Systematic Monitoring of Offer Consistency and Overview of Market Offers Subscribed by Residential Consumers (CRE)

Summary

• The CRE now continuously tracks prices for about 11.6 million residential electricity consumers (75% of market offers) and about 8.7 million gas consumers (85%).p.5
• The Base and Peak/Off-peak options represent 93% of market offers to individuals, or 14.4 million at the end of 2025.p.4
• 69% of electricity market-offer contracts are green offers, against 32% of gas contracts.p.7
• One in two electricity consumers holds a contract cheaper than the regulated tariff (TRVE), and a little over 70% pay a price below or close to it.p.8
• Nearly 84% of gas consumers pay a price below or close to the PRVG, and 62% of contracts are priced between PRVG -5% and PRVG +5%.p.11
• 83% of fixed-price electricity contracts have a price above the TRVE in 2025.p.9
• The average consumer would save 157 €/year excl. tax on electricity by subscribing to the most competitive offer available in December 2025, estimated at 867 €/year excl. tax.p.15

Key insights

1. More than 10% of electricity contracts have a price below TRVE -5%, and nearly 40% sit between TRVE and TRVE -5%.p.8
2. 1.9 million consumers hold a fixed-price offer more than 5% above the TRVE, which is 56% of all contracts priced above TRVE +5%.p.9
3. 61% of consumers paying more than 20% above the TRVE are customers of four suppliers holding the ADEME VertVolt label.p.10
4. Fixed-price offers represent 90% of gas offers priced above PRVG +5% at the end of 2025.p.12
5. 240,000 consumers hold a fixed-price gas offer longer than 3 years and pay more than PRVG +15%.p.12
6. The average electricity consumer pays an annual bill of 1,024 €/year excl. tax, with each offer type between 1,006 and 1,048 €/year.p.14
7. The average gas consumer pays 1,083 €/year excl. tax and could save 197 €/year with the most competitive offer in December 2025.p.16
8. In total, 70% of electricity consumers and nearly 84% of gas consumers pay a price below or close to the CRE reference prices.p.19