Opinion presented on the behalf of the Commission for economic affairs on the finance bill project for 2017 (nr 4061). Nr 4127, Volume V: ecology, sustainable development and mobility, energy

In its first part, this report comments budgets awarded to energy in the finance bill project for 2017 in two programs which respectively concern the implementation of the energy policy in France, the economic and social management of the post-mining era, the struggle against climate change, and the evolution of tax-related expenses for the first one, and the solidarity with areas which are not connected to the metropolitan grid, the protection of users in situation of energy poverty, the support to co-generation, and the energy mediator for the second one. The second part of the report discusses the issue of the future of self-consumption (collective self-consumption today and tomorrow, potential assets of collective self-consumption), outlines the need for a regulation to avoid abuses (risks related to an uncontrolled development of self-consumption, emergence of a legal and regulatory framework), and outlines the importance of setting a steady and virtuous framework