Rule by Nine - Smart Cities - EDF France · The Spanish city of San Cugat del Vallès is located in the Catalonia region and has a population of over 86,000. Since 2012, the EDF subsidiary

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RULE OF NINE9 topics in 9 booklets

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That is 81 ways that demonstrate how EDF is engaging in the energy transition. Month after month, topic after topic,

action after action, we will share with you our progress and our emblematic achievements.

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Through its regional involvement, range of expertise and public service mission, EDF group is the natural partner for cities and local communities to join them in building innovative energy solutions and customised services. So that the city becomes synonymous with quality lifestyle.

9 ways that demonstrate how EDF designs and coordinates innovative and customised solutions to build smart, low-carbon, connected and responsible cities.

Combating climate change and air pollution, adopting new uses, aspiring to greater safety, solidarity and civic engagement. By 2050, 70% of the world’s population will live in cities. So the smart cities of tomorrow – especially megacities – will be at the centre of numerous challenges. To achieve the energy transition and improve quality of life and connectivity, cities must work towards their transformation while applying the highest standard of economic performance. To bring about this paradigm shift, they will have to come up with new models and roll out innovative solutions.

Cities: key players in the energy transition

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What are the aims for local stakeholders?Catherine Lescure: Cities and local communities want to be central players in the energy transition, especially through their Climate, Air and Energy Plans. These action plans are highly ambitious when it comes to developing local renewable energy, the energy efficiency of buildings and new forms of low-carbon urban mobility. In response to the issue of air quality – also a public health issue – the City of Paris announced that diesel vehicles must be phased out by 2024 and petrol vehicles by 2030. This will usher in a major change and EDF will be right there to help make the transition.

How can EDF group contribute to the energy transition?Catherine Lescure: The energy transition is happening here and now. We will need to adopt a collaborative and decentralised approach in tackling this challenge, to make our cities more pleasant to live in, in other words, low-carbon, connected and responsible. By bringing together experts from complementary business sectors – developers, construction contractors and energy suppliers, we can deliver solutions adapted to the specific situation of each region. Take the example of the particularly dynamic Greater Paris region, which plans to build 68 new railway stations by 2030 and 70,000 new dwellings each year for the next 25 years. These developments are all opportunities for EDF to leverage its technology and innovations for a better Greater Paris region. The Group has won several calls forprojects as part of the Grand Paris Metropolis, involving contributions from all its subsidiaries.

What is EDF group’s role?Catherine Lescure: EDF and its subsidiaries, namely Dalkia, EDF Énergies Nouvelles, Citelum and Sodetrel, have the breadth of expertise to take up these challenges: solar and geothermal energy, heating networks, self-consumption, urban agriculture, energy performance contracts, electric mobility and smart charging, smart lighting, digital platforms for urban management, etc. And by combining that expertise with our extensive knowledge of local and regional stakeholders, we can forge together all the technological components that make the decisive difference. This enables us to provide innovative, comprehensive and customised solutions under the EDF Energy Solutions banner, while bringing startups on board as well. With just one purpose in mind: serve cities and their residents.

CATHERINE LESCURE

Regional Delegate Île-de-France.

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For far too long, cities and nature have competed against each other. Yet humans have a physiological need for contact with nature. And nature is crucial for cities, as it reduces heat islands, captures CO2 emissions and contributes to citizens’ well-being.The 2017 Low-Carbon Competition organised by EDF attracted four multi-disciplinary teams of architects, urban planners, designers, and energy and sustainable development design fi rms.

Their objective was to create a low-carbon future for the La Jallère neighbourhood in Bordeaux by developing an overarching forward vision for the city. Covering around 10 hectares, this neighbourhood comprises green spaces, buildings dating from the 1970s and shaded parking areas. In its utopian vision, the winning project “Palun 15%, landscape, energy and humanity in 2050” plans to reinstate nature in its primordial role of carbon sequestration in forests and peat bogs.

