towards a tax increase in Lyon?
If electricity and gas prices are capped for individuals, despite the increases to be expected in 2023, local authorities do not benefit from the same boost from the government.
Cities, regions and departments pay electricity bills at the real price of energy. The budgetary slippage has since given a headache to the financial services of the communities. The City of Lyon is planning to explode its energy budget by nearly 100%. In some municipalities, executives have already taken drastic measures. In Strasbourg, the ecological municipality now closes its museums two days a week and suspends night lighting. A private operator of municipal swimming pools, meanwhile, lowered the curtain of thirty of its establishments from the beginning of September. “We are going to have to reduce the temperature of our equipment, but taking into account their specificity. We do not reduce the heating in the same way in a museum, a nursery or a swimming pool… We may have to ask more difficult questions such as: should we partially or completely close equipment? Today, this question is not settled. In 2023, the City’s bill will double to reach 40 million euros. It’s absolutely huge. Unless the state intervenes, which we invite to allow us to return to a regulated tariff since today the market is crazy “fumes Sylvain Godinot, deputy to the City in charge of ecological transition and heritage.