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🚨The call for EVOLEN' UP solutions is now closed !🚨
Your application is currently being carefully reviewed. Start-up, if your solution is selected by our partners, you will be invited to pitch on April 3 or 4, 2024. The winning start-ups will then be
announced on April 24, 2024.
The main mission of EVOLEN' UP is to investigate and support new solutions to energy challenges and
to make available to as many people as possible, in complete safety, energy that is cheap, reliable,and clean, a vector of progress.The accelerator is based on three main axes which are to improve operational efficiency, to reduce
the environmental impact and to develop low-carbon energy solutions with a special focus whatever
the call:o Carbon capture
o Energy storage and efficiency
o Hydrogen
For this new session, we invite you to contribute to two themes that are crucial for our industrial sector💡2 THEMES💡
The role of water in the energy transition
Wind offshore
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To make yourself known by our partners who are committed to an open innovation approach in order to renew the industrial chain of the energy sector.
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Theme n°1:
The role of water in the energy transition
While water and energy are essential to each other, climate change is making the relationship between the energy and water sectors more intense and more strategic.
Water transition is deeply linked with energy transition. Renewable water resources in France fell by an annual average of 14% between 1990-2001 and 2002-2018 (source: Ministry of Sustainable Development). The renewable water brought to a territory by the natural water cycle has two origins: the freshwater brought by rivers entering that territory, and the fraction of precipitation that does not return to the atmosphere through evaporation, and then joins surface and ground water.
Energy production can sometimes require or even produce significant quantities of water: fossil, nuclear, organic (biofuels, biomass), geothermal and, more generally, renewable energies. Energy production depends on water, and can be weakened by climate change, which makes water scarcer or more abundant depending on the region. In this context, the water cycle is of prime importance. The energy transition therefore requires technologies and processes that enable to monitor, use and reuse this "water" resource more sustainably, sparingly, and respectfully of the environment and biodiversity.The energy transition implies a joint approach and synergies between water and energy: sustainable management of water resources, reduction of environmental impacts and development of new, more water-friendly technologies.
The theme of this new call for solution targets any technology that can be applied to water. Without being exhaustive, this call for solution is therefore open to all start-ups likely to provide innovative
solutions about:
• Monitoring, analysis of pollutant
• Water effluent treatment: process, innovative material
• Water optimisation - Recycling – Re-use – Recovery and valorisation of raw material(ie industrial solvent recovery ammonia)
• Water quality, pollution managementTheme n°2:
Wind offshore
In France, the energy mix scenarios imply significant development of offshore wind energy, ranging from 22 to 70 GW by 2050. The European Commission plans to increase offshore wind power capacity in EU waters to 300 GW by 2050.
A consultation on the state of development in France was carried out some ten years ago with all
stakeholders to identify offshore wind farm siting areas, resulting in a series of tenders and developments currently underway or planned.
France is at the forefront of the development of floating wind farms, whose technology is still experimental and whose cost is 2 times higher than that of land-based wind farms.
However, offshore wind power is constantly evolving, and new technologies in this field aim to improve the efficiency, profitability, and durability of these installations, as well as their adaptability to a wide range of environmental conditions and finally recyclability. On the other hand, this source of energy is intermittent: for example, in some conventional operation, a wind turbine operates at around 25% of its maximum power. Ongoing research and innovation in this sector play a key role in maximizing the potential of offshore wind energy and solving the challenges specific to this field. The entire offshore wind energy chain also includes the turbine manufacturing process and the development of port infrastructures.
The theme of this new call for solution targets any technology that can be applied to wind energy in
offshore. Without being exhaustive, this call for solution is therefore open to all start-ups likely to
provide innovative solutions about:
• Offshore
• Wind turbine or wind propulsion
• Conception: global design or specific part
• Durability improvements: cables protection, erosion from sea currents
• Predictive maintenance, repair
• Materials Recycling – Re-use
• Compatibility with environment
• Biodiversity integration. Impact study on biodiversity
• Intermittency management & hybrid fleet managementEVOLEN' UP : 3 guiding principles
TO IMPROVE OUR OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY
• New capacity for conception and manufacturing (i.e. additives manufacturing), new processes
• Robotization and automation
• Digital transformation (Big data, IA, IIoT, Virtual Reality, ...)
• Safety, cyber-security
• Project management, construction, installation, operation
• Methodology and simplification of operations (Lean)
• Logistic, transport, supply chain
TO REDUCE THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF OUR ACTIVITIES
• Better management of the resources used (raw materials, energy, re-use, recycling, LCA)
• To measure and minimise emissions and discharges of all types
• Capture of CO2
• Storage, valorisation and neutraliser of CO2 (CCUS)
• To add value to unavoidable energy
• To develop the environmental onitoring of digital transformation
• To reduce energy consumption (sobriety)
TO DEVELOP LOW-CARBON ENERGY SOLUTIONS
• Hydrogen
• Green Gas
• Synthetic fuels, biofuels, green chemistry
• Marine Renewable Energies
• Offshore Wind
• Geothermal energy & coproducts from the exploitation of sub-surface (lithium…)
• Synergy of multi-energies
• Technologies of production, storage, transport and distribution of energy in a systemic approach / LCA
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