Ohm Energie is under investigation by thehe Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE), the body announced on Friday, September 9 in a press release, confirming information from the Parisian. the alternative electricity supplier, founded in 2018, is suspected of having made undue profits on the markets with cheap nuclear electricity purchased from EDF via the mechanism ofRegulated access to historical nuclear electricity (Arenh).
The independent authority suspects him of having bought nuclear electricity from the Arenh and resold it on the markets at a higher rate instead of passing it on to his customers.
Ohm Energie disputes this version and claims not to have “never sold the slightest kWh of the Arenh on the stairs”according to its founding president, François Joubert, a former EDF engineer. Ohm Energie, however, confirmed to AFP that it had “received a notification informing him of an investigation carried out by the CRE”. “Its rates after increase remain lower or equivalent to those of its competitors”, again supported the company, which “intends to maintain them all winter without additional increases”.
“A first investigation has been launched on the company Ohm Energie, which in no way prejudges at this stage the existence or not of breaches that only a substantive investigation will allow to establish, if necessary”, for its part declared the CRE. She “confirms that certain suppliers are the subject of ongoing investigations, in particular with regard to actions likely to constitute an abuse of Arenh”. The investigations may lead to a referral to the Dispute Resolution and Sanctions Committee (Cordis), which may decide on possible sanctions.
The consumer association CLCV explains that it has alerted the authorities for months about “a risk of Arenh speculative fault” from alternative suppliers with a “bypassing the Arenh rules”. According to the association, suspicions also target the company Mint Energie against which the CLCV has initiated a group action.
The regulator recalls that individuals and certain small professionals can always change their contract and opt for EDF’s regulated tariffs, frozen since February by the government’s “tariff shield”.
Right of reply: the company Mint was named and questioned in your newspaper by an article published on your website on September 9, 2022, the title of which is “Electricity: the Regulatory Commission is investigating the supplier Ohm Energie”. It is stated there that Mint would be under investigation by the CRE concerning abuses relating to ARENH. However, it is not. Mint is in no way concerned by such an investigation, which has been expressly confirmed by CRE. The Mint company refutes, purely and simply, the allegations reported in your article. The aforementioned article is thus particularly detrimental to the MINT company, which reserves the right to take any civil or criminal action necessary to preserve its honor and its interests.