The last recalcitrants will have to get their hands in the pocket. Electricity consumers who still refuse to install a Linky counter at home will pay more from August 1 according to information from Capital Confirmed to the Parisian by Enedis.
From this date, customers equipped with an old counter will pay an additional 6.48 euros every two months. This “specific price term” will cover the costs that these reluctant customers generate, mainly relating to “the maintenance of a system of transmission of tariff signals to historic meters, as well as the succession on foot, controls and customer contact”, specifies Enedis.
Customers without a Linky meter who do not communicate in Enedis their consumption index will pay an additional 4.14 euros every two months, or 10.62 euros, because they “generate additional costs” due to “increased checks”, adds the EDF subsidiary.
This new regulation follows A decision of the Court of Cassationwhich agreed on April 9 to the company against two users who opposed the installation of the famous meter. From this judgment, customers can no longer oppose the installation of a new generation counter.
5 % households retain an old counter
The Linky counter is the name of the communicating electricity counter designed by Enedis which measures and transmits in real time the consumption of electricity of the household. Since 2015, a French law has authorized the company to install these counters with all its customers.
According to the EDF subsidiary, they benefit from advantages for customers such as “more precise monitoring of their electrical consumption, new tariff offers offered by electricity suppliers, as well as faster and remote services such as the succession of consumption or the change of power”.
As soon as it is commissioned, the green counter was nevertheless poorly welcomed by a minority fringe of the population And its installation has sparked sling movements. Today, more than 37.6 million Linky meters are installed in France, or more than 95 % of equipped households, according to Enedis.
