ROMA (ITALPRESS) – International tensions and hot record are making energy and fuel costs impede, with heavy relapses on market tertiary companies. This is what Confcommercio points out on the impact of energy revenues on market tertiary enterprises. This week the electricity price rose to 174,2 euro/MWh, 8.2% more than the previous week and even 37% more than the average of the first six months of 2026.
If these price levels were to be consolidated – Confcommercio notes – energy expenditure for tertiary enterprises would increase, in the coming months, about 22% compared to the average of the first half of the year, with a total increase of more than 150 million euros. In addition to the tensions on international markets, it is also the increase in consumption due to high temperatures, which particularly affects commercial activities, tourism and services for air conditioning and refrigeration. The gap between electricity and gas prices remains high, confirming the criticalities of the current energy price training system.
It is therefore urgent to intervene in order to decouple the price of electricity from that of the gas, in order to contain the costs for the enterprises and strengthen its competitiveness. To these criticalities are added the carburetors, in particular the diesel, which weigh directly on the road haulage and, in reflection, on the entire supply chain.
The sector continues, in fact, to depend almost exclusively on traditional fuels: in 2025 in Italy about 23 million tons of diesel and 8.9 million tons of gasoline for cars were consumed. In this context, and with the crisis that is also extending to the Red Sea, the supply of energy products must be guaranteed and the increase in prices must be avoided that, as in the case of oil, already record rises that in the coming days risk to return to the peaks of March. Confcommercio therefore asks the Government urgent measures to prevent new speculative phenomena on the markets of energy products and to prevent companies from facing further increases in costs, increased in recent months by about 30%.
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