Innovation at EDF Energy

Innovation and energy

We are applying new technologies and ways of working to help build a brighter energy future for the UK. Our programmes focus on coupling advances in science and engineering with new digital innovations.

EDF Pulse Innovation Challenge

The Pulse Innovation Challenge gives start-ups a gateway into the energy industry.

Find out about our 2020 challenge

Blue Lab

Blue Lab is EDF's innovation accelerator. We take great ideas and shape them to become the customer technologies and services of the future.

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Research and Development UK

R&D UK is a centre of technical excellence whose main purpose is helping to build a brighter energy future for the UK.

Learn about our projects

Latest news

Innovation blog

Exciting new project by Cranfield University and EDF

A drone research project run by EDF scientists, which could save the company millions in lost generation, has won Gover

Exciting new approach to measuring energy performance

Space heating represents the majority (60%) of the total domestic energy consumption in the UK, most of which is suppli

EDF’s Waste & Decommissioning Programme

EDF’s Waste & Decommissioning R&D programme aims to further our understanding of the challenges and to deliver tools and technologies that add value to the UK’s Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor (AGR) decommissioning programme.

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