Energies du futur

Energies du futur

Major challenges to take up in the fields of New Technologies for Energy

The “Energies du Futur” Carnot institute gathers Grenoble actors in the area of new technologies of energy. It aims at increasing both in quality and quantity the partnership relations between the best French laboratories and the companies involved in the energy sector in order to better answer the challenges of the new sustainable energy policies and greenhouse gases reduction.

Presentation

The objectives of the Carnot institute are to answer markets and rising social expectations, to anticipate breaks in technological, to have appropriate collaborative models and to offer innovating and industrial new energies for buildings, transportation and nomadic application. This implies to control multidisciplinary approaches of complex technologie (microelectronics, nanomaterials, energy).

Six axes of scientific and technological competences

Materials and proceeding for energy
Components for solar energy
Components for hydrogene
Energy management, production, storage
Micro energy sources
Modeling, simulation, design, optimization

Laboratories

4 partner institutions are involved in researches for sustainable energies in Grenoble, covering various fields of excellence such as: advanced materials, electrical engineering, mechanics, energy systems, solar energy, electrochemistry...
Their federation into a central set of themes enables to accelerate the innovation process and to transfer towards industrial sectors.

INP Grenoble • UJF Grenoble • CNRS Alpes

Institute Louis Néel / Consortium of research for the emergence of advanced technologies - CRETA
Laboratory of Grenoble Electrical Engineering - G2ELAB
Laboratory of Geophysical and Industrial Fluid Flows / Turbomachinery and Cavitation Test Laboratory - LEGI
Laboratory of electrochemistry and physicochemistry of materials and the interfaces - LEPMI
Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Science and Graphic Arts
Laboratory of materials and of physical engineering
Laboratory for Subatomic Physics and Cosmology
Laboratory of Sciences and Engineering of Materials and Processes - SIMAP

CEA Grenoble • LITEN

Laboratory of Solar energy technologies / French Institute of Solar Energy: Solar components, Solar photovoltaic and therminal systems, Solar buildings
Laboratory of Nanomaterials Technologies: Miniature energy sources (fuel cells and batteries), Organic electronics devices, Nanopowders and nanotracers

A favourable research Industrial partnerships environment

The « Energies du futur » Carnot institute can rely on a diversified and high quality scientific and technological environment: 60 000 students including 3500 PhDs, 4000 researchers and teachers-researchers, innovation clusters like Minatec or French "pôle de compétitivité" clusters like Tenerrdis and Minalogic, R&D centers from large industrial groups like Air Liquide, Alstom Power Hydro, Schneider, ST Microelectronics..., structures gathering industrial companies and laboratories such as GIE IDEA (Schneider, EDF, INPG)…
Many projects from the laboratories of the “Energies du Futur” Carnot institute were labellised and financed by Tenerrdis cluster, which develops 5 action plans: network management, hydraulics, hydrogen and fuel cells, solar and buildings, biomass.
The “Energies du Futur” Carnot institute has three major assets:
- its implication in scientific and technical university trainings (600 qualified engineers, 210 masters, 280 PhDs, 135 HDR, 150 teachers-researchers),
- its regional (research clusters), national and international partnerships,
- its industrial partnerships.

Industrial partnerships

The energy sector includes several spheres of activities:

materials for energy
sources and components of energy transformation (electromechanical, electrochemical...)
vectors of energy transportation
storage
components allowing to ensure quality and flexibility (power electronics...) of the electricity vector
uses in the sectors of housing, transportation, industry and nomadic applications

The “Energies du Futur” Carnot institute is working with energy industries (primary, secondary and final energies) and material manufacturing industries (generators, engines, sensors, actuators...).

Close to forty large national and international industrial groups and over thirty SMEs are partners of the research laboratories of this institute in the following areas:

Electrical equipment : EDF, Schneider, Alstom, Areva, MGE UPS Systems, Saft, Nokia, BP Solar, Total Energy…
Components : Siemens, ST Microelectronics, Alliance, Thales, Matech, Soitec, Microspire, Clipsol, Ciat…
Processes : Arcelor, Atofina, Wedeco, L’Oreal, Rhodia, Arjowiggins, Total, Wieland, Bic, Concept Soudure, Metalor, Acerde, Emix, Roctool, Allimand, VAI CECLIM, Alfa-Laval, Paxitech, Sofileta…
Materials : Imphy, Nexans, Alcatel espace, Air Liquide, Erachem, Treibacher, Framatome, Tembec, Saint Gobain, Umicore, Novasic, Photowatt, Rubis SA, Bimetal, Novance, Batscap, Ascometal, Cyberstar, ERAS Labo, Eramet, HEF…
Motorization : Snecma, Turbomeca, Skoda, PSA, Renault…
Modeling : Cedrat, Inopro…

Principal equipments

The research laboratories have numerous leading measurement equipments making it possible to model, work out and characterize materials and systems. They develop modeling, simulation, design and optimization techniques.
Many technological platforms support R&D collaborations:
CREMHyG (Hydraulic), CRETA (materials), INES (solar and buildings), electrochemical materials for energy, nanomaterials, PREDIS (networks), RESTAURE (photovoltaics)...

Competences

Core business