the price range arrives on the National Assembly; the RN won’t vote for it, proclaims Jordan Bardella | EUROtoday

Sixteen federations {and professional} associations denounced the rise in taxes on the electrical energy invoice, deliberate within the draft price range offered by the federal government, in an open letter addressed to deputies and senators on Wednesday.

“This tax, which already represents almost a third of the total amount of the electricity bill, could constitute the first item tomorrow, leading to the fact that electricity consumers contribute more to the State budget than ‘to the goods and services they consume’write these energy sector federations in this letter, on the occasion of the start of the examination of the 2025 finance bill (PLF) in the finance committee of the National Assembly.

“In recent months, the electricity bill has regularly found itself at the heart of the news, effectively devaluing the assets of the French electricity system and its stakeholders”they proceed, recalling that electrical energy “constitutes one of the pillars of France’s energy strategy to guarantee our sovereignty, our climate trajectory and respond to the challenges of purchasing power and competitiveness”.

They underline that the yr 2024 marked the tip of the worth defend with a rise within the excise on electrical energy, which rose for households from 1 euro excluding tax (HT) to 21 euros excluding tax per megawatt hour (MWh) on February 1 2024.

However, they let or not it’s recognized, “the finance bill for 2025 which was presented last week finally provides that the excise rate could be between 30 euros/MWh excluding tax and 50 euros/MWh excluding tax, thus greatly exceeding the previous level crisis “. “The project presented by the government intends to carry out an overall increase in the electricity excise to a level never reached until now, which would constitute an ecological contradiction”they are saying.

At the same time, fossil fuels “still represent two thirds of our national final energy consumption and weigh heavily on our trade balance, with energy imports amounting to more than 65 billion euros each year”they lament.

The signatories are Afpac, Avere, Enerplan, Gifam, Gifen, Gimelec, France Hydro Electricité, France Hydrogène, the French Federation of Electrical Integrators (FFIE), the Federation of Electrical, Electronic and Communication Industries (Fieec), France Renewables , Ignes, Promotelec, the Renewable Energies Union (SER), the French Nuclear Energy Company (SFEN) and the French Electricity Union (UFE).