Electricity: why is your bill to explode in 2022, despite the price shield?
Admittedly, regulated prices are blocked until the end of 2021.Remember: at the end of September, the government had done everything to preserve the purchasing power of the French.At the time, forecasts were tabling on an increase of 14 %.The government had blocked the 4 % increase with its "pricing shield."The difference should be taken care of by the state.
But today, forecasts are much more pessimistic...The HELLO Watt energy tender comparator sought to estimate the impact that the limitation of nuclear electricity of alternative suppliers will be limited to the household bills, and the result isNot gratifying, specifies Le Parisien.
What are the forecasts today?
An increase of 20 to 25 % is estimated, an invoice of 10 to 12 billion euros.This will necessarily impact French citizens.According to Jérémie Haddad, Ey Consulting energies expert, interviewed by LCI: "It will be funded by a drop in taxes, therefore by the state budget, by public debt and therefore by all French citizens", explain-he.
To repay the debt, it may be necessary to increase taxes, but also maintain invoices at a high level, even when the price of electricity on the wholesale market has dropped.The price of the invoice is therefore not about to decrease, recall our colleagues.
What explains this increase?
This increase in electricity prices is explained by a complex mechanism: ARENH (regulated access to historic nuclear electricity).This device allows all alternative suppliers to obtain electricity from EDF, at an advantageous rate of 42 euros per MWh.
EDF has the obligation to sell 100 TWh of its production each year to its alternative suppliers.However, for 2022, the total requests made by these suppliers amounted to 160.36 TWh, which exceeds the ceiling, fixed by law, of the quantity of electricity that EDF can sell them.
Alternative suppliers will therefore have to complete a large part of their supply on the market, where prices are particularly high, details CNEWS.
The French are therefore likely to see their expenses strongly increase as soon as support measures, such as the price shield will end.In addition, the next increase in electricity prices would take place in August 2022, said Franceinfo.
How should the particular react?
"You have to expect larger increases in the future, so the right thing to do today for an individual, it will be to choose an offer at blocked prices, which will allow you to fix its price excluding taxeselectricity and to benefit from the sharp drop in taxes scheduled for February 1, 2022, "said Sylvain Le Falher, president of Hello Watt at the microphone of Franceinfo.
Bruno Le Maire, Minister of the Economy, in any case said this Sunday, December 5 on Europe 1 that the government worked on the subject and on the way it will compensate for the increases.