Don’t be surprised if you receive, in the coming months, a letter from Enedis informing you of a reduction in the power of your Linky meter. According to The gallery, the government plans to conduct a full-scale test on 200,000 homes equipped with smart meters, without recourse or compensation possible. Of a duration maximum of 4 hours, this measure should extend until March 31, 2024. The households concerned will therefore have to make do with a “minimum power threshold allowing the operation of common, energy-efficient equipment” report our colleagues. We tell you what we know about this project still under discussion.
200,000 households affected by this measure
Households equipped with a Linky residential meter are affected, due to the meter’s ability to adjust electrical power according to the specific needs of the household. They will be notified in advance by mail to anticipate these off-peak periods. The precise modalities should be detailed in a decree, supplemented by an order, “from October “, according to The Parisian.
Some “fragile categories, such as patients at high vital risk (PHRV), on a ventilator for example“, will be exempt from this experiment. Others could also be. This is in any case what the consumer defense associations have requested. The selection criteria not being “not yet fully defined “.
For how long ?
The experiment provides for a reduction in the power of Linky meters.at 3 kilovolt-amperes (kVa) compared to 6 or 9 kVa usually “, indicated the Director of Uses and Territories of the French Electricity Union (UFE), Mathias Laffont, at Parisian. This would be “sufficient for the operation of a refrigerator or a freezer, but also for a hob, a radiator or an internet box“, he clarified. But we must be careful not to combine uses. This reduction in power will nevertheless be limited in time: she will not be able to exceed “four hours maximum per household ” according to the daily. The intervention of a technician on site will not be necessary: the operation can be carried out remotely.
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