“It saves me 250 euros”: electrical energy, gasoline… Group buying gives return to France

Interrupted in 2021 as a result of power disaster, group power buying gives are making a comeback. The idea: client associations or on-line comparators provide, in partnership with suppliers, subscriptions at decreased costs. Within the house of some days, the UFC Que Choisir affiliation and the Selectra comparator launched their respective gives with Octopus Power and Ekwateur.

“250 euros saved per 12 months”

Goal for the buyer: save a number of dozen euros on electrical energy payments. That is the case of Bernard, retired. He has been subscribing to the group buying gives supplied by Selectra for a number of years. Monday, when he obtained the brand new provide from the comparator, in partnership with Ekwateur, he didn’t hesitate for a single second.

“In comparison with my present provider, I calculated that it saved me no less than 250 euros per 12 months. And we’re sure, for a 12 months, to pay 14% lower than a regulated fee”, he explains on the microphone of Europe 1. If the low cost is assured for a 12 months, the worth of the kWh, for its half, will monitor the evolution of regulated electrical energy costs.

Achieve visibility

For his or her half, UFC Que Choisir and Octopus Power provide a hard and fast worth for 2 years. “We anticipate that there shall be a rise of round 10% within the regulated worth in February 2024. That is why our provide, with its worth fixity over two years, is actual safety tariff”, boasts Cédric Musso of the UFC Que Choisir affiliation.

Contacted by Europe 1, Octopus Power acknowledges that this measure has a price. However for power suppliers, it additionally permits them to realize visibility.