Carbon Shift, the Equans integrated approach to accelerate its clients' transformation towards a low-carbon, resilient and sustainable world
We are at a crossroads where reconciling human activities with environmental protection is an absolute must if we are to build a sustainable future.
For economic players, the pressure to adopt decarbonised and sustainable models is increasing (growing awareness among managers, demands from investors, regulatory obligations, risk management, consumer demand, attractiveness of professions). Many of them want to focus on the core processes of their business, and need to benefit from solid support in defining realistic and compliant objectives, focusing on the most technically and financially effective appropriate solutions, and finding the right partners to set their ecosystem in motion.
After decarbonising several hundred companies in Europe and North America, Equans wants to do more to accelerate its clients' transitions. For this reason, Equans is launching Carbon Shift, an integrated approach to help decision-makers to rise to their challenges in transforming towards a sustainable model that takes planetary boundaries into account.
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Carbon Shift is the solution for supporting public and private buildings, industries, cities and territories from A to Z towards a more sustainable, decarbonised model that takes planetary boundaries into account.
Carbon Shift is an offering to complement existing expertise. It integrates all Equans' technical skills into a series of teams organised per country, simplifying clients' transformation process. Simple, integrated support: from audits to performance monitoring, through diagnostics, master plans, works management and possible access to funding.
Carbon Shift will draw on the expertise of a major Group whose tailor-made approach is a hallmark that sets it apart from all energy companies.
For all Equans clients (large groups, small and medium-sized companies and local authorities), the Carbon Shift teams will target and provide, as a priority, tailored solutions through a global offering and local implementation by local teams that can include:
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Support at every stage of decarbonisation: from upstream advice to monitoring and even performance commitments, through design, local financing solutions, management of installation work, maintenance;
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A partnership approach to building tailor-made solutions towards a quantified and precise model allowing (in a stand-out feature) the financial and CO2 ROI of each investment to be calculated by integrating the actual CO2 CAPEX of the proposed solutions;
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A range of controlled and proven low-carbon solutions to:
- Produce green - Renewable energy: Solar PV, geothermal energy, etc.;
- Capture GHGs: heavy industry, emissions monitoring, Rejeneo (Bouygues Group carbon contribution solutions);
- Consume less and locally: optimising consumption, managing LED lighting, recovering waste heat with or without a carbon and energy performance contract;
- Consume effectively and flexibly; network optimisation, battery storage and high-temperature storage (green heat module), district heating and 2nd-generation district heating;
- Consume green and go electric: heat pumps, electric boilers, PV self-consumption, charging stations, e-boiler/e-fuel, decarbonised H2
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Teams with expertise in advising on decarbonisation master plans: 500 people in France, the Netherlands, the UK, Belgium and Canada, enabling us to increase the number of development possibilities and opportunities.
One collaborative network within Equans
One global offer for all our clients
To simplify their decarbonisation pathway
One collaborative network supported by 7 boosters
To facilitate innovation and customer relations as close as possible to their needs and multiply development opportunities.
We have undertaken hundreds of carbon neutrality projects for our customers, redesigning plant heat production, computerising building controls, storing summer thermal energy for winter use, installing self-consumption solar photovoltaic systems. Our customers ask us to combine all these solutions so that they can optimise their plan for reducing their environmental footprint and then implement it. That's why we're delighted to be launching Carbon Shift, a global brand, currently in France and the Netherlands and soon in other countries, uniting hundreds of experts with access to thousands of Equans engineers. Electric power is rapidly becoming carbon neutral, and we now have the capacity to make our customers' infrastructure, processes and transport carbon-free, so that we can all progress towards achieving Net Zero Carbon in the near future. It's a major step for our company, a strategic commitment for Equans, a commitment to building our clients' essential strategic energy plans and contributing to their long-term economic performance.”
Supporting our customers from A to Z towards a more sustainable, low-carbon model compatible with the planet's limits
Customers that trust us
Some of our flagship cases
Conducting a reflection on improving energy performance and decarbonising the Saint Pol sur Ternoise site
Electrification of distribution and home shopping centers Ahold:
This is done by conducting energy profile analysis and location studies, following the Trias Energetica approach:
- Minimizing energy consumption
- Use of renewable energy
- Efficient use of the available energy
Customer: Ahold Delhaize
PV solar panel system
MABRU has a PV solar panel system with 100% grid injection. The panels generate the equivalent of 1,200 households’ consumption and are installed on the he rooftops of the market and 9 truckports (Belgium’s first solar parking lot).
For the parking lot, 2,2 MWh per year, equivalent to the annual consumption of almost 630 households and avoids the annual emissions of over 800 tonnes of Co2.
For this parking lot, Equans provided also financing, and MABRU will own the system after 10 years.
Customer: Mabru