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Innovation

Innovation

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

Research and Innovation for a more sustainable and inclusive future

Fully aware of the pivotal importance of this, 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 our strategy.

Discover the projects that are changing tomorrow

Get to know details on innovation projects that are creating a cleaner, greener future.
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 - Asia-Pacific, Iberia, North America and South America - this team leverages diverse perspectives to bring groundbreaking ideas to life.

 

+100 people
Research and innovation
functions
4 innovation hubs
Lisbon, Huston , Singapore
and São Paulo
1€ billion
Innovation investment 
TOTEX 2023-2026
We are delivering value with speed, scale, and focus across our different innovation channels

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 - Asia-Pacific, Iberia, North America and South America - this team leverages diverse perspectives to bring groundbreaking ideas to life.

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Research and development

EDP’s Group Research and Development Center, working to invent the future of energy and contribute to a carbon-free society.
See our R&D projects

Innovation ecosystem

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

Venture investments

Accelerate innovation through investment in innovative companies to help lead the energy transition.
See our investment priorities
How do we structure our priorities at EDP?

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

Open box domain

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

We are invested in innovation

Both internally and externally, we are invested in the development of new solutions and ways of innovating that have a positive impact in the way we live and work.

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Labelec

Created with the ambition of being a center of technical excellence, EDP Labelec is a reference in the areas of engineering, preventive maintenance and innovation.
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Digital at EDP

Our digitalisation 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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Connect with EDP Innovation on LinkedIn

We are pushing the boundaries of energy innovation, from renewable technologies to smart energy systems. On LinkedIn you can connect and get to know how we're leading the global energy transition.
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