Beneficiaries

• Consumers

What does this accounting service option provide?

This accounting serviceallows energy flows to be distributed between a lead site and a hosted site (site en décompte)based on RTE’s 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 customer, 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 You are then required to:

• contract with RTE an Optional Services Contract (Contrat de Prestations Annexes) in order to subscribe to the "accounting service : Option A”, and choose the billing terms (cheque, wire transfer or direct debit).

• accept your CART update, taking into account the new meters.

• inform your balance responsible party of the subscription to the accountingservice.

• where relevant, accept the update of your operating agreement.

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 ordre to subscribe to the "accounting service : Option E", 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). 

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 client holds a CART for consumer customers or a CART for generator customers.

The minimum duration of subscription for the service is one year. If the service is terminated, RTE shall, at its cost, proceed with the removal of the metering equipment associated with the service previously subscribed to.

Note: Installation of RTE meters requires HV lockout. Until they are installed, it is possible to subscribe to a accounting servicebased on the declaration of data. See “Identifying the energy flow of a hosted consumer - declaring mode”.

Service tariff or fee

For the lead customer

The fees consist of:

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

• Of a set annual management fee: 360 Euros/year.

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: 360 Euros/year.

To this are added the metering fees provided for in the TURPE:

• Annual metering component HV-B per meter: see the fees in the brochure on  the Understanding the public transmission system access tariff (TURPE) page.

• This rate is updated annually as of 1 August.

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)

• 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.