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Energy crisis: the explosion in the price of electricity threatens the future of a grain cooperative

2022-10-06T15:33:23.209Z


DECRYPTION - The largest 100% organic cereal cooperative in Normandy, Biocer, risks technical unemployment in the face of changes made by its energy supplier Enercoop.


It is the largest 100% organic cereal cooperative in Normandy.

Biocer, with its 280 member farms and its 27 employees, is now on borrowed time.

As of October 16, its energy supplier, Enercoop,

“100% renewable, local and citizen electricity”

, as its website claims, is unilaterally changing the rules of the game.

“We were informed at the end of July by Enercoop that it no longer practiced contracts without a commitment period, like the one we had with them,

relates Frédéric Goy, director of Biocer whose head office is located in Marcilly-la-Campagne in the Eure.

Their new fee schedule is prohibitive.

We will go from an annual bill of 285,000 euros to 1.130 million euros.

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“We will not be able to pay such an amount, worries the manager, in search of an emergency solution.

I consulted other suppliers, such as

Eni

or EDF, but their proposals are not the best.

We are still waiting for a better offer from Enercoop.”

“We are going to have to manage our day-to-day expenses”

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Source: lefigaro

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