The average consumer had a 2024 benefit of 2024 electricity who chose a fixed (blue) invoice at the beginning of time instead of the special (“green”) or the floating (“yellow”) invoices.

This conclusion comes for households with consumption equal to 300 kilowatts per month and explains the massive turn of the consumer towards stable invoices observed in recent months.

Specifically, according to data from the Waste, Energy and Water Regulatory Authority with regard to the average monthly kilowatt price per invoice category last year, from all suppliers, it appears that the annual expenditure for those who remained in the green invoice (with € 545) was 545. Invoice was marginally lower, at 533 euros. Those who closed in January 2024 with a fixed invoice of 12 cents per kilowatt -hour (there were then cheaper proposals, below 10 cents), paid a total of 396 euros (the amounts include only the cost of energy and not the charges for networks, taxes, etc.).

This difference explains the fivefolding, during 2024, of home consumers who turned to stable invoices which at the end of the year were 800,265 versus 161,461 in January. Already according to market estimates have exceeded 1 million.

According to RAAE, the movement of consumers from special invoices to fixed invoices was mainly observed during the months of June and July when special invoices have increased a lot and suppliers provided a variety of choices in fixed tariffs with low prices of 6 and 12 months. A similar phenomenon was observed in December, in which part of consumers moved to fixed invoices.

The picture in the EU is different, according to the monthly report on HEPI Retail Prices which points out that due to the energy crisis, contracts at constant prices became more expensive than floating or stopped being available. However, since April, the trend has changed again, resulting in three major markets (Germany, Great Britain and Netherlands) the fixed invoices have become cheaper again. However, the majority of consumers in the EU, and especially in the most mature markets, choose fixed price contracts.