This start-up offers a mobile application that provides electronic tickets for passengers on urban and suburban public transport networks. Passengers can find out details of bus timetables in real time and do their own route planning. In July 2019, EDF Pulse Croissance joined forces with Banque des Territoires in a round of fundraising for MyBus(1). Facilitating multi-modal travel is a way of developing sustainable cities and achieving energy transition.
Launched in late 2019, Exaion is the result of an intrapreneurial project co-incubated by EDF Pulse Croissance and EDF’s Transformation and Operational Efficiency Department. Exam provides a 100% French, low-carbon blockchain that preserves the sovereignty of shared data. Exaion offers three services to its customers: distributed cloud computing, backed by the EDF group’s supercomputers; a Blockchain As A Service solution; and third-party data center hosting in secure containers.
EDF Pulse Croissance organises requests for proposals designed to promote startups,VSBs, and SMEs that are already established or maturing, working in innovative technologies, products, tools, and sets of solutions, and likely to contribute to the development of a new business line or sales offer. Selected in liaison with the Group’s business lines and third-party experts, the winners receive support from the Group and its partners to develop the innovative solution in question.
Since it was first set up, EDF Pulse Croissance has launched four requests for proposals. In 2017, a request for proposals concerning international nuclear decommissioning put together with the Deconstruction and Waste Project Department (DP2D) identified a number of promising solutions, including Cyclife Digital Solutions, now a subsidiary of EDF group. In 2018, two requests for proposals were organised with EDF’s Domestic Customer Marketing Department in the field of support for elderly domestic customers (the silver economy) and home services. The winner of this request for projects, start-up Zenpark, received investment from EDF Pulse Croissance in late 2018. In 2019, EDF Pulse Croissance launched a further request for proposals, this time in the realm of e-health, in partnership with AG2R La Mondiale, to identify innovative solutions in support of prevention, screening, and assistance with chronic diseases in the various living environments of the patients. In December 2019, ExactCure and Pheal, two innovative startups working in e-health applications for chronic diseases, were selected as winning proposals.
Other subsidiaries within the EDF group complete the range of energy services thatEDF offers. These focus on specific areas, targeting different categories of customers (residentials, professionals, businesses and local authorities) and cover a wide range of activities including research, construction, equipment maintenance, investment financing and assistance with obtaining permits and subsidies.
To help customers manage their energy and fluid consumption, the EDF group provides facility monitoring and management solutions. Its subsidiaries Netseenergy and Edelia are active in this strategic area.
A wholly-owned subsidiary of the EDF group specialising in energy intelligence for buildings and industrial processes, Netseenergy supports companies and local authorities in energy transition by providing technological and human resources throughout the energy management value chain in a variety of ways:
Netseenergy processes almost 9 million items of data daily for a total of 20,000 sites, using bespoke solutions tailored to the needs of its customers: energy performance control, innovative energy audits, and more. A specialist in the IoT, collecting data from 60,000 connected objects every day, Netseenergy provides energy management for total space of over 120 million square metres.
Edelia is a wholly-owned subsidiary of EDF that designs and implements solutions for individuals and businesses to monitor and control their energy consumption. Its online platform provides a range of innovative digital services to 12 million EDF group customers. Edelia also offers modular tools based on the IoT (Internet of Things) that can be adapted to users’ own ecosystems, thus getting the most out of connected objects in smart homes and enhancing digital customer tools.
A wholly-owned subsidiary of EDF set up in 2016, Sowee is the only energy market player to combine energy sales with a Connected Station, allowing the Group’s offer for domestic customers to be expanded. The Connected Station provides both comfort and energy savings by remotely controlling domestic gas and electric heating, and simulating energy budgets on the basis of temperatures and day-to-day use.Daily routines are facilitated by the integration of Amazon Alexa in the Connected Station’s speaker base and the display of practical information such as indoor air quality, weather, journey times, and so on.
For its business and local authorities customers, the Group continues to expand its range of offers related to remote monitoring and analysis of consumption through to managing energy use.
The EDF group launched the Electric Mobility Plan in October 2018, with the goal of becoming the leading electricity company in electric mobility by 2022 on its four largest European markets: France, the UK, Italy, and Belgium. This energy transition plan confirms its ambitions in CO2-free electricity production and the development of new electric applications.
The EDF group’s Electric Mobility Plan is accelerating, with specific goals for its four major European markets:
Izivia, a benchmark player in France, is one of the network’s leading operators, with over 8,000 private and public charging points in operation in 2019. To facilitate electric car travel throughout Europe, Izivia makes 100,000 charging terminals available on an interoperable basis to holders of its Izivia Pass. In September 2019, Izivia also launched a new application to support roaming charging for its customers, with geolocation of charging points, simplified payment, use tracking, and so on.Meanwhile, the European Commission has expressed renewed confidence in the firm, providing financial support for the rollout of 300 fast charging terminals, in addition to the 217 existing Corri-Door terminals operated by Izivia(2). Ranging from 50 kW to100kW, these terminals will be located in some 60 2-8 place charging stations to provide additional capacity. Commercial success already offers proof of the Group’s commitment to electric mobility. Izivia and Demeter won a Request for Proposals From Lyon Métropole for the creation of a network of public charging points.Deployment of 631 charging points across the Grand Lyon city district commenced in 2019. This partnership between Izivia and an investment fund is one of the most ambitious projects to roll out charging points across an entire area in France to date.In October 2019, Izivia launched a trial with Europcar Mobility Group designed to provide an electric vehicle charging solution for Europcar customers in France.
HTMS, a wholly-owned subsidiary of EDF, has acquired three companies working in electrical engineering, brought together under the EDF ELECTROTECHNICS brand.HTMS has thus become a unique player in the field of electrical engineering, covering all requirements and all the components of medium voltage (HTA), high voltage(HTB), and low voltage (BT) solutions.
(1) See the MyBus press release: “EDF and Banque des territoires invest in MyBus, the rising star in smart mobility”.
(2) On 7 February 2020, IZIVIA made 189 of the 217 terminals in the Corri-Door network unavailable following the appearance of 2 technical incidents generating security risks.
