Gas, oil and electricity: the three sisters of energy take advantage of winter to drive up prices.
Oil exceeds $80 a barrel on international markets.
Gas prices have broken records in recent months, reaching a peak of 180 euros per megawatt hour (1,000 kilowatt hours) in December.
Although it has since fallen, it is still four times more expensive today than a year ago.
The electricity also did its thing.
On the wholesale market, its price reached unprecedented levels in December and still remains more than three times higher than at the start of 2021.
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Faced with such increases, and a few months before the presidential election, the government could not sit idly by.
On gas, it froze prices from September 30.
Five months later, the avoided increase amounts to more than 66.5% for consumers.
However, this is only a postponement.
This increase will be caught up as soon as the prices start to fall, probably at the end…
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