This exceptional restitution concerns in particular industrial customers, including hundreds of large “rgranted to the high and very high voltage network”.
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An unprecedented amount. The electricity transmission network operator RTE will pay out at least one billion euros to its users at the start of 2023, due to the sharp increase in its revenue. RTE proposed “to anticipate this restitution” so that its users, “especially large industrial sites, benefit from this support from the beginning of 2023”, “in the context of soaring energy prices”explained the manager, Wednesday, September 28.
This restitution, which “corresponds to the exceptional surplus forecast for 2022 under the effect of tensions on the electricity market”, could even reach more than 1.5 billion euros. She will aim “nearly 380 industrial customers connected to the high and very high voltage network, including 200 electro-intensive (large consumers of electricity) who could thus be reimbursed a global sum of up to 130 million euros”told AFP Laurent Martel, general manager in charge of finance and purchasing at RTE.
This concerns in particular “53 major chemical sites”, “80 metallurgy sites”, “34 steelmaking sites” and “about fifty stationery and cardboard sites”detailed Laurent Martel. “Almost a third of the tariff paid in 2021 by users of the public transport network could be returned to them”says a press release.