ENERGY AND US – At a time of energy sobriety, Le Figaro visits the French to understand how they organize themselves to limit (or not) their consumption and save money. Despite their efforts, this family from Gard finds themselves heavily indebted to their alternative supplier.
The crises of recent years have taken their toll on the home of the Savonas. They are scattered in their family story like a string of misfortunes. The period between Grégory and Stéphanie and 2018 – a still happy year, the mere mention of which is enough to make their eyes darkened by dark circles and circumstances twinkle – was marked by the loss of their jobs, the unbearable burden of debts and the first power outages. “Since 2018, every time we wish each other a happy new year on December 31 at midnight, we always have the hope that the year after will be better than the previous one, but there is always something“, breathes Grégory Savona. The former commercial executive in a car dealership group, once richly paid, saw his salary halved when he found himself unemployed in July 2020. The first confinement got the better of his job, already very disrupted by the blockages of the Vests Yellow on the roundabout where his concession was.
Last blow to date: a surprise charge reminder from ENI, their electricity supplier, who has been asking them since December 1 for 3,890.38 euros including tax. An amount that Grégory and Stéphanie Savona, without savings, are unable to pay. The father, still annoyed, turns the screen of his smartphone and shows the six-line SMS which precipitated the young couple into a torrent of anguish from which they nevertheless believed they had finally escaped. In the fall of 2021, Grégory and Stéphanie had a…
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