The discount will be proportional to the amount of the energy check, and the cost of this measure amounts to 90 million euros for Engie, for 880,000 customers concerned, confirmed the group to the France-Presse agency.
Le Monde with AFP
Engie will grant in November a discount of 100 euros on average by customer beneficiary of the energy check, said the director general of the group Catherine MacGregor in an interview published Thursday July 28 on the site of Parisian .
“We are aware of the inflationary reality and concerned about the difficulties encountered by our customers, whether households or industrialists,” said Macgregor in Le Parisien. The cost of this measure amounts to 90 million euros for Engie, for a total of 880,000 customers concerned.
The group, which must present its results on Friday, also implemented a support fund of 60 million euros for small and medium -sized enterprises, “which will allow them to have access to guarantees of which they need to buy energy “, or even” payment facilities when they are struggling to pay the bills “.
” There is no overprofit “
This gesture does not respond to the debate launched in Parliament in July on the implementation of a tax on the overpros carried out by the big groups, affirms the leader.
Totalenergies had announced, for example, a discount of 20 cents per liter of fuel at the pump between September and November in all its service stations, then 10 cents per liter on the rest of the year.
“It is above all a citizen gesture, to help our customers. (…) Engie does not produce gas, but buys it and resells it to market price. So there is no overprofit “Explained Ms. Macgregor.
“On electricity, certain assets, including our nuclear power plants in Belgium, have effectively benefited from the high energy prices. They are subject to a tax and redistribution of profits which is already very well defined. This allows us to return a significant proportion of these profits to the states concerned, “said the manager.