Beneficiaries

• Consumers

What does this accounting service option provide?

This accounting service allows energy flows to be distributed between a lead consumption site and a hosted site(site en décompte) based on a declaring metering mode, while awaiting installation of RTE meters.

If you are a lead site, this service allows you to differentiate energy flows corresponding to a hosted site.

If you are a  hosted site, this service allows you to isolate your energy flows and freely exercise your choice of electricity supplier. Your flows will be assigned to the balance responsible party of your choice, which may be separate from the one chosen by the lead customer.

How do I subscribe?

Each customer must subscribe to an accounting service with RTE.

The contracting steps are as follows

You are a lead customer:

You need to request RTE to install meters While awaiting installation of RTE meters, you are required to

• contract with RTE an Optional Services Contract (Contrat de Prestations Annexes) in order to subscribe to the "accounting service Option B”, and choose the billing terms (cheque, wire transfer or direct debit).
• accept the CART update proposed by RTE, to take into account the new meter.
• inform your balance responsible party of the subscription to the metering service.
• where relevant, accept the update of your operating agreement.

During the subscription of the service, you must declare the metering data of the hosted site in the manner defined by RTE in the form.

Note: if you have more than one hosted site, you need to subscribe to as many services as there are hosted sites

You are a hosted customer (client en décompte):

• You need to contract with RTE an Optional Services Contract in order to subscribe to the "accounting service Option F", and choose the billing terms (cheque, wire transfer or direct debit).

• You then need to designate a balance responsible party for your site by providing an attachment agreement (Appendix 3.A5 available in Chapter 3 « Balance Responsible Party System» of the Market Rules). 

Note: Once RTE meters have been installed, the contracts will be modified so that customers subscribe to the service "Identifying the energy flows of a  hosted consumer".

Conditions

To subscribe to this option:

The hosted site

• is located downstream of the lead customer site Connection Point(s).
• is a consumption site.
• has a different SIRET number from the lead customer site.

The lead customer holds a Consumer CART.

The RTE metering installation is planned.

Service tariff or fee

For the lead customer

The charges consist of:

• A fee for management costs on subscription to the service: 3360 Euros.

• Of a set annual management fee: 360 Euros/year. (2130 Euros/year from 1/01/2021).

• When the data transmitted by the customer is corrupted or incorrectly formatted, it is subject to a new declaration on its part. In the event that corrupt or improperly formatted data is spread over more than 10% of the days of the reporting period, the new reporting will result in a 50% increase in the amount charged for the reporting period. Otherwise, or for any declaration outside the time limit, the increase is 60.00 € per re-declared day.

These fees are billed semi-annually.

For the hosted customer

The charges consist of:

• A fee for management costs on subscription to the service: 3360 Euros

• Of a set annual management fee: 2130 Euros/year

• If applicable, a fee for management costs related to the modification/reconfiguration of the service. This includes the balance responsible party change: 2560 Euros per modification/reconfiguration.

These fees are billed semi-annually.

Reference documentation

For further information, please access to the library to read following documents:

• Optional Services Contract (2022/04/01 version)
• Metering data declaration form (2021/01/01 version)
• SEPA mandate (if applicable)
• Market Rules relating to the Balance Responsible Party system (Chapter 3 of the Market Rules) available in the « Mechanisms and Optional Services » section/ « Market rules -valid» sub-section 
• Form "Procedures for carrying out the tariff simulation"

Contact

For additional information, please contact your usual account manager or the generic email address of your customer service.