Energy transition and green growth in France

Anne VARET Director for Research

ADEME France

• Energy transition and green growth in France: new law at the parliament

• How ADEME is participating to implementation of the objectives? Focus on RDI

• Beyond technologies – some further cooperations?

The new law in France for energy transition and green growth

• After a large debate among stake holders in 2013, a new law has been adopted by Government mid 2014 and voted by National Assembly in October 2014 (discussed by Senate in February 2015)

• Main objectives to comply with factor 4 in 2050 : • Reducing energy demand by 50% to 2050 • Increasing the share of renewable energy from 13,4% (2012) to 32% in

2030 • Reducing the share of nuclear from 75% to 50% in 2025

• Macro-economic evaluation done by ADEME shows that energy transition

could be beneficial for economic growth (GDP +3 points in 2050) and employment (+ 300 000 in 2030, + 800 000 in 2050) respectively to a scenario without energy transition

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Law made up of 8 sections

1. Define shared objectives for successfully bringing about the energy transition, increase France's energy independence and combat climate change.

2. Renovate buildings in order to save energy, reduce energy bills, create jobs and develop positive energy regions.

3. Develop clean transport systems in order to improve air quality and protect people's health.

4. Tackle waste and promote the circular economy from the product design through to their recycling.

5. Encourage the use of renewable energies in order to diversify our energy mix and make use of our regions' resources.

6. Make nuclear power safer and keep people better informed about it. 7. Simplify and clarify procedures for improving efficiency and being more

competitive. 8. Provide people, companies, regions and the state with the power to take

action together.

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ADEME activity as operator of public policy

ADEME is involved as Public Agency under the authority of Ministry of Energy, Environment, Sustainable Development and Research in the field of energy efficiency and renewable energy:

• Advices for the Government (on policies and measures) and developing tools for companies and local authorities

• Awareness campaigns and information of large public • Supporting investments in the field of heat production from renewable

energies and waste reduction • Supporting research and innovation for green technologies

A staff ~ 1 000

- 3 central sites (~50%)

- 26 regional directions

- 3 representations in overseas territories

- 1 office in Brussels

ADEME activities for energy and green growth transition

• Supporting research and innovation for new technologies and services (R&D, Investments for the Future)

• Funding demonstrators (ZEB, buildings rehabilitation, smart grids, vehicles, industrial processes…)

• Technical advices for regulations (buildings codes…) and labelling (buildings, equipment, cars), for energy efficiency obligation of energy suppliers and certificates, for financial and fiscal measures

• Tools development for GHG emissions inventory and reduction plans for communities, companies (tertiary, industrial, freight transport)

• Funding local programs with regional authorities

Strategy for Research, Development and Innovation 2014-2020

ADEME Doctoral Thesis

program

R&D Demonstrator

Fund

R & D Industrial development

R&D demonstrator

ADEME Financing

programme

ADEME’s “Investment for the future” field

Business development

RDI supported by the agency will focus on, among others: •devise responses to the expectations of society

•provide support for public authorities to help them build sustainable development policies that match these expectations

•accompany the emergence and implementation of a national offering of technologies and services that meet energy and environmental challenges

ADEME research program

Foster the emergence of new solutions/services,

energy and environmental

technologies, and options to combat

climate change

Produce contextual knowledge that is relevant and directly

usable by actors in the economy and in society, by accompanying research–

action projects

Accompany research that prefigures action on

standards, regulations, labels and certification

Strengthen the coordination of EU, national and regional

research work

Encouraging research to accompany the energy and environmental transition and the fight to mitigate climate change, with a view to paving the way and providing support for operational activities led by ADEME

Strategy for RDI 2014-2020, objectives

Support of RDI by ADEME

Specific program features

Doctoral thesis program

Research and development program

Investments for the future program

Type of funding PhD grants Mostly grants, and repayable grants

Grants, repayables grants and capital investment

Beneficiaries PhD students (3 year employment contract with ADEME)

Research bodies, companies, nonprofits and local authorities

Mostly companies

Type of project funded

Concept-Feasability Development – experimental implementation – research action – prenormative research

