Even with the promised help, electricity remains a headache for VSEs
While greeting the bakers, the head of state said that all artisans and very small enterprises that are not on the regulated tariff (because the electricity they need is more than 36 KVA) and have significant increases in their bills can “negotiate again” in January. “excessive contracts” in gas and electricity.
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After a meeting with electricity suppliers, Bercy announced the next day that VSEs with contracts between July 1 and December 31 could revise their contracts so that the price of a megawatt hour does not exceed 280 euros.
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Two weeks after these announcements, discussions continue, but the terms of the threshold are far from settled.
How many VSEs will be able to renegotiate their contracts?
600,000 VSEs are potentially affected, but this is a far cry from the number of VSEs who would benefit from this cap, as not all of them would need it. 600,000 is the number of non-regulated VSEs, but this does not mean that all 600,000 have renegotiated their contracts between 1 July 2022 and 31 December.
COMPARIN company appropriate where the report is located. It has less than 10 employees and had to change supplier because it canceled the secret update that was previously done every November.
Christelle Comparin reads a letter sent to her by her electricity supplier in January 2023.
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His account increased from 3200 euros to 12 thousand euros. This is much less than many companies, because the company’s electricity costs are low, its 120 m2 building has an ECD classified as A. But this is still an increase of 6,000 euros on the gasoline bill in 2022. 2021.
Why can only contracts signed during this period be revised?
Because it was at this time that the highest price of electricity in the markets led to an increase in the offered prices.
CRE report on this topic.
The problem for VSEs is that in order to benefit from this ceiling, they must report to their suppliers, fill out a certificate (
can be downloaded from here) and send. Comparin CEO Christelle Comparin is also president of Lot et Garonne’s CPME, which she fears many VSEs are unaware of and don’t enquire.
He took a long time to calculate the average electricity price he would pay in 2023 to see if it would be above €280 per MWh. This is explained in the report.
Who will pay the bill? How much ?
“Suppliers have agreed to guarantee all small businesses an average tariff below €280 per megawatt hour.“, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire triumphantly declared at the end of the meeting on Friday, January 6.
But who will pay the difference between this ceiling and the price VSEs originally had to pay in their contracts? We don’t know. On January 16, the office of Olivia Grégoire, the Ministerial Representative for SMEs, held a telephone press briefing to answer questions from the press, but each time the question was asked about the terms of this “joint effort”, the answer remained the same. :negotiations are underway“.
We don’t even know how many VSEs will be affected because energy suppliers don’t ask a company for its turnover and size when they give a contract, and so they don’t know in the contracts that they could. Grant in the second half of 2022, how much VSE is eligible for this system.
At Bercy’s request, suppliers are in the process of raising their estimate, but this is definitely an estimate, and so we don’t know the total number a fortiori. Still not, Olivia Grégoire’s office admits.
Therefore, it is not possible to determine the amount the state will have to pay for this new aid, which will be added to all that was planned and voted in the 2023 fiscal bill. Regardless, the cost is over! ! and we will soon have to cut costs, warned Bruno Le Maire at his request (the subject of the following column).
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For Anode, the National Association of Retail Energy Operators, which represents 15 suppliers from TotalENERGIE to ENERCOOP, called the commercial gestures “share your efforts”
so it is not possible at this stage.
It is even more important to know what the state has committed to, because in order to move quickly, energy suppliers must apply this 280 euro threshold to VSEs that require it and then receive compensation from the state. .
