L R AS Published on Saturday 8 October 2016 - n° 163 - Categories:prices France
To benefit from the new support system for renewable energies, energy suppliers must renounce guarantees of origin.
The "green offers" of electricity suppliers are very difficult to guarantee. However, the law on energy transition published in August 2015 gave the producers of renewable electricity the opportunity to enhance its value by issuing guarantees of origin. But the decree published at the end of May 2016 stipulates,
It expressly states that they will have to renounce these guarantees if they want to benefit from the new support system for renewable energies, based on additional remuneration. In other words, subsidised green energies will not be able to benefit from these guarantees of origin.
Guarantees of origin have a twofold interest: they allow the producer to benefit from additional remuneration (currently a few tens of centimes per megawatt hour); and, above all, they provide the distributor with an essential marketing argument, enabling it to prove to its customer where the electricity sold comes from.
Today, alternative distributors with green offers, such as Direct Energie or Lampiris, buy their guarantees of origin either abroad or from non-subsidised producers (e.g. hydroelectricity). However, they also want to be able to use French wind and solar power.
At the beginning of September, Anode, the association of alternative suppliers, lodged an appeal with the Council of State.
Les Echos of October 6
