Costs to be covered by regulated tariffs
Principles of development pricing guidelines for electricity costs

Price breakdown

Tariffs are revenues that are intended to cover the costs generated by :

• transport (transmission and distribution): i.e. the cost of transporting electricity (on the RTE network, which generally has a voltage of over 63 kV) and distributing it (on a network with a voltage of less than 63 kV), plus a number of other services, such as meter changeover;

• the "contribution tarifaire sur l'acheminement" (CTA) ;

• marketing and customer management; i.e. costs generated by public information and contract management, promotion of energy efficiency or energy saving certificates, etc. ;

• production costs: fuel, operating and investment/dismantling costs for power plants.

For a given consumption profile, production costs can also be broken down mainly into :

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