A discreet increase is coming for household portfolios.
It’s a discreet increase, about which no one has spoken out. However, around 10 million French people will be affected. In a few days, their electricity bill will increase. If a 10% reduction was promised as of February 1, a large portion will have to pay more and very soon. But contrary to current news, this is not a political decision: it is not a tax or the cost of electricity that varies, but a much more discreet line, to which no one pays attention. attention.
When you receive your electricity bill, only one element is really of interest: the total amount including tax to be paid to Engie, EDF or even TotalEnergies. Few French people care to really know what the amount to be paid corresponds to. Only some control electricity consumption. However, on the next invoice, it will be very appropriate to check one in particular.
From November 1, the price of electricity will increase. Or, more precisely, that of the maintenance costs of the electricity network. All French people pay them without realizing it. These costs are in fact distributed across the various lines of the invoice: subscription, consumption and transport tariff contribution. These are sums that suppliers must pay to managers (that is to say, mainly, Engie and others to Enedis). However, suppliers do not take this money out of their pockets: they apply this due to customer invoices. This is called the Tariff for using the public electricity network (TURPE).
On November 1, its amount will increase by 4.81%. Suppliers could have not reflected this increase on the invoice. However, Engie announces The Internet user that “unfortunately we have no other choice than to pass on the increase in this TURPE to our customers given the regulatory and financial constraints.” TotalEnergies did not respond to us.
Not all French people are affected by this increase on November 1st. These are those who have a contract with market offers or a “fixed price”. On this last type of contract, only the price of electricity is fixed: not that of taxes and additional tariffs. For contracts with a regulated sales price or offers indexed to this regulated price, the increase in this price will only take place on February 1st.
To estimate the amount of the future bill, simply take the last payment received and read the line below “Total electricity including tax”. This, entitled “including XX euros excluding tax paid to your distributor for the delivery of electricity” (on Engie invoices in particular), is the one which will increase by 4.81%.
The mechanics of calculating between VAT and VAT are a bit complex but, for example, on an invoice for 180 euros which includes 27 euros of delivery, the total will only increase by around… 1 euro. A painless rise. But an increase nonetheless, which comes after several months of announcements of reductions in electricity prices…