Businesses paid more for electricity across the board in the first half of 2026, while households saw a small drop in their bills. That's according to Bulgaria's National Statistical Institute, which published the figures on its website. The data compares prices with the second half of 2025 and includes taxes, fees and VAT, with state subsidies factored in.

Companies using less than 20 MWh a year saw the biggest jump, with prices up 9.4%.

Household electricity prices fell in every group, though only slightly. The steepest drop, 1.4%, was for households using between 5,000 and 15,000 kWh.

Gas prices rose for households and for almost all business groups. The only exception was the smallest business users, where prices fell 0.7%. The biggest rise, 17.4%, hit companies using between 100,000 and 1,000,000 GJ.

For households, gas prices barely moved, up by at most 1.5% for the smallest users, those under 20 GJ, and the biggest, those over 200 GJ.

In the second half of 2025, gas prices for businesses had fallen sharply across every group compared with the first six months of the year. The biggest drop, 20.4%, was for companies using between 100,000 and 1,000,000 GJ. Households also paid less across the board, with the sharpest fall, 15.2%, among those using up to 20 GJ and those in the 20-to-200 GJ bracket, which the statistics institute says is the most common group.

Electricity had gone up for both businesses and households back then too. Companies using between 20,000 and 70,000 MWh saw the biggest rise, 13%, while among households the top increase, 5.2%, hit the heaviest users, those consuming more than 15,000 kWh a year.