Enedis customers who are not equipped with a Linky Electric Meter will be invoked as of this Friday, August 1 to “compensate for additional costs” created by the persistence of old generation meters for the Network administrator.
1.7 million Enedis clients (less than 5% of the total) still equipped with an old accountant will see on their electricity bill every two months, a new line of 7.78 euros that includes taxes (6.48 euros ht), the amount of this new “paid succession,” said Enel.
And those among them would refuse to communicate their electricity consumption index to Enedis will receive an additional increase of 4.97 euros, including taxes (4.14 euros, also every two months. There are about 24% in this current case, said Enel.
An additional cost for Enedis
Until now, only customers not equipped with a link counter and not having sent a self-yoke in Enedis during the last 12 months were charged for 10.20 euros every two months, said the manager.
“These amounts reflect the real costs assumed by Enels to maintain a tariff signal transmission system adapted to old counters, organize the manual on foot, guarantee consumption verifications and maintain a specific client link,” said Enel in a press release dated Wednesday.
If the installation of these counters was a good business for Enels, the profits for the consumer are much more limited as BFM Business pointed out.
This new rate is applied within the Turpe frame (price for the use of public electricity networks), a tax established by the Energy Regulation Commission (CRE) that is used to remunerate the managers of the Electricity Grid (RTE and ECENIS) and whose new price enters into force on August 1.
38 million meters
The communication counter, a small green apple box called Linky, sends “every 4 minutes of signals” to Enedis, reminded the manager of the AFP. The latter can use it to accurately analyze the consumption of electricity remotely, practically in real time and without the presence of the client.
The deployment of these communication meters comes from a 2009 European directive. 38 million are now installed in France.
“Since March 2025, Enel has carried out a vast information campaign with worried customers” for the new billing methods and “more than 100,000 appliances for link meters during the same period have been recorded,” according to the manager.
Source: BFM TV
