ONE OF THE 5 LARGEST RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES IN FRANCE
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Sainte-Croix Dam ONE OF THE 5 LARGEST RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES IN FRANCE • The Hydraulic Operating Group of the Durance and Verdon Valleys runs 30 plants and 17 dams based in the Hautes-Alpes. Alpes de Haute-Provence, Var, Vaucluse and Bouches-du-Rhône departments. • I t produces an average 6.5 billion kWh per year, using clean and renewable energy, equal to the annual residential consumption of a city with over 2.5 million inhabitants. • It accounts for 40% of the electricity produced in the PACA Region. The Serre-Ponçon and Sainte-Croix water reservoirs in particular and the hydroelectrical infrastructures in the Durance and Verdon Valleys help serve the sources of demand for water and renewable energy across the region and foster territorial development.
Sainte-Tulle 1 Power Plant The Durance-Verdon Hydraulic
Operating Group
Drawing upon the winning combination of
water and energy, the Hydraulic Operating
Group (GEH) of the Durance and Verdon Valleys
is aimed at producing renewable energy,
continually combining hydroelectricity and
biodiversity.
The men and women at the GEH work hard
each day to deliver performance and safety
on the production facilities and guarantee
third-party safety for those around the
structures.
In this manner, Durance-Verdon GEH contributes
to mutually-beneficial management and
water resource sharing, in cooperation with
all of the players in the valleys to ensure that the
territory is sustainably developed.
Bruno Conty - Jean-Lionel Dias - Jean-Luc Abrairi
Septlieux.com photos : EDF - Jean-Marie Huron -
EDF PRODUCTION MEDITERRANEE
Leading producer of renewable energies in the PACA
Region, managing shared water resources,
and contributing to the preservation of biodiversity.
EDF Production Méditerranée - GEH Durance Verdon
Bâtiment le Vérance - Chemin du Thor - 04220 Sainte-Tulle
http://hydro-mediterranee.edf.com
Hydroelectricity,
n° 1 Renewable Energy
in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Region
Serre-Ponçon Dam
EDF PRODUCTION MEDITERRANEE
THE DURANCE AND VERDON BASINS
Serving the public interest and driving sustainable development,
the hydroelectrical production infrastructures in Durance and Verdon,
built from the 1950s on, enable the shared water management
policy conducted in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Region.
HYDROELECTRICITY IN
LA DURANCE AND LE VERDO CENTRALES DU GROUPE D'EXPLOITATION HYDRAULIQUE VAR-ROYA (GEH)
La Durance river KEY
The Durance originates in Montgenèvre and thrusts itself 300km farther south
into the Rhône River, near Avignon. Since 1966, the EDF Canal is used to deviate HEAD AUTHORITY DURANCE-VERDON HYDRAULIC OPERATION GROUP PLANTS (GEH)
part of the Durance River’s waters over 250km, from the Serre-Ponçon Dam EDF CANAL
MAINTENANCE TEAMS
to the Berre Pond. PASSAGES, CONDUITS
HYDRAULIC MAINTENANCE GROUP (GMH)
AND MECHANICAL REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE INSPECTION TEAMS
DAMS
THE EDF CANAL, PROVENCE’S ENERGY LIFELINE
THREE-POINT GATE REMOTE PLANT COMMAND
15 hydroelectric plants are found down the EDF canal, turbining the waters in HYDRAULIC COMMAND CENTRE (CCH)
succession in order to turn it into electricity. In addition to generating electricity, WATER UPTAKES
it provides water to the entirety of the territory, to meet local demand for
drinking (1.5 million customers), industrial and agricultural (150,000 hectares
SAINT
of land) water each year. SAUVEUR
Production in
millions of kWh Volume (m3)
Argentière, the birthplace of hydroelectricity Maison du Roy 300,000
A single dam and six plants turbine the waters of the Les Claux 43.8
Upper Basin on the Durance River and the mountain Argentière 196
torrents. These structures are distinctive for their high Le Fournel 23.8
water falls and form a key part of the historic legacy Champcella 39.7
across the northern territory of the Hautes-Alpes. Eygliers 63.5
84
Baratier 4.7
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Serre-Ponçon, the largest gravity dam in Europe
