In December 2025, in the EU, industrial producer prices for energy in the domestic market fell by 1.3% compared with the previous month and by 7.7% compared with December 2024. Looking back at the past 5 years, industrial producer prices for energy surged in 2022, before entering a period of decline. Overall, however, between January 2021 and December 2025, prices increased by 66.3%.
Producer prices for electricity and gas supply rose by 0.1% in December 2025 compared with November 2025 but dropped by 7.4% compared with December 2024.
Prices for the extraction of crude petroleum and natural gas decreased by 3.7% compared with the previous month and by 23.2% compared with December 2024.
The article presents a handful of findings from the more detailed Statistics Explained article on the industrial producer price index. (....)