UK Innovation Awards

Congratulations to the winners of our Innovation Awards, which celebrate amazing innovations and share them across the company.

The winners, announced following an impressive pitch and special lunch
celebration at Nova North on 8 October, are:

Contributing to operational efficiency

Winner: Cloud carbon footprint

EDF’s use of cloud computing services like AWS is growing rapidly and comes with a carbon impact. This innovation found a way to carefully optimising our cloud resources, reducing carbon and cost.

Runners up: 

  • Bill Explainer – ChatGPT to explain your EDF bill
  • Project Athena – a new customer relationship management tool for business customers

Expanding flexibility to meet the needs of the electricity system

Winner: Flexing your home battery, it's that easy

A collaboration between Retail, WMS and Dreev to use residential customers’ batteries to provide flexibility services, helping the grid and earning money for customers.

Runners up: 

  • Pod Drive: a bundled offer combining a Pod charger, smart charging and free miles
  • Tesco’s batteries: a service to optimise Tesco’s small but growing fleet of batteries

Helping our customers save money and carbon

Winner: Smart charging with EDF

A simple smart charging service offered as a bolt-on to any tariff. It saves money for the EV owner and opens the door to more flexibility services.

Runners up: 

  • ECO Innovation: an innovative heat pump for low-income customers
  • Braze Transformation: a totally brand new way to email our customers

Producing more low-carbon electricity with nuclear and renewables

Winner: Smarter Predictions, Safer Power

A novel way to predict the degradation of graphite in out nuclear reactors with greater certainty. This makes it easier to demonstrate the safety case and extend the life of our reactors.

Runners up: 

  • Slim Plate Intermediate Frame: a clever way to fit electrical cabinets in Hinkley Point C
  • Nuclear-enabled hydrogen: a blueprint to produce hydrogen using heat from nuclear power

Prizes

The winners received £500 for each category and will now enter the prestigious EDF Group Pulse Awards, which provides the opportunity for further recognition for outstanding contributions.

If you’re interested in next year’s awards, email RDOperations@edfenergy.com.