2024-01-14 10:37:42
The announced increase in the electricity bill from February 1 did not fail to provoke a reaction from the UFC-Que Choisir, which denounces a decision unrelated to the costs of energy production in France, and highlights We are already warning of the dramatic consequences of a revaluation of prices on households.
Through a press release published on its site on Friday January 12, the consumer association UFC-Que Choisir spoke out against the announced increases in the electricity bill for the year 2024, the first of which should take place on February 1. next. “The UFC-Que Choisir today denounces the prospect of a new increase in the price of electricity of 10% on February 1, without link to the real costs of electricity production in France, and is alarmed the dramatic consequences it would have on households,” she warns.
The call to Gabriel Attal
Noting that the regulated price for the sale of electricity has already undergone, in two years, an increase of 30%, which has severely affected the purchasing power of households, it is now calling for a conciliatory and reassuring decision at all. new Prime Minister for “show your willingness to work to preserve the purchasing power of consumers”. To do this, the UFC-Que Choisir asks Gabriel Attal to “freeze the increase in the regulated electricity sales price, or at least by limiting it, so that it does not exceed 2.5%, i.e. the inflation expected in 2024”as estimated by the Banque de France.
Avoid a heavy reduction in purchasing power
With supporting figures, the association points out that with the new 10% increase projected by the energy regulation commission (CRE) from February 1, the average annual bill for a household in regulated tariff (TRVE) would increase to nearly 2,235 euros, compared to 1,604 euros a year ago, an increase of 39.3%. A rate which is equivalent to a loss of purchasing power of nearly 630 euros. The amputation could even reach and “exceed 1,000 euros for residents of particularly energy-intensive thermal sieves”at the moment when “many households today give up heating due to the price of electricity or have to choose between heating and eating”alerts the association.
Three good reasons to postpone this increase
The latter supports its request to Gabriel Attal on at least three titles which make this increase in taxation “unjustified”. UFC-Que Choisir first particularly mentions the general context of inappropriate inflation. Furthermore, the increase “would be all the less explainable since the costing of the TRVE by the CRE already allows the Government to make significant savings”, finds the association. She also sees this increase as a paradoxical measure “fall away” with “the Government’s energy policy aims for massive electrification of uses”.
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