Electricity bill: the price for using the Enedis network will jump in 2025

The Energy Regulatory Commission predicts that revenue from the electricity network usage tariff, collected by Enedis and RTE, should increase significantly in 2025. Households and businesses will thus be required to contribute more via their bill.

It’s a subject “flammable”recognizes the Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE). On October 17, the regulator launched a public consultation to establish the new tariff for use of the public electricity network (Turpe) for the period from 2025 to 2028. Every 4 years, the CRE establishes the Turpe to allow network managers – Enedis and RTE – to transport and distribute electricity. Energy suppliers pay this and in turn impose this toll rights to all of their customers, businesses and individuals alike.

For a household, Turpe currently represents around 6 euro cents per kilowatt hour, “i.e. approximately 20 to 30% of an average electricity bill including tax”specifies the CRE. A level which should increase by around 10% in 2025 according to the provisional scenario adopted, and which will be revised in 2026, 2027 and 2028, depending on the level of inflation. Enedis demanded an increase of 18.9% for next year. The CRE has therefore tempered the desires of managers. From next year, the contribution of households under Turpe should therefore reach on average 6.6 cents per kilowatt hour.

Colossal investments for Enedis and RTE

Such an increase is required to meet the growing investment needs of managers. They would triple for RTE, going from 2.1 billion in 2023 to 6.4 billion in 2028. Enedis’ needs would reach 7 billion by this date. The development of charging stations for electric cars and renewable energies, in particular offshore wind power, the electrification of large industrial sites but also the renovation of the aging electricity network subjected to severe tests with climate change will indeed require “heavy investments” recognizes the CRE. This option is considered inevitable for “give network managers the means to carry out their missions under good conditions”continues the regulator.

The timetable for such an increase still remains to be defined. The Turpe is normally revalued each year on August 1st. But the independent administrative authority considers that it would be “timely” to bring this date forward to February 1st. This deadline is not chosen at random since it is the date of calculation of the regulated sales tariffs (TRV) of electricity for the next twelve months. However, the market prices of electricity, which make up more than half of the TRV, have fallen significantly since the end of the 2022 energy crisis. This is why the government has promised a drop of at least 9% in the TRV. on February 1.

The CRE therefore wishes to seize this opportunity to make this increase less unpopular, because it would be drowned out by a reduction in bills. “Anticipating developments from August 2025 to February 2025 would make it possible to avoid movements in opposite directions 6 months apart”she justifies. Its decision must be rendered no later than January 2025.