Section 6: Energy

I.-Without prejudice to the provisions of article 23 of law no. 46-628 of 8 April 1946 on the nationalisation of electricity and gas, local and regional authorities or their public cooperation establishments, as licensing authorities for the public distribution of electricity and gas pursuant to article 6 of the loi du 15 juin 1906 sur les distributions d’énergie et de article 36 of the aforementioned law no. 46-628 of 8…

Subject to the authorisation provided for in Article 7 of the aforementioned Law no. 2000-108 of 10 February 2000, the municipalities, within their territory, and the public cooperation establishments, within the territory of the municipalities that are members of them, may, in addition to the possibilities opened up by the twelfth and thirteenth paragraphs of Article 8 of Law no. 46-628 of the aforementioned 8 April 1946, develop, operate, have…

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…

The public establishments for intercommunal cooperation and the Lyon metropolitan area, when they have adopted the territorial climate-air-energy plan mentioned in Article L. 229-26 of the Environment Code, are the coordinators of the energy transition. Within their territory, they lead and coordinate actions in the field of energy that are consistent with the objectives of the territorial climate-air-energy plan and with the regional climate, air and energy plan, or the…

Any electronic communications operator authorised by a local authority, by a public cooperation establishment competent for public electricity distribution, or by a public electricity distribution network operator to install a non-radioelectric overhead structure on a public electricity distribution network overhead line support shall, if this overhead line is replaced by an underground line at the initiative of the aforementioned local authority or institution, to replace its entire overhead line using…

Territorial authorities and their public cooperation establishments exercising the competence of organising authority for public electricity distribution networks may also ensure, as an accessory to this competence, in the context of the same operation and in addition to carrying out work relating to electricity distribution networks, the project management and maintenance of civil engineering infrastructures intended for the passage of electronic communications networks, including ducts and drawing chambers, subject to,…

Subject to a non-existent, insufficient or inadequate offer on their territory, municipalities may create and maintain charging infrastructures necessary for the use of electric or rechargeable hybrid vehicles or dockside vessels, as well as gas or hydrogen refuelling points for vehicles or vessels, or set up a service including the creation, maintenance and operation of such infrastructures or refuelling points. Operation may include the purchase of electricity, gas or hydrogen…

A consultative commission is created between any union exercising the competence mentioned in the second paragraph of IV of article L. 2224-31 and all the public establishments for intercommunal cooperation with their own tax status that are totally or partially included in the union’s perimeter. This commission coordinates the action of its members in the field of energy, brings their investment policies into line and facilitates the exchange of data….