TotalEnergies has ended its Essential offer and its guaranteed 5% discount to replace it with a bonus for customers who reduce their energy consumption.
For several months, due to the purchase price of energy, the market for electricity suppliers has been amorphous. Last October, on the compressor of the energy mediator, only TotalEnergies was able to compete contracts at EDF’s regulated tariff with best-priced offers of 14 to 51 euros per year, depending on the level of consumption. How? Thanks to Essential, its contract offered 100% on the Internet which guaranteed a fixed discount of 5 euros per megawatt-hour, on the price of the megawatt-hour excluding VAT of the regulated sales tariff.
This contract will be deleted as of January 1, 2023, says The Inform. Customers have been notified by email and by post since November. TotalEnergies did not respond to MoneyVox, but to online economic media, the energy supplier refutes any price increase. This commercial offer is simply replaced by a consumer bonus, more in line with the call for co-gestures for this winter in France, especially if EcoWatt alerts are active soon.
A guaranteed rebate replaced by a hypothetical bonus
Except that in reality, the price drop was guaranteed once the megawatt-hour consumed. The bonus depends on the household’s performance and… customer loyalty. To get a discount of 30,120 euros on his billit will be necessary to reduce its consumption by 5% to 20% and to be a customer since January 1, 2022, minimum.
TotalEnergies will compare the consumption data (monthly indexes) between November 2021 and March 2022 with the consumption data between November 2022 and March 2023. The following scale will be applied: from 5% reduction in consumption: 30 euros bonus; from 6% reduction: 36euros; and so on up to 20% reduction which will give rise to a bonus of 120 euros, details the company on the Internet for a few weeks. Nor will he have to terminate his TotalEnergies contract before the end of April 2023.
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The bonus is fashion this winter
At the beginning of December, the network manager RTE hailed a drop in consumption of more than 8% over one year in France. What reinforce the formulas which value the sobriety of the customers. Because TotalEnergies is not alone compensate for the fall in consumption this winter.
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At the supplier Plm, a kitty fills up as consumption drops. Any customer who has consumed less than estimated at the start of the year sees his pot directly credited with a bonus in euros corresponding to the number of kWh saved multiplied by the price per kWh excluding tax (0.1740 euro). The gain can represent 10% of the annual bill.
At Wekiwi, on on offers a bonus – not quantified – if the user does not exceed the estimated reference consumption when drawing up the contract. Another option, Alterna resells on the market (and at the price of this one) the electricity not consumed, if your reduction of consumption exceeds 10%. The benefit is then returned to you at least in part.
According to the Hello Watt comparator, lowering the heating temperature by one degree reduces your bill by 7%, lowering the temperature of the water heater between 55 and 60C saves 20% on the annual cost of hot water, and installing a thermostat reduces the heating bill by 15%. Good to know, closing your shutters every night reduces consumption by up to 5% per year.