Why will the height and off-peak hours system be disrupted from November 1? | EUROtoday

More than two years after its genesis, the mission to modernize the height and off-peak electrical energy regime will lastly take form, in accordance with the tariff deliberation of the Energy Regulatory Commission revealed on February 6, 2025. The regulator intends to generalize, from 1^er November and till October 2027, the positioning of off-peak hours in the course of the afternoon, in order that 11 million of the 14.5 million clients who’ve opted for this selection – the remaining 3.5 are already benefiting from it – profit from preferential electrical energy charges at these occasions.

Established within the Nineteen Seventies and Eighties for people, the off-peak hours system consists of dividing the day into two durations. A “full” interval of sixteen hours at normal charges and an “off-peak” interval of eight hours throughout which the price of electrical energy is decreased.

The 40% of households and small companies who’ve chosen this selection can thus make financial savings in the event that they shift their electrical makes use of – water heater, washer, dishwasher, warmth pump or electrical automotive charging – throughout this off-peak interval. In the case of the regulated electrical energy gross sales tariff marketed by EDF, off-peak hours are 21% cheaper, even when the value of the month-to-month subscription is 4 euros larger. Their positioning may be steady or separated into two time slots. Competing suppliers – Total Energie, Engie – have, within the overwhelming majority, additionally drawn off-peak contracts, the positioning of which is once more decided by Enedis, the electrical energy distribution community supervisor, accountable for the applying of this reform.

From 1^er November, a primary burst of 1.7 million clients who have already got two cut up durations will see this group moved to keep away from the 2 time durations now banned by the Energy Regulatory Commission, specifically the morning between 7 a.m. and 11 a.m. in addition to the night between 5 p.m. and 11 p.m.

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