Intolerable. New tariff bamboo blow. The two main consumer associations, UFC-Que Choisir and CLCV, reacted sharply through their presidents to Bruno Le Maire’s announcement of an almost 10% increase in electricity prices on February 1 .
The electricity bill on peak/off-peak rates will increase by 9.8% on February 1 and on basic rates of 8.6%. This means that for 97% of French households the increase will be below 10%, announced Sunday evening on TF1 the Minister of Economy and Finance, Bruno Le Maire, who now also manages the energy portfolio. in the Attal government.
This is so unacceptable that it’s scandalous.
A new tariff bamboozle which results in an increase in the regulated tariff of no less than 44% in 2 years, annoys Marie-Amandine Stvenin, president of UFC-Que Choisir, in a ticket published this Monday, January 22, the day after the minister’s appearance on TF1 at 8 p.m. I am furthermore revolted by the fact that the minister seems, through its resolute action to the detriment of consumers’ purchasing power, to consider it normal for the French to pay so dearly for their electricity., she continues. (…) I ask him: is it admissible that more than half of the price of electricity paid by consumers corresponds to the extremely high prices on international markets (themselves set according to the price… of gas), even though the electricity production fleet in France is very largely carbon-free and displays much lower production costs? I answer for him: no. This is so unacceptable that it is scandalous.
Be careful, enough is enough
The president of the CLCV, Jean-Yves Mano, spoke at the microphone of Franceinfo, and his intervention is in the same tone: Be careful, enough is enough! The president of the CLCV believes that this increase could have been postponed to summer 2024 or at least after the winter season rather than hitting in the heart of winter.
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MoneyVox / BL / January 2024