Your next electricity bill has a very unpleasant surprise in store for you if you have chosen this pricing option which is supposed to be more economical than the traditional subscription.
For two years now, the cost of energy has exploded all over the world, and France is no exception to the phenomenon. If gas prices have reached dizzying heights, electricity prices have not been spared either. Limited for a time by the tariff shield mechanism, put in place by the Government at the height of the energy crisis, the rise in electricity prices for individuals is starting again and will hit many households in power hard. purchasing price already strongly eroded by galloping inflation and stagnant wages.
In fact, since 1er February 2024, the regulated electricity prices in France, marketed by the main French producer and supplier EDF, have been revised and the increases are significant to say the least. Wanting to be reassuring, the Government announced increases limited to a maximum of 10% of the overall bill for the French. Unfortunately, this promise will not be kept for all users and some will experience much greater increases.
As indicated by EDF on a page from its website, if customers subscribing to the Base and Off-Peak options will see the increases contained (barely) to a maximum of 10%, those having subscribed to the Tempo option will on the other hand experience an average increase of 14.2% in the amount of their bill and may even pay more depending on their energy consumption profile. More than 500,000 households are affected, the number of subscribers to this option having increased from 200,000 to 500,000 in 2023!
The Tempo option indeed applies differentiated prices per kWh according to the time of day, on the same principle as the Off-Peak Hours option, but also according to the days of the year, with three distinct price bands, Blue, White and Red, ranging from the cheapest to the most expensive. And according to the price list for 2024 published by EDFthe price increases per kWh on these bands and in particular the lowest ones promise to be steep: for the off-peak rates of three bands, there are increases of 22.73%, 19.26% and 18.07% of the price of kWh compared to August 2023 which awaits customers!
Enough to disillusion those who had subscribed to these price offers which were intended to be virtuous and advantageous. In order to avoid unpleasant surprises, it is strongly recommended to consult EDF’s 2024 price list now and to analyze your consumption during the day and the year, in order to return to the Base option if we are not able to shift our consumption to the least expensive ranges of the Tempo option!