“French consumers will not see any catch-up on their electricity bill in 2023”, promised Bruno Le Maire during a press briefing this Monday afternoon while recalling that “electricity prices will be capped at 4% throughout the year 2022”. Faced with soaring prices, the government set up a tariff shield on energy at the end of 2021, in particular on electricity, the price of which is therefore capped at 4% in 2022.
This price freeze, which limits the profits of electricity suppliers, was to be offset by an increase in the bill for the French in the years to come. According to information published in Le Figaro on April 4, this should result in a 7 to 8% increase in the tariff in 2023.
A prospect that worries consumer associations. “Such a catch-up is very likely to induce a stratospheric rise in the price of electricity at the beginning of 2023”, worried in a press release the association for the defense of consumers Consumption, housing and living environment (CLCV).
Bruno Le Maire therefore wants to be reassuring and undertakes that there will be no catch-up in 2022 and 2023. It remains to be seen how electricity suppliers will be compensated for the loss of income they suffer and who will finance this cost of the tariff shield. “There will be a need for additional financing in 2023”, because “the prices of electricity have rather evolved upwards”, has already admitted Bruno Le Maire. This funding requirement, “around 2 billion euros”, “will be financed by the finance bill that we will examine at the start of the next school year, next October, for 2023”, he promised. .
