Electricity: Customers who refuse the Linky meter will have to pay an additional cost from August 1st
Since a ruling by the Court of Cassation last April, customers can no longer object to the installation of a new generation meter.
By Felix d'OrsoThe last holdouts will have to dig deep into their pockets. Electricity consumers who still refuse to install a Linky meter in their homes will pay more starting August 1st, according to information from Capital, confirmed to Le Parisien by Enedis.
From this date, customers with an old meter will pay an additional €6.48 every two months. This "specific tariff charge" will cover the costs incurred by these reluctant customers, mainly related to "maintaining a system for transmitting tariff signals to existing meters, as well as foot readings, inspections, and customer contact," Enedis said.
Customers without a Linky meter who do not report their consumption index to Enedis will pay an additional €4.14 every two months, or €10.62, because they "generate additional costs" due to "increased controls," the EDF subsidiary added.
This new regulation follows a decision by the Court of Cassation , which ruled in favor of the company on April 9 against two users who opposed the installation of the famous meter. Since this judgment, customers can no longer oppose the installation of a new generation meter.
The Linky meter is the name of the communicating electricity meter designed by Enedis that measures and transmits a household's electricity consumption in real time. Since 2015, a French law has authorized the company to install these meters in the homes of all its customers.
According to the EDF subsidiary, they benefit from customer advantages such as "more precise monitoring of their electricity consumption, new price offers proposed by electricity suppliers, as well as faster and remote services such as consumption readings or power changes."
However, since its introduction, the green meter has been poorly received by a minority of the population , and its installation has sparked protests. Today, more than 37.6 million Linky meters are installed in France, representing more than 95% of households equipped with them, according to Enedis.
Le Parisien
