EDF Renewable Energy created a new business unit, Distributed Electricity and Storage (DES), to focus on distributed solar and storage projects up to 30 megawatts (MW).

The DES group says it will pursue emerging distributed-energy opportunities to provide products and services to commercial, industrial (C&I) and utility customers in the United States.

In 2016, EDF RE acquired groSolar, a developer and EPC provider of commercial, industrial, and municipal solar projects, as a growth platform for distributed energy. It also hired two solar/storage industry veterans, Tom Leyden and Felix Aguayo.

Leyden is the former CEO of Solar Grid Storage, and Aguayo is former Managing Director at SunEdison.

EDF RE has developed 9 gigawatts (GW) of wind, solar, bioenergy, and storage projects in the U.S., Mexico, and Canada. EDF Group globally has deployed over 300 MW (824 MWh) of storage projects.