Our activities

Every day, EDF R&D explores, innovates and imagines the technologies that will shape the energy of tomorrow.

Industrial R&D, tackling the major energy challenges.

R&D operates in France, Europe and internationally. It relies on more than 70 modern, high-performance testing facilities, some of which are unique in the world, as well as supercomputers and highly accurate simulation tools.

Together with its scientific, academic and industrial partners, it explores the realm of possibilities for today and tomorrow.

Its teams support customers in their electrification and efforts to reduce their carbon footprint by developing concrete and innovative solutions.

They work to produce ever more low-carbon electricity by building on the excellence of nuclear, hydropower and renewable energy, while ensuring the long-term sustainability of the existing fleet, its adaptation to climate change and the construction of tomorrow’s power plants.

They design the grids of the future to meet the challenges of the energy transition: smart grids, resilient infrastructure and embedded digital solutions.

They develop essential flexibility solutions to ensure the balance of the power system, through energy storage, advanced modelling and intelligent energy management.

Finally, R&D is accelerating the digital transformation by harnessing artificial intelligence, data, scientific computing and cybersecurity in the service of energy.

To achieve these goals, it relies on a unique ecosystem of partners: research institutes, universities, start-ups and industrial companies.

Thanks to the expertise of its people, its exceptional testing facilities and its cutting-edge technologies, EDF R&D is acting today and preparing for the future.

For a high-performing, resilient and increasingly low-carbon energy system.

The professionalism of industrial R&D, committed to working alongside the energy business, acting today and preparing for the future.