Wholesale electricity prices for 2023 topped 1,000 euros per megawatt hour (MWh) on Friday, from around 85 euros a year ago.
And from the outset the president of the Renaissance deputies (ex LREM) Aurore Bergé ruled out that the energy bill of the French would increase "by 35 to 50%" in the face of soaring electricity prices.
“We will continue to protect the French both on the risk of shortage and prices”, assured Europe 1 Aurore Bergé, questioned on the records reached in France by wholesale electricity prices.
On the one hand, the purchasing power law voted in early August "includes provisions which allow, until the end of the year, to protect the French", she also recalled.
And Aurore Bergé continued: "And we will have another budget debate" in the fall where "the question of energy, both the risk of shortages and prices, will obviously be raised to continue to protect the French and in no way to have a bill that would increase tomorrow by 35 to 50% as is the case in other countries that are neighbors of France”.
“We have made efforts so that this bill does not increase in the same dimensions as everywhere else in the other countries of the world”, added the deputy.
As a reminder, several causes are behind the explosion in prices, in particular the drying up of Russian gas flows to Europe since the start of the war in Ukraine, while a number of thermal power stations use gas to generate electricity. 'electricity.
And, in France, only 24 of the 56 EDF nuclear reactors are operating at the moment, in particular because of a corrosion problem, which reduces French electricity production to a historically low level, and mechanically increases prices.
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No, France has not yet reopened any coal-fired power plant to produce its electricity
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Soaring energy prices in France and Germany, up to 1,000 euros per megawatt hour
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