Shocking: Hungarian firms pay the highest energy prices in EU

Hungary has the highest corporate energy prices out of all the Member States in Europe.

According to the report published by Eurostat, Hungarian energy prices are both the highest and the lowest in Europe. There is this great contrast in Hungarian energy prices. Household prices are way below the European average. Actually Hungary has the lowest energy price for average household consumers in all of Europe. However, corporate energy prices are the highest out of all of the Member States. So how did we get to the two edges of the statistics? How come Hungary became so polarised when it comes to energy prices?

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The European energy market

According to Portfolio, if we look at the big picture, the European numbers actually seem to be stabilising in this regard. Energy prices skyrocketed when there was an inflation in natural gas prices. This increase in price was the result of Russia’s attack on Ukraine. Since natural gas is considered a marginal fuel, and the energy market is priced after marginal fuels, this meant that the price of natural gas affected the electricity market too.