The boss of TotalEnergies Patrick Pouyanné said he was ready on Wednesday to
“make a discount”
on the electricity supply contracts concluded in 2022 at a high price with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), estimating that 6,000 customers were concerned.
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“We have a certain number of SMEs which are affected by prices that are too high, contracts signed between July and December, and we are going to offer them the possibility of renegotiating a contract”
with a price of around 280 euros per megawatt hour, said said Patrick Pouyanné in an interview with BFM Business broadcast on Wednesday evening, referring to an alignment with the guaranteed rate for very small businesses (TPE), announced in early January.
An “equivalent” price to TPEs
“We are going to offer TotalEnergies customers to have a price equivalent to TPEs
,” he said.
The rate for the group's SME customers will thus be aligned with that guaranteed to VSEs which was announced at the beginning of January following negotiations between the government and the electricity suppliers.
Faced with the explosion of energy bills for many craftsmen and small companies, the executive had urged energy suppliers to renegotiate contracts with price increases deemed
“prohibitive
”.
Patrick Pouyanné assured that there had been
"a real debate last year when electricity prices rose very, very high from July (...).
Some electricity suppliers have decided not to award contracts anymore because they found the prices to be too high.
There was a debate with the government telling us
'
No, no, you have to keep signing contracts
'
”
.
