While the regulated electricity tariff will increase in February 2024, EDF is launching Zen Flex, a so-called tariff cancellation formula based on the model of its Tempo contract. Should we let ourselves be seduced?
Regulated electricity prices should rise both in February and then in August in 2024. If the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire has committed that the increase will not exceed 10%, the 21 million customers at the TRV at EDF are waiting. Should we change our offer this winter? The electricity market is picking up again at the end of the year and the number of market offer contracts offered by suppliers has increased in recent weeks.
To avoid being overwhelmed by alternative suppliers, EDF is launching Zen Flex, based on the model of its Tempo contract and its 220,000 subscribers. This is a so-called tariff cancellation formula, that is to say that electricity is very expensive at certain times of tension on the network. It is therefore in your interest to reduce your consumption, otherwise your bill will explode.
Sober days three times more expensive
With Zen Flex, there are 345 Eco Days per year with 17 off-peak hours (compared to 8 hours usually), part of which is in the afternoon, a rate 20% cheaper than the TRV and 20 Sobriety Days, excluding weekends and public holidays between October 15 and April 15 o peak hours are billed 3 times more expensive than the TRV. If the principle is identical, the name changes compared to Tempo which offered 300 blue days per year where you pay little, 43 white days at the TRV level and 22 days red days where the price is also multiplied by three.
Price level, the most expensive days (red and sobriety) cost the same price (73.24 cents/kWh) for Zen Flex and Tempo when the white and blue days of the latter are less expensive than in the contractual offer of the former. Furthermore, for an average power of 9 kVa, the monthly subscription price is 16 euros, one euro more than TRV and 55 cents more than Tempo.
Zen Flex also offers bonus days with rewards if the customer reduces their consumption but specifies on its website that they cannot commit in advance on the number in the year because they depend on the situation of the electrical system, nor on the amount of the reward (at least maximum a few euros per year). There may be no Bonus Days offered in a year.
Samuel AUFFRAY
After studying political science in Paris 2 and journalism at the CFJ, Samuel Auffray worked for L’Obs in the field of… Read more
MoneyVox / SA / October 2023