To heat or not to heat? That is the question. Since November 1, 2024, the Tariff for Use of Public Electricity Networks (TURPE) has increased by 4.81%. An important figure which concerns all households, regardless of your electricity supplier. Set by the Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE), this tariff must guarantee a certain balance between costs and remuneration for investments in electricity networks. As the La Belle Énergie website points out, this price increases due to several factors: inflation (which represents +2.50% of the increase) annual automatic indexation (+0.31%) and the regularization of charges and products (+2%). And even if this price regulation will only be visible on invoices from February 2025, the French wallets risk taking a hit. A study carried out by OpinionWay on behalf of triPica, a French specialist in the management of digital services for energy and telecoms, illustrates how consumers intend to adapt to this change.
While the purchasing power of the French is still constrained, the study questions the solutions that consumers will be able to find in order not to see their budget too impacted by the increase in taxes on electricity. Unfortunately, the latter are few in number and often too radical. Indeed, the study indicates that 71% of the lowest-income French people intend to “drastically reduce (…)
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