Le largue
With a tremendous reservoir holding 1.2 billion m2 of
Serre-Ponçon 718.2 1.2 billion
water, Serre-Ponçon is the Provence Region’s protec- L
Espinasses 3.87 million
tion against drought. Built in 1955, it was the first in
Curbans 442.6 AVIGNON
hydroelectrical infrastructure to appear in the valley’s MA
downstream. Since that time, thanks to responsi- EM GEH DURANCE-VERDON
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The Sisteron Infrastructure Sisteron 759 SAINT-ESTÈVE
ARLES
Set on the Buëch and Durance, four plants and dams Lazer 31.5 JANSON
have been built for the purpose of power generation, SALON-DE-PROVENCE
Saint-Sauveur 1.2 million
giving a modern face to irrigation and fostering the Clares-Combes 1.1 SAINT-CHAMAS
development of agriculture in the Buëch Valley since Saint-Lazare 6.2 million EM GMH
1992. AIX-EN-PROVENCE
Rhône
Salignac 221.4
Le Riou 840,000 Etang
De berre
Oraison: When Sun and Water Come Together
The Oraison Complex is composed of three plants
and two dams, including EDF’s first hydroelectrical L’escale 15.7 million
plant equipped with photovoltaic panels: Le Largue. Malijai
The plant produces two forms of renewable energy Oraison 770 EM EDF PRODUCTION
in a single structure, by combining the power of water La Brillanne 97 MEDITERRANEE
and sun resources. Le Largue 35.9 MARSEILLE
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Durance Valley Manosque 190
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acrossSAINT-JEAN
the territory.
BREIL Jouques 385
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PLAN DU VAR
Mallemort, the final link in the Durance-Verdon a Mallemort 403.9 700,000
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Va
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SAINTE-TULLE II Located at the end of the hydroelectrical chain, five Lamanon 5.6
SAINTE-TULLE I plants and two dams channel, from the Mallemort Dam,
PONT- Salon-de-Provence 122.4
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part of the flows from the Berre Pond and another portion Saint-Chamas 192
GRÉOUX LA SIAGNE Loup
CHE of the Durance River’s natural bed. When the Durance’s wa- Bonpas
SAINTE-CROIX Bian
VINON çon
MONTAUROUX ters are low, the EDF Canal channels water to the farms and
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theEMMarseille
GEH VAR-ROYAWater Company’s system, to supply drinking
JOUQUES CAGNES-SUR-MER
water requirements.
Arg
THE VERDON AND THE SOLEIL DAMS
ens
Five dams and hydroelectrical plants Production in
s
Argen
millions of kWh Volume (m3)
83
have been built on the Verdon
Combined, they generate nearly 600 million kWh per year, Castillon 76.5 149 million
or the annual consumption of a city like Aix-en-Provence. Chaudanne 57.5 16 million
The great turquoise lakes of the Verdon are vital reserve Sainte-Croix 130 760 million
waters tha play a major part in supplying the surrounding Quinson 40 83.8 million
municipalities with drinking water and irrigating farmlands. Gréoux 80 million
The water is conveyed to Aix-en-Provence and the Eastern Vinon-sur-Verdon 113.7
Var region by the water uptakes managed by Société du
Canal de Provence. In 2011, two micro-plants were installed
TOULON in Chaudanne and Gréoux. Since 2009, the Castillon Dam
has been equipped with the world’s largest sun dial.30
plants
17
dams
2000
MW ready for use
within 10 minutes
6.5
billion kWh
40%
of the power generated The Largue Plant
in the PACA Region
THE HYDRAULIC
COMMAND CENTRE
The main facilities are com-
manded remotely, from the
Hydraulic Command Centre. It
guarantees fully-synchronised
operations capable of generating
up to 2 000 MW power, the equiv-
alent of 2 nuclear power reactors,
in less than 10 minutes, and thus
supply customers in a competitive
and responsive manner.
BOOSTING THE TERRITORY’S
ATTRACTIVENESS
The creation of large reser-
voirs has fostered the controlled
development of tourism and
water sports, in particular around
the Serre-Ponçon, Sainte-Croix
and Castillon Lakes. Today, these
zones have turned into full-
fledged activity magnets and con-
tributing to the valley’s business
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