Glossary France

ADEME (Agence de l'Environnement et de la Maîtrise de l'Enérgie )
Agency of environment and energy use. Main tasks are the collection and publication of data as well as the function of an advisor in terms of energy-related questions. 

Bail emphytéotique
Leasehold, main way to secure land. Advantages of this contract: long endurance(18 - 99 years), during the whole contract period the operator possesses the wind energy converter of the appropriate location directly, he holds/receives a right in rem over the wind energy converter(s).

CODOA (Certificat ouvrant droit à l'obligation d'achat)
Certificat which (one) enables to receive the feed in tariff. This certificate is issued by the prefect of the appropriate 'Département' (province) or rather by DRIRE (regional administration for industry, research and environment. Here, the requirements are that the wind farm has to be situated in a ZDE and building permitted.

COM (Collectivités d'Outre-Mer)
French overseas territories are regions situated beyond the mother land France and which are ruled and administered by it as well. To this belong Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, Mayotte, French-Polynesia, Wallis and Futuna, Saint-Martin and Saint Barthélemy. For Saint-Pierre and Miquelon fixed feed in tariffs for wind energy exist.

CSPE (Contribution au Service Public de l'Electricité)
Contribution for the financing of the additional costs, which arise for the distribution network operator by paying the fixed feed in tariff. The CSPE is claimed for customers and goes to the operator as offset provision.

DOM-ROM (Départements et régions d'Outre-Mer)
Provinces and regions overseas which have a legal satus as provices as well as regions. The four DOM-ROMS are French-Guyana, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Réunion.

EDF (Eléctricité de France)
Biggest utility in France whose subsidiary RTE is the biggest grid operator of the country. Once a governmental concern. In the course of liberalisation changed into a public company in 2004. But 85% of the shares are still owned by the government.

Enquête publique
Public hearing. It is compulsory for every wind farm higher than 50 m. The hearing is organised by the prefects and takes place before deciding and handing out the building permission. The hearing lasts between 1 and 2 month and can be extended about 2 weeks eventually.

Étude d'impact
Environmental Impact Study. Compulsory for every wind farm higher than 50 m and important part of the application for building permission. Important points are the impact on landscape, animal and plant life as well as a noise emission study.

Loi POPE
Energy law from 13th July 2005 about legal reformations in the field of energy and in particular renewable energies.  

MEEDDAM (Ministère de l'Ecologie, de l'Energie, du Développement durable et de la Mer)
French ministery which is responsible for environmental questions. The ministery was founded in 2008 as comprises different ressorts: environment, energy, sustainable development and sea issues. In charge is minister Jean-Louis Borloo.

Plan 'Borloo'
National development plan for renewable energies. The 50-point-plan from MEEDDAT-minister Jean-Louis Borloo to advance renewable energies in France. The plan has been presented 17^th November 2008. Arrangements has been announced to prevent the landscape from impairement

Procédure ICPE (Installation classées pour la protection de l'environnement)
The government is planning a classification of wind energy converters as power plants which are harmful to the environment in principle. Possible changes would be: the prefect would assign about the necessity of a UVP and a public hearing. An appeal against the building permission would be possible up to 1 year after implementing a wind energy converter.

RTE (Réseau de transport de l'eléctricité)
Grid operator in France. Subsidiary of the utility EDF. 

PTF (Proposition téchnique et financière)
Suggestion due to technical grid connection and appropriate costs. The grid connection for a wind farm is secure if the PTF has been accepted and the first rate has been paid.

SER-FEE (Syndicat des Enérgies Renouvelables - Fédération de l'Énérgie éolienne)
French wind energy association.

ZDE (Zone de développement éolien)
Appropriate wind areas, whose proportions and installation capacities are defined by the 'Préfet d'un département' (Prefect of a province). To benefit from the legal feed in tariff, a wind farm has to be situated in a ZDE.