Two days after the announcement that very small enterprises (VSEs) would benefit from a guaranteed electricity tariff in 2023, the Deputy Minister for Housing, Olivier Klein, announced that a similar measure for housing would be discussed with gas and electricity providers. collective.
In 2023, VSEs (fewer than ten employees) will pay a maximum of 280 euros per megawatt hour of electricity on average over the year, according to a government announcement on Friday. It is much more than the historical price, more like around 50 euros, but less than the 400 to 1,000 euros reached during the second half of 2022, which will avoid catastrophic increases for bakers, restaurateurs and other artisans.
“For the condominium owners or landlords who have taken out too expensive electricity or gas subscriptions, they are working with energy companies as well as for companies, for bakers,” said Olivier Klein on Radio J Sunday.
“No Hole in the Racket”
Households have been covered since last winter by what the government calls a gas and electricity rate shield, capped rates, which have increased by 15% in 2023.
This tariff shield initially included many holes, for example for social housing or condominiums that could not benefit from it. Specific aid has been added during 2022 and until December 31 to cover the last 1 or 2% of collective agreements not covered by the tariff shield.
There is no longer “any hole in the shed” for homes, the minister said this Sunday, referring to collective electric heating or charging for common areas. According to him, the shields will cover the year 2023, and will be retroactive: “Where there have been excessive calls for collection, there will be collection regularizations.”
For condominiums, one problem was that the trustee of the building or the social owner had to claim aid a posteriori and that this public aid was de facto limited. If a guaranteed rate for condominiums were adopted in 2023, based on the VSE model, this would go beyond the current system, because it would allow more compensation for the contracts signed in recent months at very high rates.
Source: BFM TV
