With the war in Ukraine, the price of gas in France and Europe has increased even more drastically than expected since the beginning of 2022. As a result, gas suppliers are forced to terminate certain contracts with customers who had subscribed to a fixed price offer. .
More and more gas suppliers resilient fixed price contracts subscribed by individual customers, notes RMC. Indeed, the increase in gas prices since the beginning of the war in Ukraine has completely upset the economic situation for energy suppliers.
About twenty of them have therefore begun to terminate these contracts which are weighing on their finances. They are indeed forced to buy the gas at a very high price, butFixed contract prices prevent them from passing on this increase to customers’ bills. So they sell loss.
Customers forced to find another supplier
In April, GreenYellow, the subsidiary of Cdiscount, informed its customers that it could no longer honor the contract signed. For lack of a green light from the French authorities, however, it was unable to turn off the gas to its customers. On his side, Antargaz indicated that it would not renew the fixed price contracts when chance arrived. This concerns 500 customers for the months of March and April.
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The customers concerned must turn to another supplier, with an inevitable increase in costs. For a household of 4 people heated by gas, the bill could reach 1700 2500 euros per year, calculates RMC. In France, four million households have subscribed to regulated gas prices, which will remain capped until the end of 2022. They will not disappear until July 1, 2023.
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