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 within 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 pursuant to Article L.2113-2, 2° of the Public Procurement Code for any buyer established within the territory of the agglomeration and, to this end, assumes responsibility for the conduct of the procedures and their legality. The list of members participating in the present consultation is attached in Annex 1 of the engagement act of the present contract. For the implementation of the object of this contract: • the purchasing centre, as coordinator, is the buyer responsible for the preparation, award, signature and notification of this contract and of any associated amendments; • each Participating Member is responsible, for its part, for executing the contract for what concerns it. The Participating Members have decided to commit to an extended collective self-consumption operation within the meaning of Article 1bis of the Decree of 21 November 2019 setting out the geographical proximity criterion for extended collective self-consumption, meeting the following cumulative criteria: • one of the participating producers or consumers is a commune or an EPCI with its own taxation; • all participating producers and consumers 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 its own taxation participating in the project or to which the commune(s) participating in the project are affiliated; • 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 present contract aims to supply the delivery points of the Participating Members with renewable electricity, 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 origin guarantees associated with these productions, • the role of balancing 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 for injecting, into the public distribution network operated by the Distribution System Operator (DSO) Enedis, 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.