Will the French electricity bills really “increase by 100%”, as Marine Le Pen says?

Marine Le Pen made the energy bill of the French one of his battle horses. At the beginning of April, the RN owner estimated, in an interview with the magazine the hemicycle, that the French electricity bill was going to “Increase by 100%”and business energy bills “30%”. And the culprit is all found: the multi -year energy programming (PPE). A text that was debated – but without a vote – in the National Assembly on April 28. François Bayrou had come to defend him in front of an empty hemicycle, barely twenty deputies being present. This Tuesday, May 6, it is up to the Senate to examine the text. Adjustments will be made there, before a decree expected next September. A new delay for a text expected since June 2023. Should it be feared that its promulgation will make the invoices flambés?

It is not the first time in recent months that Marine Le Pen has seized the subject. This fall, she had violently attacked the Barnier government on the subject of regulated electricity sales prices. The PPE gives it a new opportunity to position itself as a defender of the purchasing power of the French and to castigate, at the same time, the development of renewable energies, more particularly, wind, on our territory. André Merlin, who was the first chairman of the executive board of the electricity transport network manager (RTE) between 2000 and 2007, was the first to do the calculations. It directly incriminates the redemption prices of renewable electricity by the State and its consequences on electricity networks. Forgetting – Voluntarily or not – the third component of the invoice for consumers: the tax, known as electricity, and VAT.