The New Business of French Electrical Market
EDF (hereinafter referred to as "EDF") is committed to changing its dependence on the traditional nuclear power business, actively expanding new businesses, exploring new business models, and focusing on the integrated and innovative development of technology and business.
Actively expand new business, pay attention to business incubation.EDF has been ramping up investment in new businesses such as renewable energy to balance nuclear power with renewable power. In 2011, it acquired Nouvelles, a renewable energy power generation company, and set up Electranova Venture Capital fund in 2012. It focuses on developing Dalkia, Edelia and other energy service subsidiaries to help customers improve energy use efficiency, deepen the digitization of power grid, build smart power grid and help smart cities.In 2017, "NewBusiness" innovation business management organization was set up under the Innovation Strategy planning Department of the Group. As an incubator of start-up companies, it focuses on energy efficiency management, smart home, energy cloud, urban sustainable development and other directions.
For successful incubators, EDF will consider establishing joint ventures with them or acquiring them as subsidiaries to integrate into the corporate ecosystem. Initially applied in the global business, provided application scenarios and initial market, and later assisted to promote to the company's customers or partners. Since 2012, it has incubated more than 2,000 start-ups.
With the help of emerging digital technology and advanced energy technology, smart grid will be built to realize digital transformation and upgrade existing business level.
1.To improve the quality of equipment assets data.
Collect equipment running status data, and provide decision support for multiple business departments.
It is planned to complete the installation and update of 35 million smart electricity meters and 600,000 concentrators by 2020, and take Linky ‘s new generation of smart electricity meters, as the core of strategic development, to drive the development of electric vehicles, smart cities, customer service and so on.
2.To build mature big data architecture and rich big data applications.
Build a company-level big data center, effectively manage and apply massive user data, assist each region to develop localized marketing service strategy, and avoid user loss, which can bring more than 30 million dollars of benefits every year;
Set up a complete set of user data analysis model, including customer complaint analysis, customer clustering and billing analysis model, etc., to comprehensively optimize the user's whole process experience, and achieve a decline of about 30% in the number of complaints in the past two years.
Pay attention to scientific and technological innovation, realize the integrated development of science and technology and business, and continue to cultivate new advantages.
First, give full play to strategic guidance and formulate a medium - and long-term technology research and development strategy (2030), focusing on the three strategic fields of smart grid, smart energy and renewable energy, and focusing on the six technologies of smart city, energy storage technology and electric energy substitution.
Among them, EDF believes that energy storage, photovoltaic and electric vehicles are the key to shaping the future energy system, and plans to continuously increase the r&d investment in energy storage in the next three years and set up a new PHOTOVOLTAIC R&D center.
The second is to formulate a clear r&d strategy. About two-thirds of the r&d spending is on supporting the development of each business segment and its subsidiaries, and about one-third is on the research and development of forward-looking and basic technologies.
3. the establishment of a diversified R & D system, the establishment of 10 transnational internal R & D centers, 15 joint research LABS, a number of external academic institutions, industrial partners and other partners to create a "big innovation center", promote collaborative innovation at the same time, to create a reliable partnership.
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