TotalEnergies societal Research & Development team supports the actions of the TEEN (Territories in Energy and Environmental Transitions) Chair, created in 2018 by the University of Pau and the Pays de l’Adour. What is the objective? To rethink the role in the energy transition for companies and leading figures in the different regions.
Investigate the acceptability of local energy projects
The TEEN Chair is an initiative created by the UPPA in partnership with the Pau Béarn Pyrénées Conurbation, the Compagnie d’Aménagement des Coteaux de Gascogne, the CNRS and TotalEnergies R&D department. Its roadmap involves analyzing the energy and environmental transitions, better understanding them and finding solutions.
As a relay point for conveying expertise, it proposes tangible scenarios for the effective implementation of each regional project. For example, the TEEN Chair runs scientific studies on the technologies developed by TotalEnergies and related to societal challenges: the social acceptability of agrivoltaics, offshore wind farms, lithium, hydrogen, EV charge points, crowdfunding for renewable energies, etc.
TotalEnergies, the TEEN Chair’s first industrial partner
The TEEN Chair creates synergies between technologies, the companies that deploy them, and the population. As the first industrial partner, TotalEnergies brings its technical expertise on the different energies (wind, solar, biomass, gas, etc.) and its social expertise through the involvement of a team trained in research methods in the Human and Social Sciences sector. R&D Social Performance at TotalEnergies puts forward action to improve the deployment of Company projects, by providing information on best practices and supporting the local players likely to adopt them.
Providing the perspective of a major group
The Research & Development department at TotalEnergies works on different issues generated by the production of cheaper, cleaner and more readily available energy. The R&D societal programs involve the Company in an approach to ensure the continuous improvement of its activities, in particular through the anticipation, integrated assessment and management of non-technical risks, or conflicts inherent to operations.
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