2. Legislative and regulatory texts

Engineers in charge of connection studies today need to be familiar with the legislative and regulatory texts that underpin the relationship between distributor and producer for the connection and operation of distributed generation facilities.

It should be noted here that the term "distributor" applies not only to ERDF, France's main distributor, but also to all 170 local distribution companies, also known as ELDs, scattered throughout mainland France.

When it comes to decentralized generation, French DSOs consider that there have been two periods: before and after Law 2000-108 of February 10, 2000 (the law on the modernization and development of the public electricity service, also known as the law on the opening up of the electricity market).