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Emerging sustainable technologies

2025 2024 2023 2022

Innovative agri-PV solutions development and derisking

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Demonstrate at least 2 agri-PV business cases (inter-row & elevated) for ENGIE by end 2024, unlocking access to new land surfaces for PV and providing a competitive advantage for ENGIE. 

ELASTOCALORIC SYSTEMS

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From Heat to Cool: Elastocaloric Systems in the Defossilisation Journey. In developed countries, heating and cooling make up about half of the global final energy consumption, surpassing electricity (20%) and transport (30%). They are responsible for over 40% of global...

Mineral Recovery from Brine

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Mineral extraction from brine, i.e. waste water from desalination, would support a more sustainable economy, reducing both drinking water production cost & the environmental impact generated by brine disposal. 

Competitive large-scale PV projects

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Push large scale PV tender success rate to 30 % within 2 years by integrating innovative solutions and technologies for more competitive PV projects with lower LCOE.

Metal fuels

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Metals as recyclable carbon neutral fuels are promising alternatives to fossil fuels.

Natural Hydrogen

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Natural hydrogen is generated by natural geochemical processes inside the Earth’s crust

LIGHT-DRIVEN CHEMISTRY TO SOLAR FUELS PRODUCTION

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Photosynthesis efficiently captures solar energy, but its subsequent conversion into chemical energy in the form of biomass is limited in term of efficiency in the range between 1 to 4%. 

SOLAR SPACE POWER

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Can we use Solar Power in Space to supply energy for Earth’s consumption?

Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC)

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OTEC uses the temperature difference between surface and deep sea water to produce electricity. There is significant potential in coastal areas & tropical climates. 

BIOCONVERSION OF CARBON

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Bioconversion: The Future of Carbon Utilisation. Our way of life relies heavily on carbon: plastics, textiles, medicine, electrodes, etc. If we want to keep our current lifestyles, and still reduce our fossil footprint, we need renewable carbon that will not be a net...

Offshore Molecules Production

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Large offshore renewable energy potential and CO2 availability in the air or in the sea offer an opportunity to synthetize e-fuels.

Mineral Recovery from the Seafloor

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Deep seas contain large mineral resources with high concentrations of metals including cobalt, manganese, copper, nickel, silver, rare earth elements and gold which may be the key to manufacturing the low-carbon technologies needed to generate clean energy.

Fusion power

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Fission is a nuclear technology based on splitting one large atom into two smaller atoms whilst Fusion is the fusing of two light atoms into a larger one. 

LEARNING ORGANISATION OF TOMORROW

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Navigating the Future: A Comprehensive AI Roadmap for industrial knowledge. This roadmap outlines the essential steps for AI adoption, beginning with the creation of modular and multimodal transformers and advancing towards the development of empathic and responsible AI agents.

CIRCUL(AIR)FUELS

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Converting low-carbon electricity to e-fuels in a fully circular manner! 

Large Energy Storage

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How can the Ocean help store energy in the future? We focus on mechanical (compressed air), underwater pumped hydro & floating batteries storage system that integrate with offshore renewables.

PLASMA-BASED CO₂ CONVERSION TECHNOLOGY

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Harnessing Plasma: Innovative CO2 Conversion for a Sustainable Future. Fossil fuels, with their high energy density and transportability, were pivotal in driving the industrial revolution, enhancing global living standards, and in enabling economic diversification and...

Wave Energy

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Wave energy technologies range from the laboratory prototype stage to the pilot stage in real sea conditions without dominant sub-technology. Wave power converts the periodic up-and-down movement of ocean waves into electricity.

Road to 30% efficiency PV cells

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Silicon solar modules represent over 95% of global installed PV capacity with one challenger, Perovskite solar cells

FOSSIL - FREE STEEL

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Steel is at the heart of modern society. Iron is abundant in the earth’s crust, so there is easy access to resources. Steel can be recycled ad infinitum. Even so, we need to extract additional iron to Meet society’s energy transition needs.

ELECTRIC CRACKING

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How to accelerate the electrification in the Chemical Industry? Focus on e-cracking. The cracking of hydrocarbons, particularly through steam cracking, is a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions in the petrochemical industry. This chapter focuses on...

Innovative Large-Scale Desalination

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Key technological breakthroughs are expected to reduce water cost for drinking purpose & energy transition while minimizing the environmental impact.

Ocean-Based Negative Emission Technologies

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Ocean-based Negative Emission Technologies provide Carbon Dioxide Removal by displacing CO2 from the atmosphere into the ocean. 

Marine Floating Solar Power

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Marine floating PVs consist of floating structures supporting PV installations which use solar radiation to produce electricity. 

Osmotic power

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Using the salinity of the oceans to produce sustainable & clean electricity in both natural (e.g. deltas & estuaries) and industrial environments.

RAW MATERIAL PROCESSING VIA MICROWAVES

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How to reduce energy consumption and GHG emissions in heating processes of raw materials? The cement industry contributes about 8 % of global CO2 emissions. By comparison, global GHG emissions from road transportation are 15% and the aviation sector is accountable for...

Wind Turbine Blade Circularity

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Wind Blade Waste is composed of valuable resources that should be recycled to make the supply chain even more sustainable.

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