Clermont-Auvergne Métropole : Meet two local stakeholders involved in energy transition, Bio-Valo & Institut Pascal
Edited on
03 February 2022In Clermont Auvergne Métropole, lead partner of Urb-En Pact network, public research institutes and companies are engaged in the energy transition process and are innovating daily to achieve carbon neutrality.
During the local event “Clermont Innovation Week” led by Clermont Auvergne Métropole in March/April 2021, Urb-En Pact chose to host its 5th transnational meeting on the topic of science & innovation in the energy area.
Urb-En Pact partner cities discoverd two successful local examples of innovative organizations in the energy transition area :
> Bio-Valo, a company of engineering consultants located in Riom, close to Clermont-Ferrand, that develops activities around biogas production. Bio-Valo team is currently working on two core technologies: the production of biohydrogen by dark fermentation and biological methanation. Both contribute to improving the carbon yield and the energy yield of the biogas production process.
> Pascal Institute of Clermont-Ferrand, managed by Clermont Auvergne University and the CNRS (National Center of Scientific Research), especially in the chemical and biochemical engineering team, on the engineering of solar fuel production. Solar fuels are renewable molecules which can act as energy carriers and can be obtained from direct photo-reactive conversion just from water or CO2 and using the energy of photons coming from sunlight. These processes make it possible to convert and store solar energy into gaseous or liquid chemical fuels, especially available for mobility.
2 videos have been released with Bio-Valo and Pascal Institute teams, and have been broadcasted during our Transnational Meeting :
Submitted by Hélène Mazaleyrat on