The boost will be maintained “until the price of electricity becomes reasonable again”, the Minister of Energy Transition committed this Friday. The “price shield” which limits the increase in electricity bills for businesses and households could therefore be stopped in mid-2024, taking into account the evolution of market prices, estimated Agnès Pannier-Runacher.
“Next year, prices [de l’électricité] on the financial markets are falling and therefore, we will maintain the energy shield until the price of electricity becomes reasonable again and that is why we will be able to remove it probably in the middle of the year. year,” declared the minister on CNews-Europe 1.
“This year, we are still covering 37% of the French bill,” recalled Agnès Pannier-Runacher, explaining that this is “the gap between the prices on the financial electricity markets and the price that the French pay on their bill.
She nevertheless recalled the fact that regulated electricity prices would increase in February, by a maximum of 10%, according to the government’s commitment.
The government had already announced the gradual end of the energy shield, launched in the fall of 2021 by the government to limit increases in electricity and gas prices.
It had already been removed at the end of July for gas, taking into account market developments.
Most of the 16 billion euros in savings planned in France’s 2024 budget must come from the end of this tariff shield.