Baptiste Morin, edited by Gauthier Delomez 06:16, January 03, 2023
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the price of gas on the market has never been so low: 73 euros per megawatt hour, i.e. almost five times less than at the end of the month of 'august.
However, this drop is not reflected in consumer bills.
Europe 1 is looking into this distortion.
The price of gas has never been so low since the start of the war in Ukraine: on the market, it is currently around 73 euros per megawatt hour, i.e. almost five times less than at the end of the August, when it exceeded 340 euros.
This is explained by the drop in consumption, thanks to the weather and sobriety.
And yet, the price of the French gas bill does not drop.
Europe 1 takes stock of this distortion between a drop in the price of materials and stagnation in the cost of invoices.
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In reality, it is not only the effect of the tariff shield that has frozen prices at a very low level.
Industrialists resell gas at a high price
“When we are residential, we use gas that was put in storage this summer”, explains Thierry Bros, energy specialist, at the microphone of Europe 1. “So the industrialists bought it expensive, and are going to us sell it expensive this winter. Add to that that the price of gas seems cheaper on the markets, but it is still more expensive than on our bill", he explains.
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For the market price to reach that on the invoice, it would have to drop another 50%, which is very unlikely.
The prospect of the end of the supply of Russian gas could on the contrary quickly make the price rise again.