“This is the purpose of the meeting we have at 4:15 p.m., to specify the quantified threshold from which we will be able to legitimately renegotiate our contract»she clarified.
The threshold for renegotiation of electricity supply contracts for craftsmen will be set on Friday afternoon during a meeting in Bercy with energy companies and should be located “around 300 euro“the megawatt-hour, said Friday the Minister Delegate for SMEs, Olivia Grégoire. This threshold will be a function of theCRE reference price“(Commission for Energy Regulation), said the Minister on BFMTV, adding that the average indicator prices issued in the third quarter of 2022 “are around 300 euros» the megawatt-hour.
“This is the purpose of the meeting we have at 4:15 p.m., to specify the quantified threshold from which we will be able to legitimately renegotiate our contract“, she added. President Emmanuel Macron announced Thursday that all craftsmen and very small businesses (TPE, less than ten employees) could renegotiate the “excessive contracts» energy supply according to terms yet to be defined. Olivia Grégoire conceded that “some small energy companies may have difficulty» for sale at a price below the planned threshold. The meeting will serve to ensure that thosewho bought at very high prices, do not find themselves, in terms of cash, on the ground“, she explained. “This will be the subject of the long meeting that we will have with the producers, but also the resellersof energy, specified the minister.
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“There is also another weapon that remains to us and (the Minister of the Economy) Bruno Le Maire has already said it to the energy suppliers: either they align themselves with what we have said and they start the renegotiation on contracts that are beyond the CRE tariff“, that is “we have one weapon left, it’s taxation“, with the possibility of a “amending finance bill (PLFR) where we will increase taxes on energy companies“, threatened the minister.