“In recent months, the electricity bill has regularly found itself at the heart of the news, effectively devaluing the assets of the French electricity system and its stakeholders,” they continue, recalling that electricity “ constitutes one of the pillars of France’s energy strategy to guarantee our sovereignty, our climate trajectory and respond to the challenges of purchasing power and competitiveness. »
A level never reached before
They underline that the year 2024 marked the exit from the tariff shield with an increase in the electricity excise which rose for households from 1 euro per megawatt hour (MWh) excluding taxes to 21 euros/MWh excluding VAT on February 1, 2024. However , they indicate, “the draft finance law for 2025 which was presented last week finally provides that the excise rate could be between 30 euros/MWh excluding tax and 50 euros/MWh excluding tax, thus greatly exceeding the pre-crisis level. »
“The project presented by the government intends to carry out an overall increase in the electricity excise to a level never reached until now, which would constitute an ecological contradiction,” they assert.
Focused fossil energies
At the same time, fossil fuels “still represent two-thirds of our national final energy consumption and weigh heavily on our trade balance with energy imports which amount to more than 65 billion euros each year,” deplore -they.
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