Etude de solutions de financement alternatives pour les investissements en matière d'éclairage public.

Abstract

This master thesis is about the implementation of a massive program of replacement of public lighting aiming to allow municipalities to reduce their energy bills while trying to reduce the burden on maintenance costs for the distribution network operator (DNO). To do this, the outbreak of LED technology is timely. The many benefits of this technology - the very long lifetime, their improved energy efficiency, the light quality they provide, and the commercial guarantees obtained - allow it to prevail over conventional technologies to achieve the objectives introduced above. Despite more than interesting returns on investment for these renovation projects of public lighting, from 1 to 5 years depending on the characteristics of public lighting parks, municipal budgets are unfortunately not sufficient and therefore these operations may not be achieved only based on these budgets. Therefore, alternative methods have been sought to enable the financing of these projects. It is in the context of the study of these alternatives that the subject of this thesis is positioned. The first goal was to identify a number of realistic alternatives in order to finance these projects. Several paths were studied : out-of-tag investment or operational leasing, and the management of the investment, fully or partially, by the DNO via his public service obligation. In order to compare these various alternatives, we studied their impacts for the various stakeholders that are the DNO, the municipalities and the households.