2023-04-21 07:32:00
Bruno Le Maire makes this announcement while energy prices are still high. The bill climbs to tens of billions of euros for the state.
By BL with aFP
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Le extended tariff shield. While it has been in force since the fall of 2021, the electricity tariff shield will be in force in France until the beginning of 2025, announced the Minister of Economy and Finance, Bruno Le Maire. At the same time, the similar device concerning gas will be ended, without Bruno Le Maire having indicated a date.
“I give us two years, by the start of 2025, to get out of the electricity shield”, because of the tariffs which remain “very high” compared to the pre-crisis situation, he said. . The production of electricity by EDF remains “a little below what we might expect, so that makes prices which are even higher”, specified Bruno Le Maire. The release of this shield will therefore be gradual “so as not to worry” the French. The increase in the regulated electricity tariff, capped by the State through subsidies, was 4% in 2022 and 15% in 2023.
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On the other hand, the Minister considers that the extension of the tariff shield on gas is no longer justified because natural gas prices have fallen significantly since the unprecedented peaks of 2022, caused by the war in Ukraine and the end of Russian gas exports. to Western Europe. For gas, “there is no reason to maintain the shield”, said Bruno Le Maire, because of prices which “have returned to the pre-crisis situation, at 50 euros per megawatt hour”. The shield will stop “as of this year”, announced Bruno Le Maire.
The government had so far said that the tariff shield would be applied until the end of 2023.
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