has your bill been artificially inflated by 10% this year?

The consumer defense association CLCV has asked the Energy Regulation Commission (CRE) to review its calculation of the regulated sales tariff (TRV) for the year 2022. around 10%.

The consumer association CLCV is calling on the Energy Regulation Commission (CRE) to review its calculation of the regulated electricity sales tariff (TRV) for 2022. We are asking for a tariff catch-up the fall on the TRVdue to the manipulations of certain suppliers who deliberately abused the mechanism of access to nuclear electricity, explained Franois Carlier, the general delegate of the CLCV association, Capital. He even said he was ready to go before the administrative judge to obtain this price reduction.

But where do these manipulations come from? Each year, EDF is obliged to sell part of its production at a reduced price to alternative electricity suppliers. This volume of production depends on the needs of the supplier and therefore on the customer portfolio. However, according to the CLCV, these suppliers lied by exaggerating their needs.

Price of electricity: an energy supplier subject to an investigation

A lower price increase than announced?

According to the market data available to us, we believe that these requests were overestimated by 15 to 20 TWh. This means that the cost of the increase calculated by CRE, and applied to the TRV, has been overestimated. Which lead to an illegitimate increase in the regulated rate, explained François Carlier. An increase that he estimates between 7 and 10%.

But what would this change for our bills in 2023? After a 4% cap on the rise in electricity prices in 2022, they will increase by 15% on February 1, 2023. That is an average increase in the monthly bill of 20 euros per month for those who heat themselves with electricity.

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The increase announced for 2023 could therefore be reduced to 5% or 8%, according to the CLCV. In the letter sent to the Commission, it therefore asks for the fall to be caught up in February 2023. The association also proposes that this catch-up be done in two stages: a deposit in February and the balance of the catch-up in July after the results of the checks .

And if the CRE opposes the catch-up, we will go to the administrative court, added the association’s general delegate.