Lehaut Posted August 9 Share Posted August 9 Am I correct in thinking that the price of electricity in France is reducing in the near future? We are with Total Energy and have been since we bough our flat in 2016. In an ideal world they would automatically put us on the lower tariff - some hope. We are getting adverts for Tariff "Vert" and fixed for 2 years. Are there keen observers of the market who could give a steer (no cannot install Solar Panels, wind farms or harness the Loire that runs past the garden!!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/actualites/A17529 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lehaut Posted August 10 Author Share Posted August 10 Thanks NormanH, but no mention of this? https://www.choisir.com/energie/actualites/205011/prix-de-lelectricite-la-promesse-dune-baisse-de-10-a-15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 Isn't that one of those sites that feed you tempting offers, but when you try to get the details they want your number so that they can bombard you with unwanted calls? And of course all the promises they mention were made for election purposes by people who are unlikely to be there very soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted August 11 Share Posted August 11 Sorry. Looking again that seems rather curt. Don't forget however that France has had artificially LOW electricity prices in comparison to her neighbours, and given the lamentable state of the National Debt this may be an area where adjustments will be made 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harnser Posted August 11 Share Posted August 11 On 09/08/2024 at 09:07, Lehaut said: Am I correct in thinking that the price of electricity in France is reducing in the near future? We are with Total Energy and have been since we bough our flat in 2016. In an ideal world they would automatically put us on the lower tariff - some hope. We are getting adverts for Tariff "Vert" and fixed for 2 years. Are there keen observers of the market who could give a steer (no cannot install Solar Panels, wind farms or harness the Loire that runs past the garden!!). The best and most easily understood guide to electricity supply and cost in France is Selectra. And it's in english if you need it. https://en.selectra.info/energy-france/guides/electricity/tariffs#what-is-included-in-the-electricity-bill-in-france 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lehaut Posted August 12 Author Share Posted August 12 Thanks for the site and the thoughts on debt recovery! As a start, the sale of French electricity to other countries so far this years has been exceptional! https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/france-track-smash-clean-electricity-export-record-2024-2024-04-10/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harnser Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 The French grid has a surplus of solar generated power, if you look at the UK graphs for imported power from france it starts at about 6 am and carries on through the day until about 7 pm. There are discussions about changing the heures creuse hours here from overnight to middle of the day, whether those hours will be permanent or changeable summer/winter hasn't been mentioned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin963 Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 (edited) Interesting that in spite of la canicule that we keep seeing on French TV (here in Devon it is cool and cloudy and breezy, we have yet to have any sort of real summer) the demand from the grid in France is currently 48 GW, pretty low, given that in past canicules the air con has been flat out everywhere and the grid under considerable pressure (and that was before the nuclear station outages a couple of years ago). I seem to remember one summer when the demand was well over 80 GW on a couple of days.... Edited August 12 by Martin963 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 https://www.marianne.net/economie/economie-francaise/prix-de-lelectricite-quand-le-maire-deguise-en-geste-tarifaire-une-hausse-de-taxe 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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