Electricity and gas prices in Sardinia have increased by 6.1% in three months: it's a pain for the wallet, but it fared better than in other regions. The island, in the ranking of increases triggered by the Hormuz crisis, is below the national average (+7.7%).
This is what a survey by the research office of Confartigianato Imprese reveals.
Sardinia, based on Istat 2026 data, which analysed the prices of
electricity and gas across the European Union, between February and May
this year.
At a territorial level, the analysis highlights how in the three months taken into consideration
consideration that a double-digit growth has been recorded in
Electricity and gas prices increased by 12.8% in Trentino-Alto Adige, 12.2% in Veneto, and 11.6% in Friuli-Venezia Giulia. Above-average increases were seen in Tuscany, 8.9%, Marche, 8.6%, and Lombardy, 8.1%.
On the contrary, a lesser push in prices was observed
electricity and gas in some regions of Southern Italy, including
Sardinia, together with Basilicata and Campania, increased by 6.1%, with Calabria at +5.7% and Sicily, where growth stopped at +4.8%.
"Sardinian businesses, like those in the rest of the European Union, are facing a new energy crisis without having absorbed the effects of the 2022 crisis," comments Giacomo Meloni, president of Confartigianato, "in most cases shouldering these extra costs so they don't impact the final prices of products and services."
"Then there are families and vulnerable groups," Meloni continues, "who are increasingly forced to make important choices, such as whether to live in cool environments in the summer or warm ones in the winter, or whether to make ends meet."
According to the survey, in the first three months of the Hormuz crisis, prices
Electricity and gas prices in the European Union remained stable (+0.3% between February and May), while in Italy they rose by 7.8% in the period under review, the highest growth among all 27 European Union countries , higher than the +5.2% in France, while prices fell in Germany (-0.5%) and, more markedly, in Spain (-11.8%).
(Unioneonline/E.Fr.)