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Innovating in the fields of renewable energies

Renewable energies will play an increasingly important role in the energy landscape in Europe and worldwide owing to concerns about energy independence, rising fossil fuel prices and climate change.
Eco-Alternative, an EDF subsidiary specialized in renewable energies, installs solar thermal systems approved by the French Environment and Energy Management Agency (Ademe). Clipsol manufactures the solar panels.

Assessing and anticipating the availability of renewable energies

Their ready availability or lack thereof will need to be matched with the flexibility of consumption and the other generation technologies in use: nuclear, fossil-fired and hydro. Against this backdrop, electricity and heat storage will be one of the keys to easing these constraints.

This challenge focuses on technology monitoring and experimenting with technically available systems using renewable energies and with electricity and heat storage, not ruling out, in certain cases, development in-house and through partnerships.

Developing technical watch and experimentation

The projects planned include:

  • Renewable energies: photovoltaic and thermal solar, hydro turbines and ocean energy
  • Storage: compressed air energy storage, NaS batteries and inertial storage

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