UFC Que Choisir suspends its group purchases of gas and electricity

There shall be no low-cost vitality provide contracts this 12 months. The UFC Que Choisir is suspending its motion “Cheaper energies together”. For a number of years the affiliation has been negotiating decrease wholesale costs for electricity and gas with totally different suppliers to profit essentially the most modest households. The extra requests she had, the extra she obtained important reductions, typically as much as 8%.

Twice as many requests this 12 months

But the present rise within the worth of vitality doesn't make this motion attainable this 12 months, regrets Maurice Marre, the president of the UFC Que Choisir de la Corrèze. “Especially what is not possible because the suppliers have no vision in the short and medium term, is to guarantee a fixed price for one year”. A scenario which is all of the extra damaging with the rise within the worth this 12 months, this rebate would have been welcome for a lot of households. The affiliation additionally had extra requests in Corrèze. “The last time there were 160 people. There we had already passed 300.”

Change even each three months

The motion is suspended solely specifies the president of the affiliation in Corrèze. It will resume as quickly as attainable. Waiting for you'll be able to attempt to discover a cheaper worth your self by going to the association's website who each month data the costs of all gas and electricity suppliers. “You should not hesitate to go to the cheapest supplier, leaving three months later to go to another” underlines Maurice Marre. At the identical time, the UFC Que Choisir is campaigning for a discount in VAT on vitality. She launched a nationwide petition on the topic which has already collected greater than 70,000 signatures.