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Smart Grids and energy efficiency on the demand side – International benchmark of start-ups and conclusions on the opportunities for the French market

New regulatory, economical and technological changes created the emerging market of the Smart Grid. The Smart Grid market opens the way to a wide range of high value applications and energetic services, some of them being :

• Transport and distribution networks management
• Demand management
• Integration of distributed energy and production.

Those trends allow for new opportunities to create new products and services, such as:

• Smart metering
• Telecom networks and applications (LAN, WAN, HAN…)
• Distance and local buildings energy management
• Applications and infrastructures to integrate electric cars to the network
• Aggregator of demand management, etc.

Table of contents:

1. Regulatory, economical and technological context
2. Main drivers of the Smart Grid market development in France
3. Market segment and start-up screening
4. International benchmark of start-ups (13 business cases) on the demand side
5. Who are we?
6. Sources