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Electricité de France - Tarifs
In the French system you chose how much electricity you want to use. The higher the size of the input, the higher the standing charge. To optimise your costs, it is therefore important that you don’t request too higher supply. Standard Service (Option Base) A standard house with standard usage would be a 6 or 9 KW supply, but if you find that your power ‘trips’ frequently you may find that you will need to increase this to 12KW (or higher if you rely on lots of electrical heating). Actually how much you need will depend on your house and your appliances – EDF offer a service to estimate for you but trial and error is a good guide.

Standard	size of electricity supply
	3 Kw	6 Kw	9 Kw	12 Kw
Standing Charge (Abonnement)	24.28	61.75	121.83	174.69

Economy Service (Option 'Heures Creuse' or HC) In addition to the standard service, EDF offer an off peak rate of power, called ‘Heures Creuse’. However, the standing charge is higher so this is only worth opting for if you use sufficient electricity overnight. A standard sized water heater is not sufficient to justify the higher standing charge – you really need to have electric heaters on at night to make it worth the change. In the Vendee cheap rate runs from 23h30 to 7h30.

Option 'Heures Creuse'	size of electricity supply
	3 Kw	6 Kw	9 Kw	12 Kw
Standing Charge (Abonnement)	not available	106.98	191.90	276.81

Standard / KWh ('Heures Plein')		0.1085
Off peak / KWh ('Heures Creuse')		0.0661

Tempo There is a third (very complex) option which can lower your costs, especially if you don’t intend to use your house during the winter. Option Tempo delivers significantly lower electricity prices for most of the year (blue days), but EDF have the option to ramp up the costs to 10 times the normal price on 22 days (red days) during the year (usually the coldest days, thereby reducing the consumption by Tempo users). On a further 43 days the price is about the same as a standard tariff, but slightly higher overnight. Sundays is always a blue day; Sundays and holidays are never red; there can never be more than 5 red days in a row. Tempo can be a cost effective option – especially if you are a largish user, but an infrequent winter visitor.

Tempo	size of electricity supply
	3 Kw	6 Kw	9 Kw	12 Kw

Standing Charge (Abonnement)	not available		162.42	222.36

Standard(Blue) days - standard / KWh			0.0456
Standard(Blue) days - off peak / KWh			0.0566

Middle(white) days - standard / KWh			0.1104
Middle(white) days - off peak / KWh			0.0931

Peak(red) days - standard / KWh			0.4833
Peak(red) days - off peak / KWh			0.1728
			all prices in Euros including taxes

(Note: a forerunner of Tempo was called EJP – this provided a similar system but with much better tariffs, should you find you have this tariff in your property keep it: once its been changed to a new tariff you can’t get it back!)

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