Traduction de «point hors réseau » (Français → Anglais) :

(5a) 'Off-peak charging' means a combination of two situations: a low price on the wholesale electricity market and low demand on the electricity grid.

3. Underlines the numerous benefits of smart grids in terms of lowering greenhouse gas emissions, increasing the share of renewable energy and distributed generation, ensuring the security of supply to households, creating the conditions required for the efficient use of electricity in transport, giving consumers the ability to adapt their consumption in order to benefit from the lowest prices and at the same time save energy, improving energy efficiency, saving electrical power, reducing costly investments in electricity grids by using energy outside peak periods, boosting EU technology innovation and development; stresses the need for citizen involvement at every stage including the deployment of advanced metering infrastructure that pro ...[+++]vides a two-way flow of information, also in activities planned by the distribution system operators (DSOs) and providers of smart grid technologies; points out, also, that the development and use of smart grids greatly reduces energy loss during transmission and distribution; highlights that automatic grid reconfiguration can be used to prevent or restore outages owing to its self-healing capabilities; notes, however, that national support systems in various regions often do not prioritise the most effective means of applying renewable technologies for private households;

However, we also see some good points in the resolution: for example, the focus on off-grid renewables for rural areas and small-scale local production, as well as the concern about the dominance of export orientation, large-scale plants and bio fuels.

Recently, the Canadian National took a rate action consisting of adding two off-line points to their tariffs.

These modifications concerned in particular: - the supression of all purely quantitative criteria as regards the access to the distribution network, and the introduction of a procedure for automatic admission of new distributors, subject only to the application of certain qualitative criteria and a delay of 12 months; - an express recognition of the freedom of the distributor to determine its own retail prices; - the liberalisation of cross-sales among authorized retailers established within the same Member State; - the supression of certain contractual provisions which would result in the restraint of the liberty of the distributor in being able to sell the products to other members of the network (change of the rules concerning both th ...[+++]e calculation of the minimum level of annual purchases and the control by the manufacturer of the distributors' invoices); - the liberalisation of passive sales of new products to outside the territory from where they were officially launched; Furthermore, Yves Saint Laurent Parfums has undertaken to ensure that the minimum level of annual purchases imposed on distributors be set in such a way that its amount does not exceed 40% of the average purchase figure achieved during the previous year, by all the retail outlets within a Member State.

Indeed, following decisions taken by the French authorities, VICHY has opened its distribution network in France to sales outlets other than retail pharmacies subject to the condition that the seller has a diploma in pharmacy.