Renewables on Hold: How Do We Break the Bottleneck?

Want to learn more about this challenge? We invite you to the Info Session & Kick-off that will take place on Monday 8th December at 18h at the X-Novation Center (Ecole Polytechnique). Please get registered before coming!

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The challenge in a nutshell 

In France, several regions are considering a moratorium on new wind and solar power projects due to grid saturation and local opposition. At the same time 4 TWh of renewables are wasted every year. With no new installations allowed, your challenge is to bring this waste to zero. Your mission is to design a solution that eliminates this loss without adding any new renewable generation during the moratorium. Your proposal must show:

  1. How to recover, store, or shift these 4 TWh so that 100% of existing renewable output is used.

  2. 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:

  1. Optimize existing resources (e.g. storage, smart grids, surplus recovery),

  2. Overcome obstacles (e.g. mediation, innovative governance models),

  3. Prepare for the post-moratorium period (e.g. participatory planning, hybrid technologies).

 

Prices and incentives


Winning prizes includes: 

 
  • 1st place: 3 000€ per group
  • 2nd place: 2 000€ per group
  • 3rd place: 1 000€ per group
 

+ All teams will also be able to submit their project to participate to the EuroTeQaThon and/or join the EuroTeQ Bootcamp.

Eligibility 

This Challenge is open and offered solely to: 

 

Students: Any individual aged eighteen (18) years and/or with full legal capacity, who is currently enrolled as an undergraduate or master student.

 

Groups of 3-4 are expected combining different disciplines. 

 

Want to learn more about this challenge?

 

We invite you to the Info Session & Kick-off that will take place on Monday 8th December at 18h at the Amphi of X-Novation Center (Ecole Polytechnique). Please get registered before coming!

During the project you will be challenged to:

 

Apply specific technical skills and knowledge from your academic background in an operational project.

 

Articulate your skills and knowledge in a multidisciplinary context to develop cross-cutting solutions to a chosen question.

 

Use a scientific and technical approach to propose solutions that are economically viable as well as socially responsible.