Innovation Purpose

Our purpose is to accelerate new impactful businesses and promote fast adoption of innovative solutions to lead the energy transition

Research and Innovation are pivotal in achieving the energy transition, an essential process for creating a greener, more sustainable and inclusive future. 

Fully aware of this importance, we have been strengthening our focus on the search for new solutions with the potential to shape the energy sector, placing innovation at the heart of its strategy.

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Discover our innovative projects that are creating a cleaner, greener tomorrow.

One global research and innovation team

Driving research and innovation on a global scale, we foster a collaborative spirit across a global network of more than 100 talented individuals. Spread across four key innovation hubs - Iberia, North America, South America and Asia-Pacific - this team leverages diverse perspectives to bring groundbreaking ideas to life. 

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We are delivering value with speed, scale, and focus across our different innovation channels.

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Research & Development

EDP Group´s Research and Development Centre, working every day to invent the future of energy and contribute to a carbon-free society

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Innovation Ecosystem

Foster collaboration and co-creation through partnership development with the ecosystem.

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EDP Ventures

Accelerate innovation through investment in innovative companies to help lead the energy transition.

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Our priorities

We are tackling innovation on seven key domains, each brimming with exciting concepts, projects, and solutions. These come to life through three dedicated innovation channels, with an extra 'open box' domain that welcomes fresh ideas from all corners of the company, no matter the field.

Grid of the Future

Leverage the existing infrastructure with innovative solutions while looking for new growth adjacent opportunities

Distributed energy resources

Accelerate deployment, aggregation and intelligence of DER.

Green hydrogen

Unlock green hydrogen adopting optimizing its value chain

Storage & flexibility

Leverage utility storage competitive positioning and explore decentralized VPP flexibility

Future mobility journey

Accelerate mobility electrification and provide value-added mobility services

Energy usage decarbonization

Electrify heat and improve carbon efficiency in industry

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RES as the main source of energy

Accelerate RES deployment while increasing the value of existing assets

RES as the main source of energy

Accelerate RES deployment while increasing the value of existing assets

Grid of the Future

Leverage the existing infrastructure with innovative solutions while looking for new growth adjacent opportunities

Distributed energy resources

Accelerate deployment, aggregation and intelligence of DER.

Green hydrogen

Unlock green hydrogen adopting optimizing its value chain

Storage & flexibility

Leverage utility storage competitive positioning and explore decentralized VPP flexibility

Future mobility journey

Accelerate mobility electrification and provide value-added mobility services

Energy usage decarbonization

Electrify heat and improve carbon efficiency in industry

Open box domain

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Our digitalization process is taking over the company's entire landscape, changing not only the way we operate in the energy sector but also the way we interact with our employees, customers and communities.
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EDP is pushing the boundaries of energy innovation, from renewable technologies to smart energy systems. Connect with us on Linkedin to explore how we're leading the global energy transition.