Tariff shield 2023: a rise in electricity prices limited to 15%, really?

Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne has promised: next year, the increase in the price of electricity will be limited to 15%. For this year, his predecessor Jean Castex had already set up a tariff shield, limiting the increase to 4%. Except that according to our information, these values ​​do not reflect reality. With the start-up Lite, which supports individuals in their sobriety initiatives, we analyzed the bills of 35,000 customers, more than two-thirds of whom subscribed to the regulated sales tariff (TRV) for electricity, marketed by EDF to of 21.5 million households.