Question 13273 — local authorities

Summary

Mrs. Alix Fruchon draws the attention of the Minister of Territorial Planning and Decentralization to the future of the municipal block in the competence of organizing authority for public electricity distribution. During his closing declaration of the meetings of the departments, on November 13, 2025, the Prime Minister announced the upcoming tabling of a bill relating to decentralization and the exercise of certain policies public at the local level. On this occasion, he spoke of the desire to make the departments leaders in “local networks”, particularly in terms of electricity and gas. However, the competence of organizing authority for electricity distribution has historically constituted, since the law of June 15, 1906, a competence devolved to the municipal bloc. If the faculty was opened in 1930 to the departments to become an organizing authority, only two of them exercised this competence until this possibility was definitively closed in 2004. Today, the unions, formed at the departmental level and largely bringing together the municipalities, effectively carry out this mission. They provide structuring and essential investments for the maintenance and modernization of networks, particularly in rural areas, but also to support the electrification of uses as part of the energy transition. The work of the regional audit chambers has also underlined the solidity and relevance of these organizations, which guarantee pooling, equalization and proximity. In this context, any development which would lead to the transfer of this competence to the department would pose a risk of institutional instability on a proven and operational model, then even though networks require massive and continuous investments. Also, she asks him if the Government has formally consulted the municipalities and their unions on this orientation if it is indeed considering modifying the current organization of the competence of the organizing authority of the public electricity distribution networks.

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