Innovating with renewable energies
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The GDF SUEZ’s R&D team is testing innovative solutions to improve the efficiency of renewable energy production facilities. It also takes part in the development of new technologies in this area.
Innovating with renewable energies, a necessity for GDF SUEZ
Renewable energies are both an alternative to the depletion of fossil fuels and a solution to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Proposing improvements for the short term…
The Group’s R&D team works in collaboration with various research institutes and universities on projects endorsed by competitiveness clusters and financed by ADEME (Agence de l’Environnement et de la Maîtrise de l’Energie) or the French national research agency ANR.
Within that framework, it tests new biomass fuels such as agriculture by-products (wheat bran, rape cake) or fuels stemming from energy crops (crops grown solely for energy purposes).
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GDF SUEZ has initiated several projects of electricity-generating plants powered by biological waste:
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… and for the longer term
In the “Phytopop” project, the objective is to exploit the potential of poplar in terms of phytoremediation, i.e. the cleaning-up of polluted soils through plants capable of extracting heavy metals. Cylergie conducts combustion tests on the poplars collected, under controlled conditions. Once the safety of the process has been confirmed, the project will exploit the energy potential of this contaminated resource.
Work is also underway on new energy storage materials and advanced control systems, as well as their possible integration in collective wood-burning heating systems.
