Power quality regulation and standardisation — The French example

The deregulation of the electricity market in Europe obliges all the actors to publish in full transparency the rules, contracts … between the Network operators and the users of the network. These rules and contracts shall be non discriminatory. In France a Special Working Group, under the responsibility of the French Authority, has been established to publish the power quality part of the connection rules to the network. In other word this document will describes the right and duties of all parties in order to provide a good quality on the networks. The work is of course based on the European Directives, the French laws and decrees and the related standards. The aim of this article is to described the French views and how all the set of reference documents is organized.