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SysFlex: a European project to prepare the electrical system for an renewables penetration rate of more than 50%.

26 Mar 2018

[leap_dropcap style=”style-1″]I[/leap_dropcap]rish operator EirGrid, together with EDF and 32 other partners, have been selected by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 programme to develop ways to integrate large quantities...

A second wave of projects for the Flexgrid programme

12 Mar 2018

[leap_dropcap style=”style-1″]T[/leap_dropcap]he FLEXGRID programme is structured around some 40 projects. Among these projects such as Premio, Nice Grid, and Reflexe, were created even before Flexgrid was contracted by the State...

The CRE wants to make data a lever for the efficiency of the energy system

26 Feb 2018

[leap_dropcap style=”style-1″]A[/leap_dropcap]s part of its general mission to help the electricity and natural gas markets function properly, the French Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) has examined, in recent months, the problem...

Take-off of microgrids in France

26 Feb 2018

[leap_dropcap style=”style-1″]T[/leap_dropcap]he ratification of the decree on microgrids was adopted last February. A photovoltaic tariff that should soon introduce an investment premium; packaged offers proposed by suppliers such as EDF...

Smile Programme: Eight new projects approved

16 Jan 2018

[leap_dropcap style=”style-1″]I[/leap_dropcap]n recent weeks, the board of directors of the Smile association has approved eight new projects. A new proof of the vitality of the French, Breton and Loire sectors...

French Smart Grids start ups in fighting form

8 Jan 2018

[leap_dropcap style=”style-1″]S[/leap_dropcap]mart Grids are attracting an increasing number of young entrepreneurs. Their young companies need support to design the innovative services of tomorrow. For some years now, the French government...

Ademe is looking into the rise of demand response in France

4 Jan 2018

[leap_dropcap style=”style-1″]I[/leap_dropcap]n its recently published study “L’effacement de consommation électrique en France”, (“Erasure of Electricity consumption in France”) ADEME estimated that 70% of the industry’s technical and economically profitable sources...

Ademe launches an innovation competition for innovative start-ups and SMEs in Smartgrids

22 Dec 2017

[leap_dropcap style=”style-1″]T[/leap_dropcap]he Future Investment Programme has just launched a new call for projects “Innovation Competition”. The Competition aims to support projects that develop ambitious, innovative and sustainable methodologies, technologies, services...

COP23: Some progress in a gloomy context

6 Dec 2017

[leap_dropcap style=”style-1″]C[/leap_dropcap]OP23, which brought together delegates from nearly 200 countries in Bonn, from 6 to 21 November, detailed the process for committing signatories to the Paris Agreement, which will enter...