To encourage households to control their energy consumption, the government and EDF have set up bonuses this winter. Discounts are notably planned for the Tempo offer that the energy supplier hopes to sell to 5 million customers currently at the regulated tariff.
This is one of the flagship measures for the household component of the sobriety plan presented this Thursday by the government. In order to encourage them to control their energy consumption, a sober bonus system on gas and electricity bills has been negotiated with a few market players. While Engie and TotalEnergies will be able to pay bonuses to good students, the State has bet on EDF to transform its Tempo offer.
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The Tempo offer is called tariff erasure. Knowing that a Tempo day begins at 6 a.m. and ends the next day at 6 a.m. on the basis of the Peak hours (6 a.m.-10 p.m.) – Off-peak hours (10 p.m.-6 a.m.) system, this contract makes it possible to vary the electricity rates according to the days of the year and the hours of use.
300 days a year, you pay little, around 8 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh) in off-peak hours (HC) and 12 cents in peak hours (HP), depending on the prices announced on the EDF website. There are also 43 white days between September 1 and August 31 where the price is between 11 cents (HC) and 16.5 cents (HC).
But 22 days a year are red and you pay full pot! 55 cents per kWh, ie three times the level of the current regulated electricity tariffs at peak times, but only 13 cents at off-peak hours.
Bonuses between 10 and 41%
And if only 220,000 households succumbed to the Tempo offer at the end of 2021, EDF hopes to attract 5 million out of a portfolio of 22 million customers at the regulated tariff. For this, EDF offers a real bonus with regard to the prices charged for the Base option (17 cents per kWh) and for the classic off-peak option where the price per kilowatt hour is 18 cents in full hours and 14 cents in hours dig.
With Tempo, you benefit from a reduction of 30% on the price for peak hours and 41% on the price including tax for off-peak hours on the 300 blue days of the year. On blank days (37 days) the discount is 10 and 24%. Finally, red days – which may rise to 30 per year compared to 22 previously – the price remains higher, up to three times during peak hours. In off-peak hours, it remains 16% cheaper. There can be up to 5 consecutive red days (from Monday to Friday if there is no holiday in the week) if the cold period lasts, specifies EDF.
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The minimum subscription to take advantage of Tempo corresponds to a Linky meter power of 9kWA, i.e. a price of 14.82 euros per month, a little less than the 15.26 euros for a subscription to the peak hours/off-peak hours option and a little more expensive than the 14.18 euros for the Basic option. According to government calculations, a family that spends an average of 1,500 euros per year could thus save up to 450 euros by switching to the Tempo offer.
Current Tempo customers reduce their electricity consumption by an average of 23% during red days and 95% of them play the game, explains EDF. He is informed the day before at 11 a.m. of the color of the next day via his Tempo calendar, by SMS or email, by calling the voice server or by consulting the EDF & Moi application.
Note that the regulated electricity tariff will increase by 15% on February 1, 2023 after having been contained to 4% since October 2021 by the government of Jean Castex then Elisabeth Borne.