Smart Energy and Environment
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The new "Smart Energy and Environment" program is a result of the merging of three programs: Energy Storage, Smart Metering and Smart Grids.
Through this program, the Research and Innovation Department aims to analyze the contribution by so-called ‘Smart’ technologies (i.e., technologies based on an information and communications infrastructure used to monitor and control equipment) in all the activities in which the GDF SUEZ group has staked a position - in water, natural gas, electricity, heating and cooling. This assessment covers technical/economic, as well as environmental and social considerations.
The GreenLys demonstration project
After more than a year of preparation, the GreenLys demonstration project was endorsed by the Government through the favorable opinion of the General Commissariat for Investments. In connection with the call for Expressions of Interest in smart electric grids and systems (Smart Grids –Smart Metering) by ADEME, GDF SUEZ had positioned itself as a leading player in the GreenLys demonstration project consortium.
This consortium of industrial and research partners, including ERDF, GEG, Grenoble-INP, Schneider, Alstom and Atos… also involves the Grenoble and Lyons local authorities. This demonstration project has three goals:
- Identifying environmental and economic value creation through advanced management of demand and distributed production by incorporating energy complementarities;
- Placing the customer at the heart of the Smart Grid concept to make better use of opportunities for flexibility in energy demand and local production (1,000 residential customers and 40 tertiary customers);
- Create an economic, industrial and commercial view of the temporal deployment of the functions associated with Smart Grids: emergence of the economic signals, technologies and customer segments concerned, associated business models, changes in the regulatory area.
Linear (Local Intelligent Networks and Energy Active Regions), a major step in the attempt to build and implement Smart Grids
Linear is the most visible demonstration project on smart grids and smart metering in Belgium and enjoys vast support from the Flemish government. It is helping to prepare eventually for the large scale deployment of smart meters in Belgium, a key component in the deployment of the concept and Smart Grid solutions for residential customers. With this project, it is possible to acquire reliable knowledge and experience in smart grid technologies and the performance associated with them.
Laborelec is contributing by developing data gathering and supervision methods for field testing, by contributing its expertise to develop a boiler and smart heat pumps, by testing the concepts developed in its laboratory, and by assessing the impact of such smart applications on the quality of the low voltage electrical grid.
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Energy storage
Energy storage is one of the responses to the new problems encountered by electrical systems that are increasingly limited by new uses and the rapid development of renewable energies. In fact, these energies are intermittent for the most part, more or less predictable and rarely programmable. When energy is stored, it can be injected or extracted on demand; it can also be moved from one period to another. Energy storage also guarantees a secure supply of optimum quality.
In this area, the Group has undertaken several research projects, including SEARCH. Supported by the National Research Agency (ANR), it is managed by CRIGEN. Participants include the Atomic Energy Commissariat (CEA), Saint-Gobain and the Armines Laboratory of the Paris School of Mines. It involves the study of thermal storage on ceramics for adiabatic CAES (Compressed Air Energy Storage) and the study of cavities mined for the storage of compressed air.
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| SUEZ Environnement and Lyonnaise des Eaux, through their joint subsidiary Ondeo Systems, have been selected by the IBM Company to equip the 250,000 water meters of the residents of the Island of Malta (which is facing a serious water shortage) with remote meter reading technology. With the | |
