Electricity networks are evolving and modernizing: integration of new smart grids technologies allowing monitoring and assets management, new uses such as electromobility, implementation of territorial optimization projects… This site visits program will present you the projects deployed as part of SMILE, a major initiative in France and a showcase for the French expertise of smart grids.
You will visit the “power grid control tower”, where the medium-voltage grid and associated source substations are monitored in real time, 24 hours a day, and where electrical “incidents” are managed. The Drop’n Plug smart charging station will showcase the new uses of electric mobility and its interactions with the grid. Last but not least, Rennes Grid is a global territorial energy transition project combining the development of renewable energies, collective self-consumption and demand management solutions.
SMILE association, Bretagne Développement Innovation and Solutions&Co in partnership with multiple projects stakeholders.
1) Smile showroom: a global vision of the Smile project, gathering more than 200 partners, and the 50 or so approved projects
2) Visit of Enedis’ Power grid control tower
3) Drop’n Plug intelligent charging station, project led by Drop Bird, in partnership with SICAME, Eiffia, Seifel, IETR, Wi6labs, La Poste, Honda, Rennes Métropole, Nantes Métropole, Saint-Malo Agglomeration,
4) Rennes Grid, a global territorial energy transition project led by Schneider Electric in partnership with Enedis, Enercoop, Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, Rennes Métropole, CNRS, Langa and the City of Bruz
Participants wil be taken care of all day long – lunch and transport included.
- 8.10 am: departure from Paris, Montparnasse station
- 9 am: delegation assembly point, in Rennes TGV station
- 9.30 am: Drop’n Plug smart charging station visit
- 11 am: Reception at SMILE showroom
- 12 : lunch on site
- 1:30 pm : departure to “Enedis’ Power grid control tower “
- 2.30 pm: visit of Rennes Grid
- 4 pm: return to Rennes station
- 6 pm: return to Paris
Smart electric grids, electric mobility, smart charging, V2G, flexibility, smart neighborhood, collective self-consumption, energy demand management, business model
Location: Bretagne Development Innovation, 1 bis route de Fougères, 35510 Cesson Sévigné (Brittany, France)
Languages: French / English
Tel/email: Elodie Boileux 06 42 39 12 25 / e.boileux@bdi.fr – Francoise Restif 06 74 09 05 86 / f.restif@bdi.fr
Visiting hours: 9:30 am to 4pm
Capacity of reception: maximum 50
Online resources:
Website: https://smile-smartgrids.fr/en
Smile project : https://smile-smartgrids.fr/en
Drop’n Plug project: https://smile-smartgrids.fr/en/projects/en-dropn-plug.html
Rennes Grid project : https://smile-smartgrids.fr/en/projects/en-rennesgrid.html