In France, most retail federations, covering major supermarket chains, specialised stores and independent shops, have committed themselves to reducing electricity consumption in retail outlets. On 18 July 2022, France’s retail sector agreed on an “energy sobriety” or efficiency plan, applicable to large food and specialised retail stores from 15 October 2022. It will subsequently be […]
Over the last 10 years, a number of pilot schemes in Europe have been seeking to maximise feedback on intelligent transport systems (ITS) with the aim of building a harmonised approach to the expansion of autonomous cars in the EU. How far has this come? The European Commission has been going all out in recent […]
Cenaero, a research centre in Wallonia, Belgium, has appointed Axians to complete the installation of a new supercomputer. The aim is to accelerate basic and applied research thanks to high-speed computations. The world of high performance computing (HPC) is based on petaflops, where one petaflops is equal to one quadrillion floating-point operations per second. In […]
Head of innovation strategy at utility EDF, this forty-something AI specialist is working to bridge the gap between business goals and technological solutions. This cooperative role requires a healthy dose of agility from Aude, a former French team-acrobatic gymnastics champion. Exploring innovative services for heavy equipment like construction plant and trucks, or opening up new […]
Nuclear fusion, a technology whose reliability ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) aims to improve, holds the promise of clean, safe and virtually limitless energy. The main challenge is to confine the plasma in the vacuum chamber by detecting and predicting possible instabilities. To do this, physicists use artificial intelligence-driven modelling and simulation techniques to test […]
The wine industry has entered the digital era, with robotics, apps and artificial intelligence coming to the fore. France’s vineyards in the Hérault and Saône-et-Loire departments are cases in point. As the largest agricultural producer in the European Union, France intends to get it right when it comes to digitalising its rural areas. It’s an area […]
Wildlife preservation is increasingly being taken into consideration in the property sector, which is seeking to find more ways to add value to assets. The main environmental issues being addressed in the property sector today revolve around energy and carbon. Initiatives taken by players in the sector to reduce emissions from the built environment are […]
With climate change, the increase in exposure to extreme heat in urban areas is likely to have an impact on people living in large cities, especially the poorest. The topic, already well-documented, is set out very precisely in a report published in the American journal PNAS (Global urban population exposure to extreme heat) in October […]
Already installed on some cruise ships, diesel-electric propulsion is now starting to be seen in trawlers. A ship-owner from Guilvinec in Brittany in north-western France is involved in one such project, assisted by Barillec Marine Lorient, a VINCI Energies subsidiary. Blue Wave, a 22m deep-sea trawler, left its home port of Guilvinec and put out […]
