With the disappearance of the regulated gas tariff (TRV) on June 30, you will automatically be switched to a market offer offered by Engie from July 1. Named Gateway, it costs even more than the current regulated fare.
The regulated sales tariff (TRV) for gas will disappear on June 30 and plunge at least 2.7 million households into uncertainty. Faced with a volatile market, the energy mediator, like consumer defense associations, have repeatedly called for caution. But, if by summer, you don’t take the lead, you will automatically be switched to a market offer proposed by Engie from July 1st.
Problem, it will not necessarily correspond to your needs. Above all, she should lead a new automatic rate increase of 3% after the 15% increase in Januaryaccording to our colleagues from The Inform. Indeed, Engie will switch TRV customers to the Gaz Passerelle offer, which was not specified until now in the various letters sent by the State and by the supplier to prepare customers for this next changeover. In this missive, it is above all advised to anticipate the end date of the TRVs and to choose a market offer.
An increase of 50 euros per year, date
The Engie website explains that acceptance of the Passerelle offer will exceptionally be tacit. A contract that will also offer higher rates. The price per kilowatt hour, for a subscriber in the Paris region heating with gas, should be 10.68 cents. (…) However, this same subscriber currently pays 10.36 cents, specifies The Inform who has consulted letters sent to customers.
Result, an annual increase of about 50 euros, for a Parisian household that consumes 17,000 kWh per year. An amount which remains indicative because Passerelle is not a fixed price and its price can change each month upwards or downwards. According to our information, Engie has also encouraged the subscription of its 1-year Gaz Tranquillit contract which is, for the moment, indexed to the TRV and whose future is necessarily uncertain from the end of June.
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Indeed, the tariff shield on the regulated gas price has made it possible to limit the increase to 15% since January 1, whereas without consumer protection measures, the average level of regulated sales tariffs on February 1, 2023 would have been 61% higher. 8% excluding tax, or 56.7% including tax, recalled the Energy Regulation Commission (CRE) at the beginning of the month.
A future reference price proposed by CRE
To limit the risks for the consumer, when the regulated gas tariffs are abolished, the price of the offers proposed by the suppliers will very probably be fixed with an indexation on a ‘reference price’ published by the Energy Regulation Commission , explained at the start of the year MoneyVox the energy mediator Olivier Challan Belval.
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The disappearance of TRVs follows the energy-climate law of November 8, 2019 which confirmed a decision of the Council of State of 2017. The latter had then considered that the regulated gas tariff was contrary to European law insofar as they is an obstacle to the realization of a competitive market.
As a reminder, TRV or not, it is easy to change contracts or suppliers. Once you have chosen an offer and a supplier, all you have to do is sign a contract with them, specifying that it is a change. This automatically terminates the previous one.