Electricity: Customers who refuse the Linky meter will have to pay an additional cost from 1 August

From that date, customers equipped with an old meter will pay an additional €6.48 every two months.

Summary: From 1 August 2025, households without Linky meters will have to pay an additional cost of €38.48 per year (up to €63.12 if no reading is transmitted) The Court of Cassation has recently ruled that users can no longer legally oppose the installation of the Linky meter 95% of French households are already equipped with the Linky meter, about 2 million households still resist Only households where the installation is technically impossibl…

The Linky meter, deployed by Enedis since 2015, now equips more than 95% of French households. But as of 1 August 2025, the remaining 5% of households still refusing its installation will have to pay a regular extra cost, according to the new provisions regulated by the Commission de régulation de l'énergie (CRE). A regulatory evolution that aims to internalize the costs associated with the management of the old meters, and which transforms a re…

As of August 1st, French households that still do not wish to install a Linky meter within their home will now have to pay more for their electricity bill.

Households who refuse to install a Linky meter at home will have to pay additional costs from 1 August, up to an additional EUR 60 per year.

Households who refuse to install a Linky meter at home will have to pay additional costs from 1 August, up to an additional EUR 60 per year.