Green Energy and Sustainable Materials in Essonne Key facts, innovation and incubation practices 1

Context Essonne is a department located in South of Paris. 1, 2 M Habitants, 1,804 km 2 Urban and outer urban in the North Agricultural in the South EVRY ETAMPES ORSAY PARIS 2

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) 3

Green energy in Essonne Creation in 2012 of an inventory and information tool regarding Essonne’s existing installations in green energy New projects promotion  4

Green energy in Essonne Several installations using various local resources: 2 biogas plants (+ 1 project), including one from household waste Windmills Biomass burning Geothermy 5

Innovations & incubation practices in green energy field Creation of an innovation platform for waste valorisation technologies –Joint projectx – 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) 6

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 7

Sustainable materials General Council of Essonne created 5 years ago a « materiautheque », a sustainable materials library targetting professionals, students and the mainstream public. 8

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 9

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 S W OT 10