"You can see the increase in peak winter hours which, on my February 2022 bill, was billed at 13.72 cents per kilowatt hour and will increase to 57.34 cents per kilowatt hour at the start of next year".
Baker in the Doubs for eight years, Alexandra Faure launched, on November 17, a cry of distress in a video posted on Facebook when she learned that the electricity was going to increase by… 322%!
The fear of having to fire employees
“I am desperate for what will happen in the coming months, she testifies there on the verge of tears.
Desperate for me, for the investment that I put [in our bakery], for our 18 hours of daily work which risk being reduced to nothing.
But I am especially desperate for my husband and for my employees.
OUR “ELECTRICITY PRICES” FILE
As you can imagine, the use of electricity is essential for craftsmen.
“The fermentation chamber is mandatory.
And without the oven, we obviously cannot work, says Alexandra Faure.
Here you have a cold room, a freezer… Here, a refrigerated tower, a pastries oven over there.
All of this is equipment that we cannot do without to maintain an activity like ours”.
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