The threshold for renegotiation of electricity supply contracts for craftsmen will be set on Friday afternoon during a meeting in Bercy with energy companies and should be "
around 300 euros
" per megawatt-hour, the minister said on Friday. SME delegate, Olivia Grégoire.
This threshold will be based on the "
reference price of the CRE
" (Energy Regulation Commission), said the minister on BFMTV, adding that the average indicator prices issued in the third quarter of 2022 "
are around 300 euros
" the megawatt-hour.
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“
This is the purpose of the meeting we have at 4:15 p.m., to specify the quantified threshold from which we will be able to legitimately renegotiate our contract
”, she added.
President Emmanuel Macron announced on Thursday that all craftsmen and very small businesses (TPE, less than ten employees) could renegotiate "
excessive contracts
" for the supply of energy according to terms yet to be defined.
Olivia Grégoire conceded that “
some small energy companies may have difficulty
” selling at a price below the expected threshold.
The meeting will serve to ensure that those “
who have bought at very high prices, do not find themselves, in terms of cash, on the ground
”, she explained.
This will be the subject of the long meeting that we will have with the producers, but also the resellers
” of energy, specified the minister.
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“
There is also another weapon that remains to us and (the Minister of the Economy) Bruno Le Maire has already said it to the energy suppliers: either they align themselves with what we have said and they start the renegotiation on contracts that are beyond the CRE tariff
", or "
we have one weapon left, it's taxation
", with the possibility of a "
modifying finance bill (PLFR) where we are going increase taxes on energy
companies,” threatened the minister.
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