In France, several regions are considering a moratorium on new wind and solar power projects due to grid saturation and local opposition. For instance, according to the report from the electricity grid operator RTE, France have left 2 TWh of renewable electricity in the first half of 2025. By extrapolating this trend, we can estimate that around 4 TWh of renewable production will go unused in 2025.
In a context where nearly 4 TWh of renewable electricity is wasted each year due to grid constraints and low flexibility, your mission is to design a solution that eliminates this loss without adding any new renewable generation during the moratorium.
Your proposal must show:
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How to recover, store, or shift these 4 TWh so that 100% of existing renewable output is used.
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Provide a clear timeline indicating when and how these measures will break the deadlock and allow new renewable projects to restart.
You are free to choose an angle from which to explore technical, economic, social, or territorial solutions that:
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Optimize existing resources (e.g. storage, smart grids, surplus recovery),
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Overcome obstacles (e.g. mediation, innovative governance models),
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Prepare for the post-moratorium period (e.g. participatory planning, hybrid technologies).
In short, your challenge is to propose a realistic and measurable solution tailored to a specific territory (to be chosen).
Deliverables:
Report: Documenting and describing the proposed solution.
Video pitch: 3 min promoting pitch of the proposed solution answering the questions “what is your solution and its benefits?” and “why should we support it?”
The deadline for submit the deliverables is: March 13th, 2025, 23:59 France time.