At the lowest level of the last semester is formed in April, so far, the average wholesale of electricity on the stock market, which creates the conditions for further reduction of current invoices in May.

At the same time the Ministry of Environment and Energy is launching interventions At national and European level to contain electricity costs, on a permanent basis and regardless of the context of the international market and domestic demand.

OR average price Power on the Energy Exchange is shaped by this month close to 95 euros per megawatt hourthat is, it has returned to double -digit size for the first time since October 2024.

The price moves to the lowest semester level and is 38 % lower than in February. The main causes are the retreat her demand for electricity because of favorable weather conditions, As heating / air conditioning is not widely used while at the same time abundant production from renewable energy that throws the current to zero at noon, thus culminating in photovoltaic production. This phenomenon is repeated every spring, while prices rise in summer and winter when more gas units are employed to meet demand.

The average price on the stock market is the calculation basis of consumer prices for the floating “green“and”yellow“Invoices while those who have signed fixed billing contracts (” blue “invoices) are not affected by fluctuations.

In the meantime as the Minister of Environment and Energy had Stavros Papastavrou An interview with RES-EIA last week also announced subsidies to small and medium-sized enterprises, which relate retroactively to December 2024, January and February 2025.

Specifically, the Ministry of Environment and Energy announced subsidies for More than 1 million businesses To cover the increase in the current in December 2024 with February 2025. The aid is 2 cents per kilowatt -hour and are applied to 60 – 100 % of consumption (depending on the turnover) while bakeries, pastry shops and cleaning will receive 4 cents per kilowat.

They further mature by the RIS for the maintenance of costs regardless of seasonal fluctuations. At European level, the main objective is to practice the single market in practice to limit the divergences of prices from country to country that are at the expense of the European South. The main tool in this direction is to strengthen the cross -border interconnections that will allow, among other things, the further development of Greek power exports.

To internal market There are interventions in the way the prices are formulated after clearance of the discrepancies observed between the provision for the energy produced by each individual source, which is made on the day before and the actual formation of the sizes intra -day. The impact of Crete’s incorporation into the national system will also be important, with the completion of the “large” electric interconnection of Heraklion – Attica that will drastically restrict the utility services funded by consumers through electricity bills. The project is expected to be launched in the summer.