Since August 1, Jérôme Quenu has joined EDF Innovation Lab in Palo Alto as its new Director. Learn more about his background and the opportunities ahead for the Lab and its partners.
"I am delighted to take on this role following the remarkable work accomplished by my predecessor. Customer satisfaction was his top priority, and it remains mine. Julien Pestourie built a high-performing, committed, and well-recognized team. I would like to sincerely thank him for the quality of his work and for the outstanding team whose leadership he has entrusted to me."
At a time of accelerating technological innovation and profound transformation across the energy sector, the role of EDF Innovation Lab in Palo Alto is becoming more important than ever. Rapid advances in artificial intelligence, low-carbon technologies, and flexibility solutions are reshaping business models and transforming the way energy is produced, delivered, and consumed.
Every part of the EDF Group is affected, from generation and grid operations to customer solutions. In this context, the Lab serves as a technology scout, a partnership accelerator, and a bridge between North America's innovation ecosystem and EDF's businesses worldwide.
"Together with the entire Lab team, we have a unique opportunity to help shape the future of energy. From SMRs, fusion, Generation IV reactors, electricity and thermal storage, and geothermal energy, to grid operations, flexibility solutions, and customer offerings, innovation is advancing at an unprecedented pace. Massive investments continue to flow into energy technologies, while artificial intelligence is both creating new energy demand and providing powerful tools to address it.
By combining EDF's deep expertise in generation, power systems, and energy services with the most promising innovations emerging from the market, we help our clients and partners identify opportunities, assess technologies, and develop practical solutions. Whether the answer requires cutting-edge innovation or a simple and cost-effective approach, our mission is to deliver value and impact, take advantage of it and reach out to us."
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Jérôme Quenu joined EDF through a final-year internship focused on short-term optimization of generation assets within EDF R&D, where he spent six years.
He then spent eight years within EDF's Customers, Services and Territories Division, working in risk management, commercial offer sourcing, and executive support functions.
For the past six years, he served as Head of Electricity Procurement for EDF's Island Energy Systems (SEI) Division before taking over the leadership of EDF Innovation Lab in Palo Alto.