Simple law of series or inexorable movement?
The parade of announced increases in regulated sales tariffs (TRV) for electricity continues.
After the calculations of the alternative supplier Planète OUI showing an increase of around thirty euros per household and per year from mid-January, another blow to the wind with the announcement by the Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) of 'a further rise.
It will take effect from August 1, to gradually ramp up and reach around fifteen euros per household and per year from 2024.
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In question, the increase of the tax of transmission of electricity, the TURPE (tariff for use of the public electricity network), within the framework of its sixth version.
However, the transmission of electricity through the network - whether it is RTE's 106,000 km of high-voltage lines, or the 1.4 million km of Enedis medium and low-voltage lines - comes at a cost. third in the composition of TRVs.
Another third is directly linked to production or purchase, as well as commercial costs.
The third third depends directly on taxation.
"TURPE 6 takes into account the maintenance but also the modernization of the networks, as well as the French and European guidelines for a successful energy transition," we told CRE.
In this context, Enedis plans to invest 69 billion euros and RTE 33 billion euros over the next fifteen years.
»Investments that must be well financed.
Partly thanks to bills paid by households.
It should be remembered, however, that electricity prices have jumped by more than 50% over the past ten years.
