same period in 2024, the average gas price falls slightly by 0.4 percent. Compared with the second half of 2021 – the period before the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the accelerating energy crisis – household gas prices are 79.1 percent higher.
Electricity costs for private consumers were on average 40.55 cents per kilowatt‑hour in the second half of 2025, which is 1.6 percent more than in the first half of 2025, 1.6 percent lower than in the second half of 2024, and almost a quarter – 23.4 percent – higher than in the second half of 2021.
The procurement and distribution costs for natural gas for private households fell slightly by 0.8 percent in the second half of 2025 versus the first half of 2025. Compared with the second half of 2024, those costs dropped sharply by 10.0 percent. Taxes, levies and charges for all private gas customers were flat at 3.86 cents per kilowatt‑hour in the second half of 2025, unchanged from the first half of the year. However, compared with the second half of 2024 the total burden rose by 5.8 percent, the result of increases in the CO₂ tax and the gas‑storage surcharge that came into effect on 1 January 2025. Together with a further rise in grid fees (+19.7 percent), the overall average gas price barely dipped by 0.4 percent compared with the second half of 2024.
Private electricity customers paid, on average, 1.2 percent more in procurement and distribution costs in the second half of 2025 than in the first half of the year. This component, however, was 8.6 percent lower than in the second half of 2024. Grid fees fell 1.4 percent versus the same period in 2024. Taxes, charges and levies increased by 8.3 percent compared with the second half of 2024, mainly due to the higher offshore network surcharge that started on 1 January 2025 and the increased premium for special grid use. Overall, private households paid 1.6 percent less for electricity in the second half of 2025 than in the second half of 2024.
Non‑household customers – including companies, commercial operations and authorities – paid an average of 6.18 cents per kilowatt‑hour for natural gas (excluding VAT and other deductible taxes) in the second half of 2025. This is 8.4 percent lower than in the first half of 2025 and 2.7 percent lower than in the second half of 2024. In a longer‑term comparison with the second half of 2021 the prices are 33.5 percent higher overall.
Gas prices for non‑households varied significantly with annual consumption. For relatively low‑consumption customers (between 1 000 and under 10 000 gigajoules) the average price in the second half of 2025 was 8.60 cents per kilowatt‑hour, unchanged from the first half of 2025 but almost twice as high (+93.3 percent) compared with the same period in 2021.
For customers with an annual consumption above 4 million gigajoules, natural gas cost 4.52 cents per kilowatt‑hour – a 14.7 percent drop from the first half of 2025. Compared with the second half of 2021, the average price for these large consumers fell by 20.4 percent, owing to the very high 2021 price level. In 2021 gas prices surged dramatically, in some cases quadrupling relative to the first half of that year; these steep rises hit large consumers the hardest, whereas prices for smaller and medium customers rose more slowly because of longer‑term contracts.
For electricity, non‑households paid 19.22 cents per kilowatt‑hour without VAT or other deductible taxes in the second half of 2025. This is 0.6 percent cheaper than in the first half of 2025 and 6.5 percent cheaper than in the second half of 2024. Compared with the second half of 2021, the electricity price per kilowatt‑hour is 15.4 percent higher.
Non‑households with an annual consumption below 20 megawatt‑hours paid 32.58 cents per kilowatt‑hour in the second half of 2025, which is 0.7 percent lower than in the first half of 2025. In the longer‑term view relative to the second half of 2021 prices have risen by 28.1 percent.
In the largest consumption group – those using more than 150 000 megawatt‑hours – electricity cost 13.07 cents per kilowatt‑hour in the second half of 2025, 2.3 percent less than in the first half of the year. Compared with the second half of 2021 (13.11 cents per kilowatt‑hour) the average price for these large consumers remains at a similar level.