Question 12267 — energy and fuels

Summary

Mr. Pascal Jenft alerts the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industrial, Energy and Digital Sovereignty about EDF's differentiated pricing system based on a color code for consumption days. Indeed, EDF classifies the different days of the year via a color code: blue days with a classic consumption rate, white days with an intermediate rate and red days with a rate pupil. There are 22 red days in the year, distributed from November 1 to March 31. However, red days, in addition to imposing high prices, occur on festive days, such as December 31 or when temperatures are the coldest. It is in fact difficult, even unthinkable, for French households to go without heating in the heart of winter, without endangering their comfort or even their health. This thus requires paying a bill that is 210.8% more expensive during peak hours. This situation is all the more unfair as it places the burden of energy policy errors of the State and the European Union on households, such as underinvestment in nuclear power; the gradual dismantling of EDF; dependence on the rules of the European electricity market and the indexation of prices on imported fossil fuels. This red days system is in reality a symptom of a shortage and the State's refusal to guarantee stable and affordable electricity (which was nevertheless possible with the French nuclear model). This is why he insists on this reality and asks what actions the Government intends to take in order to spare French households from a further increase in energy prices next winter and by what means it intends to put an end to the red days in the EDF consumption calendar.

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