Tens of thousands of Facebook shares, a sign of exasperation? A message encouraging internet users to deduct the number of hours of any cuts from their electricity bill has been broadcast more than 57,000 times on Facebook since 7 December. An identical previous post has garnered 53,000 shares since December 2.
“We are being told of power outages, begins the message. OK, but remember to check the number of hours of downtime per month and deduct it from your subscription. They want to save, so do we! Tour ! »
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The proposal is surprising: citizens who have a blackout will not consume during the cut, therefore there will already be savings on their bills, confirms the Consumer Institute 20 minutes. This is also underlined by EDF: “By definition, electricity that is not consumed is not invoiced”. As for the subscription, it constitutes ” fixed part of the account ».
And a possible reduction? “EDF does not plan to deduct an amount from subscriber bills,” the provider explains to 20 minutes. In fact, the supplier is not responsible for transporting the energy to its customer, a task that falls to the network managers. Consequently, the supplier is not responsible for the consequences linked to a cut on the network which fall within the network operator/customer relationship. »
In the event of a cut, RTE, the network operator, will not plunge the whole of France into darkness. These are areas of 2,000 customers on average that will be targeted, depending on the government website. French connected to a priority line or a line serving priority sites such as hospitals or emergency centers should also escape possible cuts.
The CEO of EDF, Luc Rémont, said on Friday “to face the next few weeks with confidence, with the passage of winter”. His company estimates a 10% drop in consumption in November compared to November 2021, according to AFP.
This Tuesday, France was still green on the Ecowatt site, designed by RTE to warn of peaks in electricity consumption.
