They were to be a lever for the energy transition for the country, while allowing individuals to make savings on their bills.
They are these so-called self-explanatory offers, which energy suppliers offer to their subscribers to encourage them – via price adjustments – to consume less when demand is too high, for example in the evening in the middle of winter.
They have now attracted 5% of the 20 million households subscribing to electricity, or a good million.
But with inflation, the economic advantage promised by these offers - including EDF's peak-off-peak hours -
is it still there?
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“For this to be interesting, you have to shift a sufficiently large part of your consumption,” explains Maxime de la Raudière, deputy general manager of Selectra, an online comparator of energy offers.
However, this share varies depending on the characteristics of the offer, the subscription and especially the prices of each time slot.
» Shift your consumption?
This involves, for example, temporarily turning down the heating, starting the washing machine or dishwasher once night falls, changing the programming of the hot water tank or even that of charging the electric car,
over a period defined in advance.
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