EDF R

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EDF RDCreating value and preparing for the
future
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The EDF Group
Italy Edison (50 ) 2 Italian utility
(electricitygas)
EDF Trading Volumes handled electricity (745
TWh) Gas (116 bcm) Coal (237 Mt) Oil (141 Mb)
Revenues 59,6 billion EBITDA 15,2
billion Customers in the world 37,8
million Employees in the world 156.500 Generatio
n 128,200 GW (installated capacity) 633 TWh
(generation)
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RD programmesrising to EDFs challenges
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EDF RD mission statement

• Mobilise expertise to support operational
  entities
• Conduct research and develop methodology and
  tools to improve operational performance of Group
  divisions and entities
• Pave the way for the future and establish new
  growth drivers for the EDF Group

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Covering all Group businesses
Electricitynetworks
Electricitygeneration
Energymanagement
Informationtechnologies
Sales andmarketing
Renewables andthe environment
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Generation

• Developing tools and methods to improve operating
  performance and optimise the useful life of
  generation facilities with a focus on safety
• Anticipating new environmental regulations

Development of CASSIOPEE,a new core calculation
sequenceusing fuel more safely and efficiently
Cordemais using numerical simulation to optimise
operating conditions and cut NOx emissions by
half
Chambon dam long-term and acceptable management
of sediment thanks to digital modelling
Understanding Alloy 600 corrosion mechanism to
optimize SG maintenance
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Energy management

• Developing valuation tools and models for
  generation assets to optimise EDFs complex and
  diversified energy mix
• Simulating competitive situations to better
  understand markets and how they evolve

EXODE model forecasting spot prices12 days
ahead of time
New daily production plan
Forecasting gas prices portfolios and marginal
sourcing costs (G, S, I, UK, F). Study on
regulating third-party access to gas storage.
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Transmission

• Extending the useful life of equipment
• Developing new technical solutions to maximise
  handling capacity of infrastructures and increase
  network availability
• Making the infrastructures as resistant as
  possible to extremeweather risks

Evaluation, for RTE, of available throughput
capacity and risks in the event of overload.
Extending the useful life of high-voltage circuit
breakers.
Analysing shutdowns and proposing preventive
measures for electronic components in network
protection equipment shutdowns avoided !
An economical solution for locating and stopping
SF6 leaks at stations without any isolation
measures or disassembly (experiment conducted at
Paluel).
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Distribution

• Optimising equipment and systems in a new
  environment asset management, specifications,
  trials and expertise
• Integrating new technologies to improve
  performance

Consumption forecasting tools (evaluation of
losses, network development, risk management...)
Evaluation and optimisation of useful life of
equipment (upgrades, maintenance, diagnostics...)
Preparing the next generations of interactive
Meters.
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Sales and marketing

• Delivering solutions for comfort, energy savings
  and renewable energies to residential customers
  heat pumps, insulation, renewable energies
  offers, micro-cogeneration, direct and remote
  energy saving services
• Assisting the Customer Division with pricing and
  customer support tools

Innovative insulation materials for renovation.
Trialling new services with residential and
business customers. Diag Conso, accompanying
residential customers in their renovation
projects.
Assisting the Customer Division for progress
contracts (utilities optimisation for
industrials).
High-temperatureheat pump.
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Renewable energy

• Identifying those breakthroughs that are
  susceptible of making certain technologies more
  or less competitive than others
• Making the most promising technologies an
  industrial reality to assure the Groups future
  growth

Photovoltaic CISEL - In partnership with the
CNRS and Paris School of Chemistry - Reducing
costs and improving yields and reproducibility
Marine current power Evaluation of potential in
France Helping EDF Energy develop a 1MW project
Wind power Resource forecasting Maintenance
optimisation
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A portfolio of Challenges for 2007-2009

• OUR WORLD
• Water anticipating the climate constraints on a
  shared resource
• Always improving the characterisation of the
  environmental impacts of our facilities

• GRIDS
• Preparing the distribution in 2015

• OUR OPTIMISATION
• Anticipating the new energy landscape
• Generation optimisation into the market
  re-establishing methods and tools
• Finding new flexibilities between consumption,
  generation and storage

• GENERATION
• Enabling 60 year lifespan to our nuclear power
  plants
• Integrating new technologies to operate more
  efficiently
• Innovating in renewable energies and storage

• CUSTOMERS
• Home and building developing technologies and
  services for energy efficiency
• Industry developing energy efficiency and new
  electric uses

SIMULATE AND DECIDE
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2007 budget 375 million
Networks andenvironment 11
Generation 50
Energy Management8
Sale Marketing 18
Transversal 13
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Nuclear RD orientations

• More efficient use of fuel
• Keeping all ageing under control (anticipate on
  generic issues and prepare for longer life time)
• Give convincing answers to environmental
  questions (impact of generation on environment)
• and reduce the impact of environment on
  generation !
• Integrate new technologies to improve
  performances
• Keeping external requirements at a reasonable
  level
• Numerical simulation, a tool central to our
  activities
• A growing concern maintaining competencies ?
  part to be plaid by RD in education and training
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RD for an effective life time management of IC

• What strategy for possible replacement ?
• Cost / benefits of partial replacement
• Develop test methodologies for requalification
• Recommandations to eliminate the risk of
  obsolescence of future equipments (European
  Project LOTUS in preparation)
• When to replace ? What residual life time ?
• Keep on assessing the generic risk of ageing
• What tools to detect and monitor ageing ?
• Coordination project MAGIC (EURATOM)
• Component behaviour in extreme climate conditions
• How to demonstrate that qualification is
  maintained ?
• Volume of spare parts procurement
• Budget and schedule
• Answer needs for 3rd 10-years outages of 1300 MW
  plants
• Total budget around 2,2 M par an

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The men and women of EDF RD
Renardières,France
Clamart,France
Karlsruhe,Germany
Chatou,France

• 2 000 individuals
• 30 women
• 78 researchers or managers
• 300 PhDs and 200 doctoral students
• 150 researchers who teach at universities and
  engineering schools

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RD working with othersexpanding its horizons
Major internationalpartners
Footholds in strategically important countries
Other electric cos


EPRI
Network of 5 Polish Univ (Wroclaw)
SINTEF
CEA
Thermal Power Research Institute (China)
Universités
CEMAGREF
Italie Boconi, Politecnico deMilan
CERFACS
IRSN
TSINGHUA Univ.
ANDRA
Nat. METEO
Karlsruhe Univ.IFARE, IFIB
CNRS
CETHIL (bâtiments)
EIfER
Natural partnerships in France
IDEA (distribution)
CEREA
GB EDF Energy
Pôles de compétitivité
Nouveaux hydraulique, économie...
AllemagneEnBW
UMR photovoltaics
Joint laboratories
Italie EDISON
UMR on mechanics
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EDF RDCreating value and preparing for the
future