After individuals, and following very small businesses, condominiums and social housing might in turn benefit from capped energy prices. The Minister for Housing, Olivier Klein, announced on Sunday January 8 on Radio J that he will lead “work with energy companies so that condominiums and landlords [sociaux] do not have unbearable prices”. He also welcomed the fact that there is “no more holes in the racket” tariff shields, mechanisms which make it possible to limit the rise in energy tariffs thanks to State compensation.
Three decrees published in Official newspaper on December 31, 2022 are intended to fill the gaps denounced in recent months by the Social Union for Housing (USH), which federates HLM organizations, as well as by the main associations of tenants and co-owners. These texts create a tariff shield for the 2% of dwellings equipped with collective electric heating, for the second half of 2022, with retroactive effect, as well as for the year 2023. Electricity charges for common areas are also included – “which will represent significant savings between lighting, ventilation, the operation of elevators, garage doors…”explains Nicolas Prudhomme, director of project management and heritage policies at USH.
As for collective gas heating, which is very widespread, the shield is extended in 2023. This having proved to be insufficiently protective for condominiums or social landlords forced to renew their energy contract in the second half of 2022, when prices were at above, additional assistance is created, and will apply retroactively.
These decrees constitute “significant progress”greeted the president of the USH, Emmanuelle Cosse, before adding: “However, they do not make it possible to restore price equality between collective heating and individual heating. » Individuals benefit for individual heating from the freezing of regulated gas tariffs since November 2021 and from an increase in electricity tariffs limited to 4% since February 2022. This tariff shield is renewed in 2023, but on tariffs increased by an average of 15%, from 1is January for gas and from 1is February for electricity.
Find the “right level” of capping
Co-ownerships and social landlords therefore welcome the project of the Minister Delegate for Housing to limit the increases with which they are confronted. This is the same approach as that taken following the mobilization of bakers and the denunciation by Emmanuel Macron of tariffs “excessive” : brought together on January 6 by the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, electricity suppliers have accepted that very small businesses (TPE, with fewer than ten people) do not pay more than 280 euros per megawatt hour (MWh) on average in 2023, while a certain number have signed since July contracts exceeding 400 euros / MWh.
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