What change for your electricity bill on February 1st?

The amount of your electricity bill depends on:

• electricity supply costs;
• the rate for the transmission of electricity;
• the level of various taxes (VAT, excise duty on electricity and the transmission tariff contribution).

In accordance with the Government's draft decree, the rate of the routing tariff contribution will increase from 21.93% to 15% on the 1st^er February.

This represents a decrease of around 10 € per year on the price of the electricity subscription, for a home. The subscription corresponds to a fixed part of the electricity bill. The decrease applies regardless of the amount of electricity consumed (the decrease in the transmission rate contribution does not affect the price per kilowatt hour, i.e. the price of electricity consumed).

The evolution of the price of the electricity subscription concerns all types of contracts, whether at the regulated tariff or in market offer.

What is the trend for regulated electricity tariffs?

The mission of the Energy Regulatory Commission is to propose to the Ministries of Energy and the Economy the changes to the regulated electricity sales tariffs (TRVE), which correspond in particular to EDF's “blue tariff”. It proposed an average decrease of 0.83% in these rates at 1^er February 2026.

This reduction in TRVEs still needs to be validated by the Government in order to be implemented. It concerns only households, as well as “small” professionals or similar, whose bill is subject to regulated electricity sales tariffs (you can check on the contract of your energy supplier if you depend on regulated electricity sales tariffs or a market offer).