Freelancer profile translated to English.

Description

Manager specialized in energy and environmental transition topics seeking freelance mission starting September 2025

For 6 years, Adrien has been supporting the business divisions of private and public organizations on energy and environmental transition issues.

He regularly works on renewable gas, hydrogen, and biomethane sectors, focusing on defining sector strategies, project emergence, grid balancing, prospective studies, opportunity or feasibility studies, and project scoping.

Furthermore, he is passionate about the energy transition and its challenges, serving as a trainer on these subjects within his various firms (coordinator of the Energy Transition Academy and its 10 thematic training courses), facilitator of the Climate Fresk and the En-road simulator.

In parallel, he also delivers the "Energy Transition Fresk" modules to engineering and management schools (Centrale Supélec, Chimie Paris, Audencia Business School, etc.), and supervises study projects on these topics (e.g., State-of-the-art of SMRs, benchmark of heavy mobility decarbonization solutions).

He also worked for 3 years abroad (South Africa, Singapore, Canada, Spain, and Australia) and led several missions in English in an international environment.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Native or bilingual
Spanish
Native or bilingual
Italian
Conversational

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Paris (up to 50km), Lyon (up to 50km), Nantes (up to 50km), Angers (up to 50km)

GRDF
Support the management of the EDR project, aiming to facilitate biomethane injection
CONSULTING AND AUDITS
January 2023 - July 2023 (6 months)
Paris, France
GRDF - Technical and Industrial Directorate - Support the management of the EDR (Dynamic Network Operation) project, aiming to facilitate biomethane injection
Coordination of a cross-functional team from the biomethane and technical directorates to anticipate and address saturation on the distribution network
Development of reporting and project communication materials: dashboards, committee presentations, work summaries
Co-facilitation of a general design approach for the target information system
Project Scoping Decarbonization Strategy Training Facilitation Team Coordination Functional Scoping
STORENGY
Prospective approach - Construction & sizing of tomorrow's H2 storage asset
CONSULTING AND AUDITS
February 2023 - May 2023 (3 months)
Storengy, Céré-la-Ronde, France
Storengy - Prospective approach - Construction & sizing of the renewable H2 storage asset for 2040
Preparation and facilitation of co-construction workshops using Design Thinking methodologies
Conducted 15 interviews (technical experts, business developers/representatives from FR, UK, DE markets) to understand the vision of hydrogen storage and each stakeholder's priority challenges
Formalization of 3 scenarios addressing identified technical issues based on market trends and 2 to 3 demonstrators materializing the assets (hydrogen storage facility) in visual model form
List of areas to investigate to inform decision-making
Prospective Design Fiction Workshop Energy Transition Bilingual English
GRDF
Coordination of the saturation task force & producer relations
CONSULTING AND AUDITS
October 2022 - January 2023 (3 months)
Paris, France
GRDF - Biomethane Directorate - Coordination of the saturation task force & producer relations
Scoping and coordination of a cross-functional team from the biomethane and technical directorates to anticipate and address saturation on the distribution network
Drafting of materials for producers & purifiers, aimed at promoting the implementation of injection regulation for methanizers at the network's downstream pressure
Development of a functional specification for the implementation of an automatic saturation detection indicator. Agile testing and deployment.
Creation of a working group with GRTGaz for managing saturations common to Transmission and Distribution Network Operators
Business Scoping Functional Scoping Training Facilitation