EDF - Introduction

Electricity generation is central to the new global equilibrium we have to achieve, intimately related to environmental protection and future climatic contingencies.

Against this backdrop, the sustainability of nuclear power plants, the integration of new technologies and innovation in the field of renewable energies and storage are just some of the challenges the EDF Group has to take up

• Making our nuclear power plants last 60 years
• Integrating new technologies to make operation more efficient
• Innovating in the fields of renewable energies and storage
• Tools to detect the aging of the electronic components of process control system of nuclear power plants
• An important advance in the life assessment and maintenance of the internal structures of reactor vessels

• Wind power
• Marine turbines
• Photovoltaïc
• Hydro
• Lightning protection

the future challenge

EDF R&D has built a scenario that allows to shift out the direct fossil energy use in buildings, without increasing dramatically the electricity uses. This scenario is based on the dissemination of existing best technologies, as efficient thermal insulation, heat pumps and biomass for space heating, and solar. It has been published in the french foresight monthly journal "Futuribles" buildings without any fossil energy in France in 2050 ?