By then, subject to satisfactory conclusions from a technical, economic and environmental perspective, and once discussions have been held with the Government and local communities, EDF will embark on the industrialisation stage, aiming to start producing the fuel in 2022... Ecocombust is the result of work started in 2015 by EDF teams to study the development of a new kind of biomass- based fuel, originally designed to power its coal-fired plants.