France – Electricity – Fourniture d'électricité produite en autoconsommation collective - Centrale d'achat-.

The Communauté d’agglomération d’Épinal has established itself as a purchasing centre to offer buyers subject to the Public Procurement Code, and having their registered office on the territory of the agglomeration, a device allowing to meet the objectives of simplification of the purchasing act, legal security and optimisation of expenditure. Thus, the Purchasing Centre acts as an intermediary in application of Article L.2113-2, 2° of the public procurement code for any buyer established on the territory of the agglomeration and assumes, for this purpose, the responsibility for the conduct of the procedures and their legality. The list of members taking part in the present consultation is attached in Annex 1 of the commitment act of the present contract. For the implementation of the object of this contract: • the purchasing centre, as coordinator, is the buyer in charge of the preparation, award, signature and notification of this contract and of any associated amendments; • each Participating Member is in charge, for its part, of executing the contract for what concerns it. The Participating Members have decided to get involved in an extended collective self-consumption operation within the meaning of Article 1bis of the Decree of 21 November 2019 setting the geographical proximity criterion for extended collective self-consumption, meeting the following cumulative criteria: • one of the producers or consumers participating is a commune or an EPCI with own taxation; • all the producers and consumers participating are public or private bodies exercising a public service mission or local mixed economy companies mentioned in Article L. 1522-1 of the CGCT and their subsidiaries; • the withdrawal and injection points are located exclusively within the geographical scope of the public cooperation establishment with own taxation participating in the project or to which the commune or communes participating in the project adhere; • by way of derogation, the cumulative power of the production facilities of the projects meeting the cumulative criteria of this derogation is less than 10MW. The purpose of the present contract is the supply of renewable electricity to the delivery points of the Participating Members, including the following services: • the non-exclusive supply of renewable electricity to the delivery points of the Participating Members, • the management and certification of the capacity guarantees and the guarantees of origin associated with these productions, • the mission of balance responsible associated with the injections of electricity from the production asset(s) in accordance with Article L. 321-15 of the energy code; • the conditions of the injection, on the public distribution network operated by the Distribution System Operator (DSO) Enedis, of electricity produced by the Producer of the production asset(s). The present contract takes effect from its notification to the Contracting Authority and until 31 December 2037 inclusive.