As part of the public distribution of electricity, and subject to the authorisation provided for in Article 7 of Law no. 2000-108 du 10 février 2000 précitée, les autorités concédantes de la distribution d’électricité visées au I de l’article L. 2224-31 may develop, operate directly or have operated by their electricity distribution concessionaire any local electricity production facility with a capacity below a threshold set by decree, when this facility is such as to avoid, under good economic, quality, security and safety conditions for the electricity supply, the extension or reinforcement of the public electricity distribution networks under their jurisdiction.