Since the end of the agreement allowing the transit of Russian gas on Ukrainian soil, the gas market has panicked. European countries, which do not have full gas stocks, could be forced to source elsewhere during the winter, which would push up prices.
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– Gas could cost more in 2025 than in 2024.
Your gas consumption should cost you more at the start of the year. The gas cost, Thursday January 2, 50 euros per megawatt hourcompared to 25 euros at the same period last year. High inflation in just a few months. Why this upward trend? On RTL, François Lenglet explains that since Ukraine stopped transporting Russian gas on its soil “which supplied European countries”Wednesday January 1, the markets panicked.
-Even “if only 5% of European consumption” passed through this immense Ukrainian gas pipeline called Brotherhood, this breakdown of the agreement between Moscow and kyiv comes at a time when Europe “drawn on its gas stocks because of the cold”specifies the specialist on the radio microphone. In France, these stocks, which represent a third of annual consumption when full, are only 59% full. France could therefore soon import more liquefied natural gas from Russia.
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Increases in gas and electricity?
By purchasing gas on the world market, Europe risks driving up prices. If you have not opted for a fixed price gas contract, you may therefore feel the surge on your next invoices. And the increase could also concern electricity, because certain power plants run on gas, our colleagues point out.
