On Thursday 19 November 2015, the British Embassy in Paris hosted a second trilateral workshop with French, German and British delegates from the research, government and business sectors to discuss the importance of energy storage.

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Overview of Frenchenergystoragepolicy
Guillaume Meheut
General Directorate for Energy and Climate Change,
French Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy
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3. 1. Needs of flexibility and energy storage
2. Main national actions supporting energy storage
3. Opportunities for energy storage
4. Conclusion: work programme
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4. Needs of flexibility and energy storage
Today’s situation in France
As of today, a large share of flexibility needs are covered by:
- hydropower(pumped storage stations), which exploits differences in water
levels between two reservoirs, and can respond to rapid variations in demand
net of renewable and must-run generation ;
- electrical waterheaters, that provide distributed storage resources to shift
demand to off-peak hours
Specific case of non-interconnected areas like Corsica and overseas
islands
- High level of RES in eletricity mix and high electricity prices => rollout of storage
systems on wind and solar farms winners of calls for tenders
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5. Needs of flexibility and energy storage
 In 2025-2030, different factors explain a need formore flexibility…
– growth of renewables (development of onshore wind power and PV)
– development of specific electric end-uses (digitalization, automation, electric vehicles,
behavioural patterns etc.)
… more within a weekthan a day:
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 Several other flexibility options in competition (e.g. demande response) with energy
storage to provide required balancing services.
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6. Main national actions supporting energy storage :
R&Dand innovation
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Investments forthe Future Programme :
• ADEME has launched several calls for interest since 2009. A dozen projects of innovative technology
demonstrators have been supported in various fields:
 Batteries (Li-ion)
 micro-Pumped Hydro Energy Storage
 Flywheels
 Hydrogen
• Three new projects have been selected in 2015:
 A Power-to-Gas project, Jupiter 1000, located in Fos-sur-Mer, launch in 2018. Budget: 30,8M€.
 A thermal energy storage developing a new technology
 A supercapacitor technology
• A new call for interest « Energy storage » was launched during summer 2015, open until April 2017
Other actions:
• Many R&D projects supported by the National Research Agency for disruptive technologies.
• The InterMinistry Fund supports collaborative R&D projects

7. Main national actions supporting energy storage:
industrialisation and rollout
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 Second call fortenders forPV + battery systems in French non interconnected areas :
• total capacity of 50MW with 25MW dedicated to solar systems on buildings and 25MW to
ground-mounted solar systems.
• power of the systems is between 100kW and 12MW.
• winning projects will be revealed during Spring 2016.
 A plan on energy storage among the 34 plans of the New Industrial France:
• Two main fields are part of the plan: batteries and hydrogen
• The goal is to create two plants in France by 2017. Between 8000 to 25 000 jobs are
excepted in 2030 in the battery industry
• Another action plan regarding Smart Grids will also help in developing storage technologies

8. Opportunities forenergy storage
New strategic tools and key measures provided by Energy Transition
for Green Growth act (LTECV)
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National multi-year
energy programme
(article 176)
Energy storage
National Energy
Research Strategy
(article 183)
Renewable energy storage
by hydrogen plan
(article 121)
Specific multi-year energy
programme for each non
interconnected area
(article 203)
Possibility of decrease the tariff for
using the public electricity grid
(TURPE), for power generation
facilities using energy storage
(article 157)
Capacity remuneration mechanism
(CRM) launched in 2017
Ordinance to facilitate an
experimental array of smart grids
and storage system
(article 200)

9. New Industrial France
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Hydrogen
RoadMap
Battery
RoadMap
Smart Grids
action plan
New Industrial
France
- Mobility roadmap
- Power-to-gas
- Technical, economic and financial investment
analysis of smart grids, assessment of their
added value and jobs potential
- Deploying smart grids on a large scale : ERDF
and RTE will start deploying smart grids on a
large scale in 2017
Towards a European
battery industry

10. Conclusion: workprogramme
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› New technologies : demonstrators and experiments will be useful to assess
the various storage options and their profitability.
› Competitiveness of technologies: support implementation in French islands
in the short-run and analyse feedback especially about the cost learning
curve.
› Regulatory framework: work on a new status for storage operators. This
issue is also linked to the increase of self-generation and self-consumption.
› French products export opportunities : demonstrate the efficiency of
French storage solutions and export them in countries with higher short-
term needs.

11. Thank you
for your attention!
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12. Annex - Main national actions supporting energy storage
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Investment for the future programme / ADEME calls for projects.
More projects including storage are currently being tested in smart grid demonstrators :
• Venteea (Champagne Ardenne region) : Wind farms in rural areas and batteries to test the RES
integration in the distribution network.
• Smart ZAE (Toulouse) : Reduce the energy consumption of a business park by storing (100KWh
flywheels/100kWh Li-ion batteries) energy generated on-site.
• IPERD(L’Isle Jourdain): Optimised management of Li-ion batteries (100kW/200kWh) connected to
low-voltage grid and linked to a 100kWc PV plant.
• Nice Grid (Nice): Smart solar district demonstrator involving 1,500 residential, professional and
community costumers linked to distributed storage systems.
• Millener(island grids, Corsica, Guadeloupe, Reunion): Interfacing individual storage solutions with the
grid.
• GRHYD(Dunkerque): Power-to-gas system (hydrogen) to inject in the gas network
• MYRTE (Corsica): Hydrogen produced from PV plants.

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