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Post by lurcher on Jan 24, 2024 9:30:16 GMT 1
The price of domestic electricity in France will rise by about 10% in February 2024. Customers with HP/HC will be hit the hardest but only marginally. It is still much lower than UK prices.
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Post by jardiniere on Jan 24, 2024 9:34:24 GMT 1
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Post by mysty on Jan 24, 2024 9:42:23 GMT 1
When prices sky rocketed in the UK last year Macron said the price rises in France would be in stages not sure they are needed now though but its a good bit of extra income for the state. As I said to ardvark on another thread. By the time we have lived with our eyes open for long enough to understand what is actually going on, we are too old to do anything about it.  |
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Post by Polarengineer on Jan 24, 2024 10:10:30 GMT 1
If you go to the EDF site and scroll down to the bottom, you should find a link to tariffs and see the different cost of power for nighttime use (from 2200 to 0600 - HC) and daytime use HP 0600 to 2200. I recently changed to the Tempo contract and with careful management have been Able to reduce costs significantly. It helps if you have a wood fire for the red colored days and a gas hob for the kettle. The EDF website is a pain, like most French sites. |
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Post by suein56 on Jan 24, 2024 10:57:29 GMT 1
Some of us have different periods of charge during the day - heures pleines - full price - (for us) from 05h30 in the morning til 21h30 at night and then a cheaper rate - heures creuses - until 05h30 next day. This used to be a good thing to have but now the differences in charges between the two rates are much less advantageous than years ago. As PE says it is described on the EDF website.
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Post by lurcher on Jan 24, 2024 12:39:49 GMT 1
Although the previous posts give quite a detailed account of HP/HC, the simple answer is Heures Pleine/ Heures Creuse. Sorry is these are mis-spelt. It is regarding the use of cheaper electricity during off peak times. |
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Post by crabtree on Jan 24, 2024 16:25:31 GMT 1
Some of us have different periods of charge during the day - heures pleines - full price - (for us) from 05h30 in the morning til 21h30 at night and then a cheaper rate - heures creuses - until 05h30 next day. This used to be a good thing to have but now the differences in charges between the two rates are much less advantageous than years ago. As PE says it is described on the EDF website.
For us HC 01:00 to 07:00 and Midday to 14:00. HP outside these times.
I am not with EDF, so can't comment on their website.
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Post by elsie on Jan 24, 2024 18:10:09 GMT 1
It is the regulated EDF Tarif Bleu electricity prices which are referred to in the announcement which will increase from 1 Feb 2024. The next increase will be Feb 2025 rather than Aug 2024. The base rate will increase by 8.6%, the heures pleines/creuses by 9.6% and I think I've seen mention of the Tempo by 10.1%. I assume there will be changes in the other EDF "market tariffs" and those of other electricity supply companies. From the quick check of a couple of other suppliers, neither had their Feb 2024 tariffs online yet. I assume these comparison web sites (French government and Que Choisir) will be updated in a week or so? www.energie-info.fr and comparateur-offres.energie-info.fr/compte/profil |
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Post by jardiniere on Jan 26, 2024 9:43:33 GMT 1
I recently changed to the Tempo contract and with careful management have been Able to reduce costs significantly. We had Tempo when we first moved to France. Chapeau to you for being well organised to take advantage of it. I wasn't! |
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Post by lurcher on Jan 26, 2024 22:29:56 GMT 1
We also chose to use Tempo. This is only because electricity is a cheap option compared with propane and because we are not in France for five winter months. I set the heaters to come on only during the HC period and the programmed timers even adjust for clock changes twice a year. As we are probably not there for the red days and maybe most of the white days it is not difficult to organise our life there regarding electricity consumption.
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