Government subsidies were introduced in 2022 as a response to a substantial increase in electricity prices. Residential electricity customers received two payments of €200 each to offset their 2022 electricity bill costs. These payments were administered directly by electricity suppliers as part of the billing process. They have been included in the residential electricity prices used in this release. There were no similar government subsidies for residential gas.
A Temporary Business Energy Support Scheme (TBESS) was introduced to support businesses with increases in their electricity and natural gas bill costs in 2022. The TBESS payments were administered by the Revenue Commissioners and paid outside of the utility billing system. Hence, they are not included in the prices used in this release.
The gas bills in this release do not include natural gas used by power plants. Power plants accounted for 65% of networked gas consumption in 2022. The electricity bills do not include meters for very large energy users. The reason for excluding these very high electricity and gas consumption customers is because the weighted prices provided by energy suppliers may not be appropriate to this very small group of customers. Please refer to the Background Notes for more information on the release methodology.
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