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Catherine Bauby
EDF Group Strategy Director
Since more than 20 years, Catherine has held many
management positions in the EDF Group, including
transformation director for the finance direction.
Catherine is also board member of Enedis and UFE.
EDF European net zero scenario for
2050. Balancing decarbonization,
sovereignty and competitiveness
Being net zero by 2050 in Europe is a given for EDF, which has
published this spring 2024, its recommended technico-economically
optimized energy transition scenario. Europe is starting from a final
energy consumption of ~60% fossil fuels, mostly imported, and
20%+ electricity, with a still carbonized electricity mix (coal and gas
power plants). The EDF scenario relies on two main pillars:
“Consume less,
consume better ” by:
Central role of
electricity
• changing behaviors
(10%)
• 60% final energy
demand coverage (from
20%+ today)
• electrifying energy uses
(60%)
• being energy efficient
(30%)
-40% final energy
demand vs 2021
• a fully decarbonized
electricity mix made
of renewables (77%),
nuclear (16%), and
decarbonized thermal
100% decarbonized electricity
to cover 60% of the energy
demand
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With this share of intermittent and distributed electricity
generation, developing grids and enabling enough flexibility at
various time scales (from intraday to seasonal) are critical.
Governments have a key role to enable any optimized net zero
scenario. It includes :
• Aligning policies on what is required : heat pump and EV fast
development for instance.
• Also supporting large assets investments in renewables, nuclear,
grids and storage notably.
• Setting CO2 meaningful price signals, and reinvesting collected
climate taxes to support vulnerable consumers and industries
competitiveness.
To discover more about
EDF net zero scenario
WEMO 2024
EDF European net zero scenario:
a pivotal step towards energy
sovereignty and net zero
Emissions in Europe (1/2)
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