BORDEAUX: WHERE THINGS ARE CHANGING

INVENTING THE LOW-CARBON ARCHITECTURE OF TOMORROW’S CITIES


The Spanish city of San Cugat del Vallès is located in the Catalonia region and has a population of over 86,000. Since 2012, the EDF subsidiary Citelum has been working daily with the local authorities to make it a smart city leader. Citelum provides three types of services in San Cugat. The first is public lighting with the introduction of a new master plan, the installation of a smart lighting system that lights up when pedestrians pass by, and the refurbishment of light points with LED bulbs to cut down light pollution, reduce the power bill and enhance the city’s architectural heritage. The second area involves urban mobility with the rollout of a remote management system to operate traffic lights and smooth traffic flows.And lastly, Citelum is involved in improving the safety of citizens. Both real and perceived, this safety has been enhanced with new street lighting, the installation of retractable bollards and a network of video surveillance cameras. Recently, Citelum installed an innovative sound level sensor system on the lighting fixtures to detect excessive noise levels on terraces. All this equipment is managed from the Muse® digital platform. For a safer, more attractive and more efficient city, and enhanced quality of life for everyone.

A SMART CITY IN CATALONIA

SAN CUGAT DEL VALL S RETHINKS

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9 HIGH SCHOOLS GET A MAKEOVER IN SOUTH EASTERN FRANCE

A REGION INVESTING TO UPGRADE ITS ASSETS AND REDUCE ITS ENERGY CONSUMPTIONAccounting for 45% of energy consumption and 25% of CO2 emissions in France, the building sector poses a major environmental challenge for cities and local communities. They need to ensure the future of their buildings – especially schools that are heavy energy users – and guarantee their comfort, and economic and thermal performance.After the energy refurbishment of 100 primary schools in Paris, the EDF subsidiary Dalkia is now renovating the 9 least energy-effi cient high schools in the Rhône-Alpes region. The work will involve adding thermal insulation to the façades and roofs, replacing wood structures, installing solar panels on the roofs, connecting to the district heating network using renewable energy, improving access for people with reduced mobility and managing various facilities. The project will also include energy coaching for students and staff to reduce waste. In all, 20,000 sq. metres of façades will be renovated, and 5,000 sq. metres of woodwork installed. With renewables accounting for 22% of their energy, the 9 high schools will cut their energy bill by 40% and reduce their CO2 emissions also by 40%.


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For cities and their residents, heating and hot water are signifi cant budget lines and a major source of CO2 emissions. Charleville-Mézières therefore decided to green up and extend its heating network, and provide cheaper energy. In response to that mandate, the EDF subsidiary Dalkia has designed an innovative circular economy loop that recovers the unavoidable energy produced by automaker PSA’s foundry furnaces located to the south of the city. This energy can then supply the heating networks serving several neighbourhoods. This local,

recoverable and renewable source of energy is backed up by a small 500 KW biomass plant.This “city-industry” partnership is a win-win strategy. PSA has reduced its environmental footprint by recovering unavoidable heat. Charleville-Mézières will obtain 60% of its heating needs from this renewable energy at a stable and competitive price. And Dalkia has extended the heating network from 3 to 8.9 km while simultaneously reducing CO2 emissions by two-thirds.


Simultaneously convert an industrial wasteland and contribute to the energy transition: this was the challenge taken up by Dalkia in Smartseille, an experimental eco-district in the Euroméditerrannée area between the commercial harbour, the Vieux Port and Marseille’s main train station. The solution involved harnessing the abundant thermal energy available from the sea to heat and cool the buildings. The water is pumped at a depth of four metres in the port and sent to a station where an exchanger extracts part of the seawater’s energy, transferring it to a fresh water network that flows through the buildings. The seawater is then simply discharged back into its natural environment. Depending on needs, heat pumps in the buildings convert the energy into heating, hot water or air conditioning. As a result, 75% of the eco-district’s heating and cooling needs are provided by this renewable energy. The performance is both economic and environmental, as this seawater solution reduces consumers’ energy bill by 30% and CO2 emissions by 80%. Offices and homes swap their power as needed. For example, the heat in the offices is used to heat water for the neighbouring homes. HEAT TRANSFER

IN SMARTSEILLE (MARSEILLE)

