News that should have delighted all French people… But no. For the first time in many months, the Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) announced, on September 11, a 10% price reduction on its public electricity network. This reduction, planned from February 1, 2025, should allow households paying around 2,000 euros for electricity per year to save 200 euros on their annual bill. However, on Thursday, September 12, Emmanuelle Wargon, president of the CRE, qualified the situation by warning that only six out of ten French people will benefit from this reduction.
Indeed, according to the president, only subscribers to EDF’s famous “blue tariff” will have the chance to see the amount of their bill decrease, i.e. 22.4 million households. For the others, “the updating of network tariffs will be done on November 1st and the decrease will be very limited”, it will be “reflected on contracts and suppliers”, Emmanuelle Wargon explains to Franceinfo. Concretely, the approximately 17.5 million subscribers who have subscribed to market offers will have to face the increase in the costs of the electricity network.
According to the president, relayed by La Dépêche, this is a “small increase” per year of 1%, “because the network and the connection, reinforcement and maintenance work have to be financed”. However, as our colleagues point out, the remaining 40% of French people can breathe a sigh of relief: suppliers are currently offering offers that are much lower (…)
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