The CLCV consumer association asks to postpone the end of the regulated tariff for the sale of gas to individuals for two years, scheduled for June 30, by affirming its “protective nature” in a market that has become “toxic”, in a letter to the President of the Republic made public on Tuesday.
As of July 1, “2.6 million households will have to renounce the regulated gas tariff and subscribe to a market offer” and “the regulated tariff will of course cease to be the specific reference to index many market offers ”, fears the consumer association, which wrote to Emmanuel Macron on December 7.
The crisis has also revealed that “a rate can be radically changed at any time,” underlines the association in its letter to the president. The association considers it “very risky to ask 2.6 million households to choose an offer in such a toxic market,” according to a press release.
Gasoline prices at their lowest point in a year
For both gas and electricity there are several types of tariffs: regulated sales tariffs (TRV) are marketed by historical suppliers, EDF for electricity and Engie for gas. In turn, there are contracts indexed to this rate and market offers at free prices, variable or not.
According to the association, condominiums or HLMs that, unlike homes, do not have a regulated price, are already penalized: they have a price shield in the form of aid that must be requested after the fact but does not absorb the price increase.
Even if the price of European natural gas returned to its lowest level since February 2022 at the beginning of the year, nothing guarantees, according to the association, that it is a lasting trend.
The end of the regulated gas tariff stems from a decision of the Council of State in 2017, considering it contrary to European law.
Source: BFM TV
