Gas and electricity price freeze for collective housing in 2023

Faced with rising gas prices, the gas tariff shield is extended in 2023 for collective housing structures. The compensation is calculated on the basis of regulated gas sales tariffs (TRVs), the increase of which is limited to +15% in January 2023, compared to 2022 levels.

The aid corresponds to the aid granted to individuals under contract with a natural gas supplier.

The "collective" tariff shield is extended to electricity. Collective structures not eligible for regulated tariffs for sale (TRV) and electric district heating will benefit from a "collective" shield on electricity, with retroactive effect to 1^er July 2022. The compensation under this collective shield corresponds, in 2023, to the difference between the unit price of unfrozen TRVs (variable share) and that of frozen TRVs. Exceptionally, for the period from 1^er from July to 31 December 2022, the compensation corresponds to 70 % of the invoice above the frozen TRV, up to a unit aid ceiling of EUR 130/MWh.

For individuals, there is no process to collect this compensation. This is passed on to private individuals' expenses by the managers of their dwellings (housing associations, mixed economy unions, condominium trustees, sole owners of a collective building, etc.). Specifically, the aid is first requested from the State by the gas or electricity supplier, who returns it within 30 days of that request to the collective housing manager. It reduces it from residents' expenses.

Condominiums in collective gas heating

In 2023, condominiums in collective heating with a gas supply contract consuming more than 150 MWh/year are included in the scope of the tariff shield for private individuals, as is already the case for condominiums consuming less than 150 MWh/year. This will enable the condominiums concerned to benefit from the tariff shield directly on their bill, in a shorter period of time than with the ‘collective housing’ shield.

Expansion of the "collective" shield to new structures

New collective structures are eligible for the ‘collective’ tariff shield, for both gas and electricity:

• from 1^er July 2022: care facilities for elderly dependants (Ehpad), facilities for disabled people, all accommodation for asylum seekers, social residences, rental brokerage housing;
• from 1^er january 2023: child welfare structures and youth judicial protection institutions.