Electricity - Public utilities rate’s contribution: The CRE asks for a 80% growth of the public utilities contribution

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. The Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE, 9 October 2012, deliberation on the proposal for public service charges for electricity and the unit contribution for 2013) has once again issued a proposal for the CSPE's unit contribution that goes far beyond what the government wants to hear. This effort to achieve transparency in energy prices should be credited to it and is reflected in the proposal for an increase of around 80%, which would represent, including VAT, around 16% of a residential customer's average annual bill including VAT (source: CRE, Décryptages, No. 32, p. 4). As a reminder, the public service charges for electricity, borne by EDF, the local