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A global offer - a sustainable path
The global offer is an innovative response to the new challenge facing electricity producers: to produce zero-emission energy that is safe and competitive. It puts a set of AREVA technologies, products and services into play with the focus of of providing a customized response to the needs posed by this challenge. It relies on a lasting, global partnership approach.
To live and work in a world where electricity is accessible, affordable and without environmental impact - that is what we all want! But this represents a real challenge for electricity suppliers across the world.
That said, AREVA is proposing to cultivate a sustainable partnership with energy companies.
AREVA’s global offer consists of developing a solution alongside its customers which will help them meet their objectives:
- to produce safe and competitive energy.
- to optimize the diversification of resources (nuclear, renewables) for the production of zero-emissions energy.
Combine everything effectively with AREVA solutions
We have arrived at a solution as a result of a detailed study of the expectations of energy companies, their financial objectives and their paths for development. This solution considers the strategies, positions, internal skills, markets and regulatory and national environments (public opinion, political choices, etc) of the energy companies.
The solution provides a customized range of offers:
- in which AREVA can be a stakeholder (through a strategic, financial, industrial etc. partnership).
- which combine a set of products, technologies and services established through AREVA's emissions-free energy solutions: nuclear, wind power, biomass, hydrogen, etc.
ADAGE - a biomass partnership with Duke
AREVA has partnered with the American energy company, Duke, to create ADAGE, a company based in Pennsylvania that is dedicated to the construction of standardized biomass units with a power of around 50 MW. These plants, which are run using forest wood waste, will be operated by Duke, and designed by AREVA, who already have extensive experience in this area with over 100 plants constructed worldwide.
The advantages of AREVA
- A portfolio of emissions-free solutions: nuclear, solar, wind power, biomass, hydrogen.
- Opportunities for open partnerships: joint venture, investment, skills transfer, etc.
- Forty years experience in the nuclear industry: reactor design, plant operating services through to management of the entire fuel cycle.
