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PRESENTATION OF EDF GROUP Description of the Group's activities

neighbourhoods, etc), not only in terms of the networks but also the associated data, necessary for regional players and cities aiming to become smart cities. The Open Innovation policy developed by Enedis has become particularly popular in local communities which have organised many energy, technological and environmental initiatives. As a result, these communities will be able to contribute their shared knowledge (start-ups) that Enedis could then use for its own research and innovation, especially in the areas of smart grids and data. Focus on international expansion In the field of smart grids, Enedis has gone from a simple concept to demonstrators, then to industrialisation with a high level of maturity in just a few short years. In addition to the smart meters being deployed, the objective is a large-scale deployment of smart grid solutions on the networks in major geographic regions. Enedis has structured the French industrial sector for smart electricity grids with other French players in this sector through the “Thinksmartgrids” association which now numbers around one hundred members (major industrial players, start-ups, universities, research institutes, etc.). The goal of the French smart grids team is to now become the European leader and one of the global leaders. Based on projects completed in France which showcase French industrial excellence, Enedis promotes French savoir-faire across borders. Island Energy Systems 1.4.4.3 Island Energy Systems (IES) brings together the electricity systems operated by EDF which are not interconnected, or only slightly connected, to the mainland: mainly Corsica, the overseas departments (except Mayotte) and the overseas territories of Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon. EDF’s organisation in each of these regions is therefore based on maintaining an integrated structure, providing both part of the generation and the entire range of functions of supply and demand balance manager, of network manager (HVB, HVA and LV) and of supplier. The additional generation costs in these territories compared with equivalent costs on the mainland, which the legislator considers as a public service expense, are offset by the Contribution to the Public Electricity Service (see section 1.5.2 “Public service in France”). Tariffs for Using the Public Transmission and Distribution Networks (TURPE) apply to users connected to the distribution networks (See also section 1.5.3.2 “French legislation: the French Energy Code”).

The projects already completed have yielded results in areas such as innovation for the network, flexibility and the integration of renewable energies. In 2017, Enedis also proposed technical solutions for individual and collective self-consumption tested under real conditions in multi-family housing and commercial buildings,

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storage, data management and economic models. Industrialising technical solutions

Enedis has continued the industrialisation of cutting-edge solutions in smart grids and is engaged in a roadmap for the implementation of a “foundation network” by 2018. This concerns all the components of the network with digital technologies in the source control stations (PCCNs, or Digital Command and Control Stations, which provide central management of the network's transmission automation and FARs, or Functions for Automation of the Network, which facilitate management of the insertion of electricity from renewable sources), the distribution stations (HVA/LV Smart stations), the sensors on the network and all the information system tools (forecast, management, planning management, Linky network, etc. This roadmap aims to pursue the modernisation of the network, to facilitate the insertion of renewable energies and to assist all the players in the electricity system. Carry out the digital switch-over and the management of the data Enedis is participating in the digital transformation of the electricity system by modernising the networks in order to assist with the energy transition and innovating in order to make use of mass data. For this purpose, a digital programme has been undertaken by Enedis since 2014, based on four vectors: the management of the infrastructure (remote management, predictive management, etc.), dialogue with outside parties, the management of data from electricity meters and sensors and the social and cultural transformation of the Company, which is providing its employees with new tools connected to the Information Systems in order to deliver better services to the customers. Enedis has organised itself to process, exploit and accumulate the collected data and provide it to the various players in the electricity system (suppliers, transmission network operators, local authorities, new entrants) in compliance with the confidentiality and security regulations. Acting for the “cities of the future” or smart cities Self-consumption, self-supply, electric mobility, smart meters, data management and the optimisation in real time of networks - these are the new challenges facing electricity distributors in relation to regions as a whole, and especially cities. This has now become a reality. Enedis is promoting the emergence of DSOs (distribution system operators), facilitators of energy transition for all uses at every level, including local (cities,

IES KEY ELEMENTS IN 2017:

Data at end-2017

of which Corsica

Total 3,425

Headcount (1)

762

Number of customers Network length (in km)

1,153,052

256,563 11,791

36,834

2,062

559 189 369 339 937 257 680

Net installed capacity of the EDF fleet (in MW)

of which hydropower fleet and other renewable energy sources

440

of which thermal fleet (1)

1,622 5,907 1,305 3,947 1,346 2,601 9,854

Output (1) (in GWh)

1,346

of which hydropower output

Purchases of energy from third parties (in GWh) of which renewable energies, including bagasse

of which other energies

TOTAL ENERGY GENERATED BY EDF AND PURCHASED FROM THIRD PARTIES 2,283 Data including EDF Production Électrique Insulaire (PEI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the EDF group, which is in charge of renewing the thermal power plants in (1) Corsica and overseas departments. Thermal installed capacity remained stable between 2016 and 2017.

In view of the difference within these systems between the megawatt-hour

Management (Agence de l’environnement et de la maîtrise de l’énergie or ADEME)

generation costs and the sale price at the equalised tariff, EDF’s sales activities look and local institutions, energy efficiency actions. to implement, alone or in partnership with the Agency for Environment and Energy

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