This was announced by the government in December 2022. From 1 January 2023, 3.8 million French who choose not to install Linky meters in their homes will have to pay for the additional costs inherent in meter reading. And this is regardless of your energy supplier.
This decision was taken by the Energy Regulatory Commission in March 2022. As the authorities pointed out on the Public Service website, from that date on “Households that refuse to install a Linky meter and do not provide at least one index reading in 2022 will have to pay compensation to cover this service”.
How to not pay Linky bank statement fees?
Thus, if you do not have a Linky meter and have not provided a consumption index to Enedis for a year, you are liable to finance meter readings up to 100 million TL. € 8.30 every two months (ie €49.80 total per year).
However, as stated on the Public Service website, it is possible to be exempted from these additional costs under one condition. In the effect, It is sufficient to self-read and transmit to Enedis at least once a year. In this exact case of your energy consumption in your old generation meter, You can continue to benefit from the free service.
Generalized end of free service on January 1, 2025
Be careful though, this method is temporary. On 1 January 2025 you will still have to get rid of 49.80 €. If you still don’t have a Linky at home, in the aforementioned year. And that’s even if you’re self-reporting. Note, however, that no penalty will be imposed if: For technical reasons it is impossible to install a Linky meter at home.
In passing, let’s remember that commissioning the Linky meter will cost less from August 2023. For now, if the installation of the connected meter costs the user 13.94 Euro, this amount should decrease in the summer. In any case, this was explained by Enedis’ editing director, Christophe Gro. “Everyone agrees that it should fall. Should it go down a lot or a lot, that is the question.” He said in March 2023.
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