Demonstration Scale 1 Experimentation Initial industrial scale up

Project maturity / TRL

TRL 3 to 4 TRL 4 to 7 TRL 6 to 9+

Indicative amount of funding

100 k€ 50 à 300 k€ > 1 M€

Annual budget ~5 M€ ~25 M€ ~350 M€

Doctoral thesis with

ADEME Develop an R&D project

Finance an innovative

project

Private and Public funding of projects Public/Private Funding

M €

0

Pilot Project

Public/State Funding

Prototype

Private/Market Funding

Infrastructure

Industrialisation

Pre-industrialisation

Investment size

I

1

I

10 I

100

I

1000

I

10 000

Field Test

Development

Laboratory

R&D

R&D Demonstrator Fund 167 M€

ADEME IF Program 3 130M€

Industrialisation Development Industrialisation Development

Full Size Project

ADEME research program

Cooperation with private sector for green technologies innovation

• Investments for the Future: a fund for green energy technologies innovation set up by Government and managed by ADEME • 2 010 M€ on

Renewable energy and efficiency (740 M€ funded as end 2014) Smart grids (92 M€ funded as end 2014) Circular economy (84 M€ funded as end 2014)

• 1 120 M€ on future transports (road, railway, boats) (500 M€ funded end 2014)

• Co-investing in demonstrators projects and industrial experimentations proposed by companies (trigger effect = 3), public and private risk sharing

• Sharing innovation risk with companies for energy, environment, economic development and employment stakes

• Creating opportunities for international cooperation

Project size in M€

Time to market

20

10 médiane

Target : mainly companies

– 85% of credits – 50% of funded

companies are SBC and medium size

Innovative technologies :

research demonstrators, industrial research, experimental development, pre-industrial experimentation

Innovations in term of new markets or organizations

– Demonstrations such as marine energy farms or territorial experimentation

– Industrial experimentation – Technology platforms – First deployment

(recharging electrical vehicle infrastructure…)

25 average

What is funded through ADEME Investments for the future program ?

Demonstrators and industrial experimentations in the transport sector

• Technological innovations on cars : thermal (toward 2l/100 Km efficiency), Hybrid, electric…

• EV and hybrid charging infrastructures • Specific vehicles for urban use • Advanced mobility services

experimentations (car sharing, car pooling…)

• Innovative Railway • Innovative Ships 500 M€ funded by ADEME 2011 - end 2014

New concepts for buildings to avoid urban spreading - Dwellings exchanging energy

Positive energy or low consuming buildings: towards positive energy buildings in new construction/ refurbishing existing buildings at best performances through industrialization of construction Sustainable mobility: Urban mobility services and interoperability of transport modes, infrastructure for electromobility Smart grid at the scale of territories : Objective to integrate > 20% renewable into the grid and demand response with smart meters: 17 projects already launched (experiments in the cities of Lyon, Grenoble, Nice, Toulouse…, or in islands (Corse, Guadeloupe, Réunion) 35 000 households involved in DSM projects (12 projects)

Financing green innovation at territories scale

Smart grids experimentations: some examples

Renewable energy integration

Final consumer actor of the system

Optimization of energy production (renewable) and consumption with storage (flywheel) and DC network in an industrial zone

SMART ZAE NICEGRID

1500 households and companies involved in grid local management

Large experimentation : Renewable energy, smart counters, 1000 households, 40 commercial sites in Lyon and Grenoble.

GREENLYS

Storage, demand response and grid management

Consumer/producer

ERDF, ALSTOM, ATOS, CEA, Schneider Electric…

ERDF, EDF, ALSTOM, SAFT, RTE, … SCLE, LEVYSIS, …

35 000 households involved in DSM projects (12 smart grid Investments for the future projects) Results: • Providing households with information about their energy consumption is key to forging a “culture of energy” that will empower them to act upon their consumption. • But providing raw information does not guarantee energy savings • Support programs to foster behavioural change are necessary

Smart Meters and Demand Side Management

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