EDF - Electricité de France
EDF Research & Development mission statement
- Mobilise expertise to support operational entities
- Conduct research and develop methodology and tools to improve operational performance of Group divisions and entities
- Pave the way for the future and establish new growth drivers for the EDF Group
Generation
- Developing tools and methods to improve operating performance and optimise the useful life of generation facilities with a focus on safety.
- Anticipating new environmental regulations.
Energy management
- Developing valuation tools and models for generation assets to optimise EDF’s complex and diversified energy mix.
- Simulating competitive situations to better understand markets and how they evolve.
Transmission
- Extending the useful life of equipment.
- Developing new technical solutions to maximise handling capacity of infrastructures and increase network availability.
- Making the infrastructures as resistant as possible to extreme weather risks.
Distribution
- Optimising equipment and systems in a new environment: asset management, specifications, trials and expertise.
- Integrating new technologies to improve performance.
Sales and marketing
- Delivering solutions for comfort, energy savings and renewable energies to residential customers:
- heat pumps, insulation, renewable energies offers,
- micro-cogeneration, direct and remote energy saving services.
- Assisting the Customer Division with pricing and customer support tools.
Renewable energy
- Identifying those breakthroughs that are susceptible of making certain technologies more or less competitive than others.
- Making the most promising technologies an industrial reality to assure the Group’s future growth.
For more information, visit EDF's website at
www.edf.fr.
