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Post by lurcher on Mar 8, 2023 22:09:40 GMT 1
Today we received an email from Edf telling us the price rise took place from 1st February 2023. We expected it to be an across the board 15% but it appears that Tempo prices have only risen, on average by about 4.5%. Rouge pleine units still look prohibitive at over 60c per unit. Bleu, creuse units are very reasonable at 9c.
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Post by pcpa on Mar 8, 2023 22:23:26 GMT 1
It is a very good deal now and I will certainly in time revert to EDF to benefit from it.
My pal calculated that even with paying the triple price on the red days he would save €300 (may have been €400) per year compared to his current tarif.
Once I have my diesel heater running reliably it will be no problem for me to cut my consumption on red days, and as you say the HP hours on those days are still considerably cheaper.
Abonnement is only a few cts more for me.
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Aardvark
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Post by Aardvark on Mar 9, 2023 10:21:51 GMT 1
I have received an email from EDF pushing the Tempo deal. I was on Tempo at my previous address and recall it being a pain in the butt trying to convince the ex partner not to use certain thirsty appliances on certain days. Not convinced changing to Tempo now is going to be worth the hassle on top of all the other things we are doing to limit our costs.
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suein56
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Post by suein56 on Mar 9, 2023 11:30:31 GMT 1
Our neighbours switched to Tempo last September and have regretted it, as in November we had 10 consecutive days of frosty nights and days, which is normally unheard of here so close to the coast. After 3 days the hot water in the chauffe-eau had run cold, they had discovered that their brilliant woodie only stayed alight, without attention, for about 3 hours at a time when it was very cold so Mr was having to get up twice in the night to refuel to keep the lounge/dining/kitchen warm.
I was doubtful over their swap at the time as they have electric underfloor heating and Mme is frileuse but don't relish being right in my belief Tempo wasn't right for them.
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Post by pcpa on Mar 9, 2023 12:42:30 GMT 1
They would not have had 10 consecutive red days, it's not allowed.
UFH is a good combination with Tempo because its a large thermal mass although electric UFH is less so, they could still run it and the chauffe eau during les heures creuses, a chauff eau only takes 5.5 hours or less to heat up from completely cold so I can't understand why they ran out of hot water.
It sounds like they may not understand how it works, if they did and were hence able to have calculated before making the switch they would have a warm glow from knowing that they are actually saving money overall even without reducing consumption on the red days during HP rather than freezing without heating or hot water.
As there is now zero financial advantage being with another supplier like Total Direct Energie who cannot offer the Tempo tarif I think this could be EDF's way of getting back customers.
I'm sure a couple of years ago Tempo was no longer available to new customers.
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suein56
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Post by suein56 on Mar 9, 2023 15:22:20 GMT 1
They would not have had 10 consecutive red days, it's not allowed.I'm sure a couple of years ago Tempo was no longer available to new customers. Read my post again .. that's not what I said. |
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Post by lurcher on Mar 9, 2023 19:20:17 GMT 1
I would expect that tempo is only suited to a small section of the population. Edf do stress that it is only suitable if you have another source of heating to replace electricity during the red days in particular. My analysis of our needs fits Tempo very well since we leave France in the second week of November and return in the last week of March therefore missing most of the red days. Our main heating is wet central heating using propane.
During our long, winter absence the gas CH is held in reserve with the thermostat set low. We use the Tempo creuse period to heat the house to a higher temperature by using five electric heaters individually controlled by high grade timers which are set to the tempo creuse period. The timers have a one month memory in case there are power losses and they even have automatic summer/winter time adjustments.
So far this experiment appears to be working but the ultimate proof will be when we step foot in the house in two weeks time and check the gas level in the citern. If it shows minimal usage the result will be as I wanted and the cost of the additional equipment will have been covered as well as an already evident big saving on heating costs.
I told my wife that if there was a very cold spell while we are living there she may have to do all the washing, ironing and oven cooking on Sundays which are guaranteed not red. Edf have already used all 22 red days this winter.
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Post by pcpa on Mar 9, 2023 20:32:38 GMT 1
They would not have had 10 consecutive red days, it's not allowed.I'm sure a couple of years ago Tempo was no longer available to new customers. Read my post again .. that's not what I said. I was aware that you did not say that but unless they were red days then they would have been saving hand over fist during a prolonged cold spell so anything but regretting it.
I think there must be some misunderstanding on their part and perhaps miscommunication especially in regard to the chauff eau.
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