TotalEnergies contested on Tuesday any fraud surrounding energy savings certificates (EEC), contrary to what the Minister Delegate for Energy, Olga Givernet, said the day before, and said it was not subject to “any” sanctions. or fine.
In an interview with Le Parisien on Monday, the minister criticized five companies, including TotalEnergies, “for having misused the energy saving certificate system, one of the two main aids for renovation with MaPrimeRénov'”.
Only one of them, Hellio Solutions, will have to pay a fine of 2.4 million euros, the ministry told AFP. Hellio indicated on Tuesday that it would “immediately contact the Council of State for cancellation of this sanction based,” according to the company, “on an extensive reading of the energy code.”
According to Ms. Givernet, the fine will come “in addition to the cancellation of operations in which irregularities were observed (committed by the five, Editor's note) for an equivalent of 6 million euros in energy saving certificates” .
In an update sent to AFP, TotalEnergies indicates that “no financial sanction or fine accompanies” this cancellation. “There is therefore no fraud,” says the oil giant.
According to him, 32 TotalEnergies global renovation operations are affected by this cancellation, i.e. a cumulative volume of 0.4 TerraWatt-hours (TWHc, reference unit for CEEs), representing 2.8 million euros.
The group “wishes to provide clarifications on inaccurate comments” made in this interview, “contests the sanction” and will lodge an appeal with the Council of State, specifies TotalEnergies.
The group explains that the only criticism leveled at it relates to an overestimation of initial consumption during certain global renovation operations. However, he emphasizes, these “were determined by independent design offices and certified by organizations accredited by the State.”
“It is ultimately on the basis of data certified by state-accredited organizations that TotalEnergies is being blamed,” he believes.
The oil group also assures that it has “never requested an EWC for global renovation operations that have not been carried out”.
TotalEnergies also ensures that it practices “zero tolerance” in the face of fraud and says it is “favorable to strengthening controls”.
He passes the buck to the State, believing that “no doubt should be possible on the quality of the audits carried out by bodies accredited by the State and that is what is at issue in the present case.”
Also called into question by the minister, Dalkia, a 100% subsidiary of EDF, also denied on Monday “firmly the information contained in the article in Le Parisien”, stressing that it had not received a fine beyond the cancellation of EECs considered non-compliant.
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TotalEnergies contested on Tuesday any fraud surrounding energy savings certificates (EEC), contrary to what the Minister Delegate for Energy, Olga Givernet, said the day before, and said it was not subject to “any” sanctions. or fine.
In an interview with Le Parisien on Monday, the minister criticized five companies, including TotalEnergies, “for having misused the energy saving certificate system, one of the two main aids for renovation with MaPrimeRénov'”.
Only one of them, Hellio Solutions, will have to pay a fine of 2.4 million euros, the ministry told AFP. Hellio indicated on Tuesday that it would “immediately contact the Council of State for cancellation of this sanction based,” according to the company, “on an extensive reading of the energy code.”
According to Ms. Givernet, the fine will come “in addition to the cancellation of operations in which irregularities were observed (committed by the five, Editor's note) for an equivalent of 6 million euros in energy saving certificates” .
In an update sent to AFP, TotalEnergies indicates that “no financial sanction or fine accompanies” this cancellation. “There is therefore no fraud,” says the oil giant.
According to him, 32 TotalEnergies global renovation operations are affected by this cancellation, i.e. a cumulative volume of 0.4 TerraWatt-hours (TWHc, reference unit for CEEs), representing 2.8 million euros.
The group “wishes to provide clarifications on inaccurate comments” made in this interview, “contests the sanction” and will lodge an appeal with the Council of State, specifies TotalEnergies.
The group explains that the only criticism leveled at it relates to an overestimation of initial consumption during certain global renovation operations. However, he emphasizes, these “were determined by independent design offices and certified by organizations accredited by the State.”
“It is ultimately on the basis of data certified by state-accredited organizations that TotalEnergies is being blamed,” he believes.
The oil group also assures that it has “never requested an EWC for global renovation operations that have not been carried out”.
TotalEnergies also ensures that it practices “zero tolerance” in the face of fraud and says it is “favorable to strengthening controls”.
He passes the buck back to the State, considering that “no doubt should be possible about the quality of the audits carried out by bodies accredited by the State and that is what is at issue in the present case.”
Also implicated by the minister, Dalkia, a 100% subsidiary of EDF, also denied on Monday “firmly the information contained in the article in Le Parisien”, stressing that it had not received a fine beyond the cancellation of EECs considered non-compliant.
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