Prosumers

• Loi n° 2017-227 du 24 février 2017
• Ordonnance n° 2021-236 du 3 mars 2021

An electricity producer is, on the one hand, allowed to consume its own electricity production (mostly of renewable origin for domestic use), and on the other hand, to benefit from a tariff linked to a purchase obligation or a remuneration premium for the part of the electricity it does not consume itself.

An individual self-consumption operation is when a producer, known as a "self-producer", consumes all or part of the electricity produced by his installation himself on the same site. The part of the electricity consumed can be either instantaneous or after a storage period.
The status of individual self-consumer is also granted to the operator of a public charging infrastructure for electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles (IRVE), which obtains all or part of its energy requirements from a renewable electricity production facility that it operates on the same site.

The 2017 law obliges grid operators to facilitate self-consumption operations. The conditions for connecting small self-consumption installations are therefore facilitated. The latter can transfer any surplus electricity free of charge to the grid operator, unless it is sold to a third party.

The 2017 law also provides for the establishment by the French regulator (Commission de régulation de l'énergie, CRE) of a specific tariff for the use of public electricity distribution networks for consumers participating in self-consumption operations, when the power of the installation that supplies them is less than 100 kilowatts (kW).
The feed-in tariff from EDF OA (EDF Obligation d'Achat) is guaranteed for 20 years: since 2017, it is €0.10/kWh for an installation of less than 9 kWp and €0.06/kWh for an installation between 9 kWp and 100 kWp.

The 2017 law introduces an advantageous tax regime for the operators of installations with an installed capacity of less than 1 MW – the maximum amount for this tax exemption is 240 MWh per site and per year. This favourable regime translates into an exemption from the contribution to the public electricity service (CSPE) and from local taxes on final electricity consumption for the part consumed on site.

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