To prepare its future, EDF Energies Nouvelles identifies innovative technologies and makes selective investments.
BIOMASS: expansion in a niche
EDF Energies Nouvelles has developed a biomass project in Spain involving the use of dried olive pulp as fuel. The facility is located in Lucena in Andalusia. It has an installed capacity of 26 MW and is able to process 180,000 tons of olive pulp annually.
BIOFUELS: partnership with a specialist
EDF Energies Nouvelles acquired a 25% stake in Alcofinance, a specialist in the production and the distribution of ethanol-fuel. A plant with 150,000 m3 in annual capacity entered in service in Ghent (Belgium) in 2008.
BIOGAS: strategic shareholdings
EDF Energies Nouvelles acquired shareholdings in Belgian company Verdesis and american company Beacon Landfill Gas Holdings in order to get the expertises and know-how to process biogas from waste landfills and treatment plants.
MARINE ENERGY: focus on waves
EDF Energies Nouvelles has a partnership with Carnegie, which holds the rights to the CETOtechnology, for the production of electricity from wave energy. This partnership has given EDF EN exclusive use of CETO technology in the northern hemisphere and on Reunion Island.
