Can an auto-entrepreneur claim for anything or get any tax free breaks?

I am an auto-entrepreneur with a chambres d’hôtes with 5 letting rooms. I have now completed 1 year of business. Turnover 10,066€, which I am happy with for year 1.

The electricity bill for the year is 4,307€, which I am not happy with for year 1 (especially as I now know that although the unit price is about the same as the UK, in France there is also TCFE, CSPE and TVA at 20% on all of that). All these extra taxes is another 38% on top of the actual electricity cost, which is quite frightening! OK if you live in a modern, eco-friendly house in a city, but not out here in the mountains in an old building.

So, in total, my electricity bill is 43% of my turnover.
Then take off the 24.4% for tax and social security and that leaves precious little.
I have asked other people and my electricity bill is not unusual for a house this size in this area. I do not yet have central heating, which would make a big difference but as an auto-entrepreneur I do not get a tax free allowance like the employed and I cannot claim back these huge costs such as the electricity like a EURL can.

Should I be an auto-entrepreneur or should I have a different business set up? I obviously cannot live on the remaining 32% of my turnover less the costs such as food for breakfast, cleaning products, tea and coffee etc. And I cannot put my prices up as I am about average for the area.

Is there anything that an auto-entrepreneur can do for such large expenses?

many thanks
Louise