Energy storage. Meeting the Growing Demand for Flexibility

As a major global electricity operator, EDF manages a significant number of industrial assets to meet the needs of more than 37 million customers. Ensuring a supply-demand balance around the clock requires significant flexibility in the resources. With major advances in storage technologies and cost reductions, primarily for batteries, EDF is pro-actively investigating and testing services and value streams that distributed storage can provide to various locations, such as behind the meter, distribution, and transmission level interconnections. This brochure presents EDF Renewables' expertise and technical skills in: batteries and other storage technologies as a cost-effective addition to intermittent energy generation projects; distributed storage projects, R and D activities in: new battery technologies at lower costs and/or improved capabilities, stationary storage technologies for commercial electric vehicle, smart-grids, simulation tools, battery storage scheduling and real-time control systems, advanced forecasting tools, smart control systems and energy management algorithms. The company's global renewable energy presence in the Americas, Europe, Africa, India and Asia are summarized at the end of the document with the respective installed capacities