French people who refuse to install a Linky meter in their home will have to pay additional costs from August 2025.
Sanctions soon to be applied. The Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) plans to impose additional costs on those who refuse to equip themselves with a Linky meter from August 2025. Nearly 2.1 million households would not be still not endowed, according to the authority.
Although the compulsory nature of this equipment is not new, French people who did not have Linky meters nevertheless had the possibility of transmitting their consumption to Enedis once every 12 months. The latter will have to pay additional costs from August 2025 if they are still not equipped.
Who is affected by this measure?
All households not equipped with an electricity meter, “with the exception of technical impossibilities caused by Enedis”, will have to pay 6.93 euros every two months, or 41.59 euros per year, if they send their consumption index at Enedis.
Those who do not communicate their index will have to pay an additional 4.18 euros every two months. In total, the additional costs to which they will be exposed are 66.66 euros, reports MoneyVox.
As a reminder, people not equipped with a Linky meter and who do not transmit their reading once every 12 months have been penalized since January 1, 2023 to the tune of 9.04 euros every two months.
Why this sanction?
CRE considers that this measure is a form of financial compensation for Enedis. It would thus allow it to cover the “residual reading costs” linked to old meters.
This invoicing would thus compensate for the cost of visiting a technician, but also the costs of reminders sent to customers to request the transmission of consumption indexes.
The regulator specifies, however, that households which are technically unable to install a Linky meter are exempt from fees. This is particularly the case for people who live in areas where heavy work is necessary to develop the electricity network.
