The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero published Quarterly Energy Prices: December 2025 on 18 December 20251. The publication is described as accredited official statistics and covers energy prices to domestic and industrial consumers for all the major fuels, as well as comparisons of fuel prices in the EU and G7 countries1.
The December 2025 edition runs to 30 pages and is available as a PDF of 925 KB1. It contains tables, charts and commentary1. The department said the annexes are now part of the main document rather than separate files:
"Annexes A to D are now included in the main publication."
The department also changed how the underlying tables are distributed. It said it no longer publishes a separate copy of the combined tables and has instead included links to the QEP tables from the main document1. Questions about the content are directed to energyprices.stats@energysecurity.gov.uk1.
The GOV.UK page does not state the price figures themselves, the size of any change since the previous edition, or the UK's position in the EU and G7 comparisons; those sit in the PDF and its linked tables1. No date has been given for the next edition on the page reviewed1.
Why it matters for households
Quarterly Energy Prices is one of the standing official energy statistics publications through which the government reports what households and businesses pay for energy. For a household, its value is as a reference point: it sets out domestic prices across the major fuels and places them in an international frame, which is the basis for judging whether a home's energy prices over time are moving with the wider market or against it.
The international comparison element is the part most relevant to questions of energy independence. By presenting how UK domestic energy prices compare with Europe and the other G7 economies, the publication allows a household to see whether the cost of heating and power at home reflects UK-specific factors or a pattern shared across comparable countries. That distinction matters when weighing the case for measures that reduce exposure to imported fuel, such as insulation, on-site generation or a change of heating system, because it indicates how much of the bill is set by conditions a single household cannot influence.
The change to how annexes and tables are published affects how easily that material can be found and reused. Annexes A to D now sit inside the main document, and the combined tables are no longer issued as a separate copy, with links to the QEP tables given in the main document instead1. Anyone who previously worked from the standalone tables will need to follow those links.
What happens next
No next publication date is given on the December 2025 page1. The publication sits within the Quarterly Energy Prices collection, which is the series households and advisers can follow for subsequent editions1.