Green Energy and Sustainable Materials in Essonne Key facts, innovation and incubation practices

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Context

• Essonne is a department located in South of Paris.• 1, 2 M Habitants, 1,804 km2

• Urban and outer urban in the North • Agricultural in the South

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Essonne’s policy

• Leading role of General Council of Essonne :– Greenhouse Gas Emissions Auditing

• 2 most emitting sectors : transport & housing (heat)– Identifying priority actions – Helping and facilitating initiatives of green energy &

sustainable materials production– Helping and facilitating economic development in the

field of cleantech (creation of NOVA GREEN)

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Green energy in Essonne• Creation in 2012 of an inventory and

information tool regarding Essonne’s existing installations in green energy

• New projects promotion

www.energie.essonne.fr

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Green energy in Essonne Several installations using various local resources:

•2 biogas plants (+ 1 project), including one from household waste

•Windmills

•Biomass burning

•Geothermy

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Innovations & incubation practices in green energy field

• Creation of an innovation platform for waste valorisation technologies– Joint project x – Business model : R&D facilities and space rent for industrial

pilots – Subjects:

• Heat recovery• Biogas valorisation• Other waste valorisation

– Debut : Mars 2013 !

+ recycling(sustainable materials)

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Transition : making green energy with sustainable materials

• Wheat culture Coop in Etampes (South of Essonne)– Valorizing their residues by making a new kind of “agro-

pellet”» Good Lower heating value

– Selling to local public authorities for their utilities with wood-fired heating systems

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Sustainable materials

General Council of Essonne created 5 years ago a « materiautheque », a sustainable materials library targetting professionals, students and the mainstream public.

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Innovations & incubation practices in sustainable materials field

• R&D facility : Platform in Evry for bio-materials test (fatigue, degradability, waterproofness…)

• Several start-ups based on innovative valorization of biomaterial : – Algae

– Whimp & miscanthus

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Conclusion for start ups in green energy & sustainable materials

• High potential markets• Local resources • Local market ?

• Lot of innovation• From local public R&D

• Time to market : difficulties to meet their customers

• Capital intensive market• Long decision making cycles

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