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Trilateral Energy Storage WorkshopBritish embassy

November, 19th 2015

Overview of French energy storage policy

Guillaume MeheutGeneral Directorate for Energy and Climate Change,

French Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy

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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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Needs of flexibility and energy storageToday’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 water heaters, 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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Needs of flexibility and energy storage In 2025-2030, different factors explain a need for more 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 week than a day:

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Weekly variation of residual consumption

at horizon 2030

Daily variation of residual consumption

at horizon 2030

Several other flexibility options in competition (e.g. demande response) with energy storage to provide required balancing services.

carry on R&D projects

Main national actions supporting energy storage :R&D and innovation

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Investments for the 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

Main national actions supporting energy storage:industrialisation and rollout

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Second call for tenders for PV + 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

Opportunities for energy storageNew 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 EnergyResearch 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)

New Industrial France

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HydrogenRoadMap

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

Conclusion: work programme

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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.

Thank youfor your attention!

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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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