The inflation observed for several weeks has suddenly affected the purchasing power of many people. Whether it is to save on daily expenses or to align your ethical values with your consumption, you have certainly already thought about changing your electricity supplier.
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Now, thanks to online simulation tools, a few minutes are enough to carry out a precise search among some thirty energy suppliers. The role of these comparators is to suggest the most economical solution according to your own needs. Electricity supply contracts are in most cases non-binding.
Subscribing to a competing service is a simple, fast and free procedure. There are no cancellation fees or on-site technical intervention to consider in order to make this change. Therefore, you can choose an alternative and above all cheaper offer at any time compared to what you pay today.
Change electricity contract, why not?
Many criteria are taken into account when estimating your energy consumption, for example, the nature of your home: an apartment does not require the same resources as a single-family house with a swimming pool, its surface area, the number of people occupy this dwelling — logically, the more inhabitants there are, the higher the electricity needs will be — and the heating and water heating system.
From these elements, it is quite possible to make an indicative inventory of your current expenses and to obtain an overview of your charges if you subscribe to a competing service.
Namely that a third of electricity consumption in France is linked to the residential sector. It is the EDF group which specifies it in a press release on the key figures about domestic uses. A significant share is also allocated to heating, major household appliances and multimedia devices.
However, although EDF is the leading electricity supplier in France, other alternative distributors have emerged and are redistributing the cards in an increasingly competitive market. This is where electricity supplier comparators come in, to find the best formula according to your consumption with the aim of paying less and having a contract more consistent with your needs.
What are the advantages of using an energy comparator?
Two complementary strategies allow you to reduce your energy budget: reduce your consumption (and in particular choose less energy-consuming appliances) and opt for a contract more suited to your real consumption.
This is increasingly part of the reflexes to have before selecting a service or a product: compare electricity offers is useful for discovering the most competitive formulas as well as alternative solutions that could save you some money:
- have a greater vision of the various offers present on the market;
- filter your searches according to the criteria that are important to you: greener electricity that uses renewable resources, the mode and place of production, the cheapest price per kW, more transparency from the supplier, etc.
- change models to find the one that suits you best. There are 3 types of scales. Some distributors (such as EDF for example) are subject to regulated tariffs, the amount of which has been imposed by the government. Others are more free and apply an indexed tariff or a fixed tariff. The first changes in proportion to the regulated tariff while the second guarantees an invariable rate.
- to get the best deals in real time. The energy market evolves quickly and the supplier who offered the best price last month is not necessarily the same as you read this. The comparators update their database, which offers the possibility of having the most accurate evaluation when you carry out your research.
- Comparators very often offer access to a simulator tool to estimate your consumption
Another significant advantage: comparators very often offer access to a simulator tool to estimate your consumption and, therefore, the approximate price you will pay by choosing a particular distributor.
Our advice? Bring a previous energy bill to compare more precisely with your current expenses. This will allow you to realize the possible benefits that you could obtain by selecting an alternative offer.
Opening up to competition has had the effect of multiplying offers and bringing out competing services. Fortunately, online comparators were created to save valuable time by helping us to precisely target our expectations and concretely appropriate solutions.
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