The French consumer should benefit from the Linky communicating electricity meter with a reduction in start-up costs in the event of moving to a new home, scheduled to start in August, Enedis said on Monday.
“In the short term, the costs of operations that are operated remotely will decrease to be in line with the new costs allowed by Linky, that is to say in a drastic reduction,” Enedis director of regulation Christophe Gros said on the sidelines. of the presentation to the press of the development plan of the French electrical network and of the necessary investments for the company.
“It could be ready by August,” he added. Distribution network manager, Enedis is a subsidiary of EF.
They are set by the Energy Regulation Commission (CRE), which must carry out a consultation. “Everyone will agree that it must fall. If it falls a lot or enormously, that is the question,” said Christophe Gros.
90% of homes equipped
Proven since 2010, Linky smart meters now equip more than 90% of homes or electricity supply points. There are still 3 million Linky meters to deploy.
This box, imposed by Brussels to facilitate differentiated prices based on consumption, improve competition and promote energy savings, has given rise to multiple controversies, in particular regarding its cost, criticized in 2018 by the Court of Auditors, which judged the profits to be insufficient the consumer.
The total cost of the program was 3,900 million euros, according to AFP Enedis, which has allocated another 500 million euros of investment in 2021.
“The Linky project is generally over,” Christophe Gros told reporters. “Now we are reaping all the benefits because, precisely, it is a brick of this smart grid that allows the development of self-consumption, having much greater visibility on the grid, in areas affected by climate threats.”
By 2032, Enedis foresees an ambitious investment plan of more than 5,000 million euros per year, that is, 75% more than the annual average of the last forty years, in particular to install charging infrastructures for electric vehicles and connect new parks wind or solar
The tax included in the bills for the use of the network -represents approximately 30% of the bill- should therefore increase: Enedis speaks of a “controlled increase over time, less than or limited to inflation”.
Source: BFM TV
