Will condominiums and lessors also benefit from a guaranteed energy tariff?
Not impossible.
The Minister Delegate for Housing Olivier Klein announced this Sunday that such a measure for collective housing would be discussed with gas and electricity suppliers.
A similar device has already been validated for very small businesses (TPE) which will therefore benefit from a guaranteed electricity rate.
In 2023, they will pay a maximum of 280 euros per megawatt hour on average over the year, according to a government announcement dated this Friday.
This is much more than the historic price, rather around 50 euros, but less than the 400 to 1,000 euros reached during the second half of 2022, which will avoid catastrophic increases for bakers, restaurateurs and other artisans.
“Prices that are not unbearable”
“For condominiums or lessors who have taken out too expensive electricity or gas subscriptions, well there is work being carried out with energy companies as it is also carried out for companies, for bakers, said Olivier Klein on Radio D Sunday.
It's the same principle, we will work with the energy companies so that they have prices that are not unbearable for the condominiums, for the lessors.
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Households have been covered since last winter by what the government calls a gas and electricity tariff shield, capped tariffs, which were increased by 15% in 2023. This tariff shield initially had many holes, for example example for social housing or condominiums that could not benefit from it.
Specific aid has been added during 2022 and until December 31 to fill the last 1 to 2% of collective contracts not covered by the tariff shield.
More "no hole in the racket"
There is no longer "no hole in the racket" for households, assured the minister on Sunday, referring to collective electric heating or the charges for common areas.
According to him, the shields will cover the year 2023, and will be retroactive: “Where there have been excessive calls for charges, there will be regularizations of charges”.
For condominiums, a problem was that the trustee of the building or the social landlord had to claim the aid a posteriori and that this public aid was de facto capped.
If a guaranteed rate were adopted for condominiums in 2023, on the model of VSEs, this would go further than the current system, because it would make it possible to compensate more for the contracts signed in recent months at very high rates.
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