AN ENTIRE ECO-DISTRICT USING THE SEA’S THERMAL ENERGY


FROM ELECTRIC VEHICLE TO REGIONAL TRAIN

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ELECTRIC INTERMODAL TRANSPORT

Cities are increasingly becoming life-size laboratories for testing and rolling out new uses. Take the example of mobility which is on the brink of an unprecedented transformation. In response to urban congestion and atmospheric pollution, cities are coming up with new

solutions to develop alternative forms of mobility. Working with the EDF subsidiary Sodetrel, the Hauts-de-France

region, in northern France, is trialling an innovative electric intermodal solution aimed at encouraging electric

commuting from home to the station. With their electric Pass Pass, residents can access both the public transport

network (TER: regional express trains) and 160 electric vehicle charging stations. As a result, they can travel

all-electric from the fi rst kilometre to the last. For cities and local communities, this intermodal solution

is an opportunity to subsidise mobility initiatives taken by their citizens and encourage low-carbon travel.

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Capital of the Duchy of Burgundy and the city of one hundred bell towers, Greater Dijon has gone headlong into the 3.0 era. Its 260,000 residents and 24 municipalities will soon have access to a system unlike any other in France: the centralised and connected management of public facilities. Traffi c lights, public lighting, video protection, road maintenance, city centre access points, and more – all these services will be remotely managed by Muse®, the collaborative platform for managing public spaces designed by the EDF subsidiary Citelum. In the event of a traffi c accident or congestion, drivers will be notifi ed in real time using variable message signs, and an alternative route will be suggested. Road junctions will also be managed remotely to keep traffi c fl owing smoothly and to balance the priority on public transport over private cars. Sensors, cameras and geolocatable vehicles (police cars and rubbish trucks) will collect data that will be analysed in real time to trigger and track any response operations. Another focus of the programme is to refurbish public lighting with the conversion of 34,000 light points to LEDs. Modernising the city’s lighting will save 65% on the lighting bill and 50% on maintenance costs. A key choice in this project is to use open data, to make public spaces safer, improve the quality of road services and increase civic engagement.

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The rapid growth of certain urban areas brings with it considerable energy and environmental issues. For example, the seaside resort of Sanya on Hainan Island, China, with its crystalline water and long white sand beach, is attracting a growing number of tourists from the world over. And what does that mean? Hotels and shopping malls are mushrooming around the city. Concerned about managing the impact of this urbanisation on the environment, the local authorities turned to EDF and Changfeng Energy for assistance. The two partners are installing a next-generation decentralised energy system with an integrated multi-energy plant. It produces chilled water with back-up ice storage at night to supply the air conditioning network during the daytime. It also produces domestic hot water using solar thermal panels, heat pumps and stored energy. And of course, it produces electricity. The network has been designed to supply power for about 20 hotels, shopping malls and a hospital. Managed by a smart system and coupled with solar panels installed on the buildings, it will reduce the city’s CO2 emissions by 20%.

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9 ways that show why EDF group is the trusted partner of smart and responsible cities, providing energy solutions and customisable services designed by working closely with local policy-makers. In France and worldwide.

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Editorial design: Communication Division.Design: Copyright registration: ISSN pending.Author: Antoine Blachez.Translation: Alto.

Photo credits:Getty Images/PeopleImages – Dong Wenjie – Westend61 (cover), Getty Images/eraldyne Herrera/EyeEm – © EDF Jean-Baptiste Baldi (p. 02-03), Getty Images/Image Source, © Agencies: Hame/Fuso/Bom (p. 04-05), Getty Images/Westend61 (p. 06-07), Getty Images/Hero Images – Jean-Philippe Tournut (p. 09), Getty Images/Metamorworks (p. 10-11), Getty Images/James O’Neil (p. 12-13), Getty Images/Bartek Szewczyk/EyeEm (p. 15), Getty Images/Gonzalo Hernández Araujo – © EDF/Don Baylet – Olivier Guerrin – Guillaume Murat (p. 16-17), Getty Images/View Stock, Todor Tsvetkov (p. 18-19), Getty Images/Clu – © EDF/Guillaume Murat – Shutterstock (back cover).

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action after action, we will share with you our progress and our emblematic achievements.

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