The Carnot IFPEN Ressources Energétiques (RE) brings together 12 of IFP Energies nouvelles’ laboratories. Awarded the Carnot label in 2020, it maintains strong ties with the socio-economic world, both in France and internationally, and actively contributes to the Carnot Institute network.
The Carnot IFPEN RE helps to tackle the challenges of the energy and environmental transition.
- Develop renewable energies:
- Optimising production in wind and geothermal energy
- Transporting and storing hydrogen
- Exploring the potential of natural hydrogen
- Integrating renewables into the electricity grid via storage and energy management systems (EMS)
- Minimize the climate impact of industrial activities:
- Promoting the capture, utilization and storage of CO2 (CCUS),
- Monitoring industrial sites: detecting gas leaks and tracing them back to their source
- Understanding the role of soils as carbon sinks
- Managing and treating water resources
- Characterising microplastics in the environment
- Seize the opportunities offered by digital technology
Developing new products, services or business models by supporting industry through their digital transformation.
The Carnot IFPEN RE has extensive experience in industrial partnerships and has a portfolio of over 74 active contracts (contract or collaborative research, technical services, active operating licences), 40 per cent of which are international.
The Carnot IFPEN Ressources Energétiques’ R&D themes:
- Wind energy, particularly offshore
- Geothermal energy
- Hydrogen: storage and transport
- Energy storage
- Sustainable uses of the subsurface in the context of the energy transition
- CCUS & negative emissions
- Industrial and environmental monitoring
- Soils and the environmental transition
- Water: resource management and treatment
- Microplastics in the environment
- Digital transformation
Did you know?
At national, European and international levels, the Carnot IFPEN RE is involved in numerous publicly funded collaborative projects, placing it at the heart of a dense network of research partnerships
The Carnot network is a multidisciplinary R&D network. It is made up of 39 french public research structures, representing 20% of the public research workforce and 55% of companies’ R&D contracts.