How to end up in the jungle of electricity suppliers?

There are just over 100 electricity suppliers active in the French territory of which historic suppliers, local distribution companies and alternative suppliers are.More specifically concerning the residential market for individuals, around forty suppliers are identified.

Since the opening of the energy market to competition in 2007, the list of alternative suppliers has continued to lie down.

Without making the exhaustive list of all suppliers, some have remained mono-energy while others are able to offer diversified energy solutions (green electricity, natural gas, biogas, solar panels, self-consumption, etc..))

Les fournisseurs proposent généralement des offres avec des tarifs variables (prix du kWh indexé sur le marché de gros)) ou fixes (prix du kWh ne fluctuant pas durant une période donnée)).The validity duration of commercial offers often oscillate between 12 months and 36 months.Finally, the price per kWh HT periodically benefits from more or less important discounts, ranging from 2 to 13%, or even more.

Among the 10 best known operators, we find: Engie, Eni, EDF, Ekwateur, Enercoop, Sowee, Vattenfall, Planet yes, Totalenergies, Mega Energie.

To facilitate the selection of offers available on the market, there is an electricity supplier comparator on the Internet that allows you to sort through a relevant way.

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According to the latest report of the retail market observatory in the first quarter of 2021*, the development of electricity market offers experienced a significant increase in the first quarter of 2021 with 505.000 new residential customers (compared to 357.000 new customers in market offer in the fourth quarter of 2020)).

If we look more precisely at the data, it appears that alternative suppliers have won over 303.000 sites in total during the first quarter of 2021 while the historic suppliers won 202.000 new customers.

Services by type of supplier on the residential segment shows that the balance was reached in March 2021 between alternative suppliers versus historic suppliers (see table below)).

In France, the number of housing connected to electricity in individuals exceed 33.5 million. Au 31 mars 2021, un tiers des sites résidentiels (soit 11,1 millions)) étaient en offre de marché.

Concerning the evolution of the annual cost now.The amount of the invoice for a customer consuming 2.400 kWh of electricity at Blea Base ** with a subscribed power of 6 KVA increased from 492 euros in February 2020 to 507 euros in February 2021.Another example: for a customer whose consumption is 8,500 kWh, divided into 54 % full hours and 46 % off -peak hours, at the blue HP/HC ** rate with a 9 kVA counter, the annual amount of the invoice goes1.502 € (février 2020)) à 1.€ 551 (February 2021)).