The government had committed to this from the fall of 2021. After the re-election of Emmanuel Macron as President of the Republic on April 24, the “tariff shield aimed at protecting households from rising energy prices for the year 2022 still raises concerns. This is the reason why the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire hastily called a meeting with journalists, Monday, May 30 at midday, to confirm a promise from the start of the year: the device containing the increase in the regulated electricity sales tariff at 4% (instead of 35%, all taxes included) will be “maintained throughout the year” in order to “protect the French from soaring prices” energy, and “there will be no catch-up on [la] electricity bill “ consumers in 2023.
On Monday morning, the consumer defense association CLCV had expressed its fear that, on the contrary, the device was only a “mirage “. She feared a “tariff catch-up” by 8% in the coming months, as well as“a stratospheric rise in the price of electricity at the beginning of 2023”. These concerns, relayed in the morning by The Parisian and RTLwere based on a deliberation taken on March 31 by the Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE), and relating to advance payments to be paid to suppliers with less than one million residential customers.
At the heart of the campaign for the legislative elections of June 12 and 19, the subject of inflation and purchasing power also prompted Marine Le Pen to react strongly, as of Monday morning. “An 8% increase in electricity is well planned by the government”, the former far-right presidential candidate wrote on Twitter. “I had warned the French that Emmanuel Macron was lying to them and would increase their bill after the elections. It will be the same for gas and fuel. »
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Contacted by The worldCRE indicates however that it “has not proposed an 8% rate increase”. “At this stage no decision has been made”, indicates the independent administrative authority, whose mission is to propose to the government changes to the regulated electricity sales tariff, the “blue tariff” of EDF, to which the majority of French households still subscribe. The offers of alternative suppliers are adapted accordingly. Two periods make it possible to revise it, one in February, the other in August. For February 2023, “it will depend on market prices for the next seven months, which we don’t know at the moment” and “government decisions”adds the regulatory commission.
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