EDF Energies Nouvelles develops biomass projects involving agricultural waste and by-products from the farming industry.
In 2007, the group entered the biofuels market.

BIOMASS: Expansion in a niche

EDF Energies Nouvelles has developed a biomass project in Spain involving the use of dried olive pulp as fuel. A plant has been built in Lucena in Andalusia. Each year, the facility is able to process 180,000 tons of olive pulp. It has an installed capacity of 26 MW. Two other biomass projects are under development, also in Andalusia The first 10 MW project in Almeria processes the plant waste produced by intensive greenhouse agriculture. The second 15 MW plant close to Seville handles energy crops. In France, EDF Energies Nouvelles is preparing submissions to a biomass call for tenders launched in 2006 concerning a total of 300 MW in capacity.