Take advantage of your move to save on your energy bill
Are you planning to move house in the coming months or weeks? This is the perfect time to cancel your energy contracts (electricity and gas) and re-evaluate your profile and consumption habits to find the most advantageous subscriptions for your new home.
Contracts tailored to your consumption profile
Because not all consumers have the same energy needs energy It's not always easy to choose the contract that will meet all your needs and save you money at the same time. What's more, if your current contracts were perfectly adapted to the equipment in your old home (boiler, heating appliances, water heater, hob), this won't necessarily be the case for your new one. Likewise, your new home may be better or worse than your old one. isolated than the current one. For all these different reasons, it's important to think about new contract formulas and possibly a change of energy supplier.
Nowadays, most energy suppliers offer online customers the opportunity to simulate their consumption, in order to obtain an estimate of their bill and any savings they may make by switching supplier. How do they do this? Thanks to algorithms designed to match the customer's consumption profile with the best offers for their needs and home. These tools take into account :
- The full address of the accommodation ;
- Type of accommodation (house, apartment, primary or secondary residence, etc.) ;
- Surface area ;
- Meter rating (in kVA) ;
- Tariff option ;
- Number of pieces ;
- Number of occupants ;
- The type of energy used for heating and domestic hot water;
- Type of hob (electric, glass-ceramic, cast-iron, etc.).
Depending on the site and the supplier, different types of results may appear: some offer a price comparison with regulated tariffs (the reference offer).
Change of address: an opportunity to take advantage of the competition
For 10 years now, the energy supply market for private customers has been divided between the offers of the former incumbent suppliers EDF and Engie (ex-GDF-Suez), i.e. regulated tariffs, and those of alternative suppliers, market-priced offers. Fixed or indexed, the latter often apply a discount on the price of kWh (gas or electricity) or subscription (rarer).
Fixed-price offers protect consumers from price rises over several years, allowing them to plan their energy budget in advance and smooth it out.
Indexed prices are modelled on regulated tariffs, but apply a discount to the price per kWh, so as to remain lower in terms of tariffs.