PublishedJune 2, 2022, 4:22 p.m.
The National accepted Thursday a motion to this effect from the future former parliamentarian Frédéric Borloz (PLR / VD).
To resell their surplus electricity, the owners currently have to pay a transport stamp which is sometimes more than half of the total price of electricity, which is not profitable.
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People who produce their own electricity must also be able to market it. The National accepted Thursday, by 140 votes once morest 48, a motion by Frédéric Borloz (PLR / VD) which demanded that all private power producers who have production facilities that are oversized in relation to their needs can have access to electrical network.
L’Aiglon, who is preparing to leave the National to join the Vaud Council of State, explained in his text that in the event of a surplus, the current is injected into the network of the place where the production is located at the average price of the running. However, this price does not allow the private installation to be profitable because transport represents the largest part of the final cost invoiced.
Indeed, the owners currently have to pay a transport stamp which is sometimes more than half of the total price of the current, he explained. The Vaudois therefore asked that it be possible for private electricity to be distributed between several owners on a given territory (municipality or canton), without having to pay this stamp.
The Federal Council rejected the motion. “As long as free market access is not established, small end customers cannot extract the electricity produced in their vicinity. They can only do so within the framework of self-consumption”, replied the services of Simonetta Sommaruga. But according to Bern, the opening of the market, as it is planned within the framework of the current revision of the law on the supply of electricity, will partly respond to the request of Frédéric Borloz.
Clearly, that wasn’t enough for the National.
