EDF Renewable Energy Expands into Distributed Electricity, Storage, Will Serve C&I Customers
March 16,2017
EDF Renewable Energy announced the creation of a new business unit, Distributed Electricity and Storage (DES), to focus on distributed solar and storage projects up to 30 megawatts (MW).
The DES group will pursue emerging distributed-energy opportunities to provide unique products and services to commercial, industrial (C&I) and utility customers in the United States.
Early last year, EDF RE acquired groSolar, a developer and EPC provider of commercial, industrial, and municipal solar projects, as a growth platform for distributed energy, and more recently EDF RE expanded its DES team by hiring two solar/storage industry veterans, Tom Leyden and Felix Aguayo.
Leyden is the former CEO of Solar Grid Storage and Aguayo is the former Managing Director of SunEdison
In partnership with EDF affiliates in North America, EDF RE offers a complete suite of services, including energy supply, hedging, and risk management, along with options for demand response, load management, and on- and off-site renewable generation.