Hungary’s supply of natural gas and electricity is secured, confirmed by the Hungarian Energy and Public Utility Regulatory Authority (MEKH). Regardless of the Ukraine war, Gazprom delivers reliably via the various pipelines. The Hungarian gas storage facilities are still about 20% full.
The MEKH is also cooperate with the transmission system operator Mavir Zrt. and European partners to ensure the supply of electricity to Ukraine as best as possible.
The extreme fluctuations in energy prices on the exchanges would not affect Hungarian private households, which are protected by official prices. A private household paid the equivalent of 10.35 euro cents/kWh for electricity in February, the lowest price in the EU, where electricity prices averaged 24.15 cents/kWh. Hungarian private households paid an average of 2.80 cents/kWh for natural gas, an average EU household paid 10.75 cents.