That’s irrelevant to what you use compared to what I use unless you specify the kw you have consumed. Electricity wise I use about 60kw per month.
February was 250kWh/€70 for me.
Ouch ! That works out at about 0.32€ per kWh. I don’t know what the Tempo costs but my HC/HP is only 0.206€ TTC per kWh on the daytime HP rate and 0.158€ at night.
FYI last year, 2025, Tempo cost me an average of €0.17 per kWh (5715 kWh, EDF total bill €1023).
It’s a choice, no one is forced to be on Tempo. Over the year, I saved in the region of €400 last year compared to HC/HP. Thanks to the weather, this week hasn’t been bad though I suspect next week might be more difficult.
Does that include the standing charges and taxes?
It does. All in.
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It didn’t for my message, I believe the standing charge is around £50 per month but I will check. Also vat at 5% on top.
It obviously depends on usage, but years ago I re-calculated my annual (tempo) bill as if it had been flat rate, and flat rate was slightly higher but not much, so I decided to avoid the red day hassle and cancelled tempo. I hope I didn’t miscalculate. 
Has anyone else tried the same?
Ironing in our house waits… forever 
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Only if you had a 36kVa supply.
My 9kVA Tempo standing charge 19,38€ TTC - see price list here….
https://particulier.edf.fr/content/dam/2-Actifs/Documents/Offres/Grille_prix_Tarif_Bleu.pdf
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Sorry Badger, I meant UK charge just so people can see what we are paying, France is far more reasonable.
Tempo saves us around € 200 a year, but our circumstances make Tempo very good for us. Others may vary. We are all electric and our overall energy cost taking into account what we receive back for sold solar energy is about € 40 per month including abonnement an all other charges.
This week has been good for us as there has been loads of sunshine and hence lots of solar power during the day. We have been able to carry on pretty much as normal except for being careful of what we cook for our evening meal. Next week will be much harder as it’s going to rain most of the week.
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Interestingly, I’ve now done the calculation and because we use 60% of our electricity at night, our average charge per kWh consumed comes to €0.1772 TTC which is pretty close to your Tempo average. I think I’m happy with that especially as we don’t need to worry about the colour of the day.
Mind you, I anticipate our daytime electricity consumption to rise considerably now that our oil fired heating is becoming so expensive to use.
Don’t be sorry, I should have spotted the £ symbol you used 
We changed to Tempo April 2024, from the previous Tariff Bleu, 6VA. That change saved us over €200 per annum. Our average charge per kWh has been fairly consistently around €0.19 before and after. We have tended to use about 5000 kWh over the last 7 years since moving to full time life here, although living off our potager has caused us to increase our freezers to 3. (We planned to switch at least one off when we needed less space, but that never seems to happen).
Before and after the change to Tempo about 1/3 of our consumption is in heures creuses. I am not sure what the pros and cons are if we changed to another tariff now that the heures creuses for those have been modified.
I think an EV with bidirectional charging would make a significant difference for us. Our current Fiat e500 does not support this, but a change to Renault next year would.
You will of course have had a capital outlay for the solar. I presume your healthy looking figures ignore that. Do you envisage a break-even date in the future, when your savings cancel out the solar cost?
I think there is another push on currently to entice people to install panels but I haven’t looked into it.
Today, for the first time, I looked on the Linky website where I checked our daily ‘puissance maximale’ I was surprised to see we had touched the 9 KW level several times. I’ll have to do some testing. I tried to use the ‘courbe de charge’ feature but got a message “La fonctionnalité est momentanément indisponible, veuillez réessayer plus tard.” which I find is a bit of a common occurrence in France. I have tried again, same message.
Same here, when the sun is out, our electricity bill is zero…. Only kicks in at night.
Average red day - non restricted cooking, laundry, building works is about 6€
So happy we installed the panels. Our elec. Bill over winter has halved. Now waiting to see how much we save running pool etc…
The €200 per year saving is just for Tempo, the solar saves us a considerable amount more. When we had the solar installed, we got a 25% refund over three years which made a big difference. It’s been in around six years now, but I haven’t really been tracking our savings for a few years now. Originally it was supposed to take around 10 years for repayment, but it’s possibly already paid for itself. Our energy outlay is €40 per month and the people we bought it off were spending €150 per month on a standard tariff and that was in 2017/18 when energy prices were cheaper.
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As the pool pump on most setups is probably the longest running household item and generally using far more power than necessary to get the job done, I hope you save a lot. For bigger savings you could probably make some small changes (not without some capital expenditure) and lower the running costs considerably. Not only that but improvements in water quality as well.
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Considering we spent just over 8k for 6Kw solar installation I sure hope we save money in the long run.
Planning to run the pump during sun hours, but also being on Tempo tariff during the night if necessary.
Not spending more on pool equipment if we are not forced to do so…