1.4.4.4.2 Sales and marketing
ÉS Énergies Strasbourg is the sales and marketing subsidiary of the ÉS group. At end-2021, ÉS Énergies Strasbourg supplied power to more than 563,000 electricity customers (including renewable source electricity), and more than 113,000 gas customers, both individuals and businesses (in the tertiary and industrial sectors) as well as local authorities.
In addition to supplying electricity and gas, ÉS Énergies Strasbourg offers related services. These include electricity, gas and plumbing corrective maintenance and digital services designed to help customers better manage their energy consumption. For its individual customers, ÉS Énergies Strasbourg has continued the implementation of support services. They cover the renovation and construction of housing, via a portal that puts customers in touch with a network of local partners. ÉS Énergies Strasbourg is also active in the development of solar power. It promotes sustainable transport, in particular charging infrastructures for electric vehicles.
ÉS Services Énergétiques, a subsidiary that specialises in energy services, is owned by ÉS and Dalkia on a 50-50 basis. In the field of energy transition, ÉS Services Énergétiques has positioned itself as a provider of sustainable solutions and a creator of energy performance. It provides attractive solutions on world performance markets and for energy performance contracts, as well as for managing and securing networks (heat, electricity, and public lighting networks). It also carries out engineering work for mass catering providers. ÉS Services Énergétiques operates three major heating networks in Eurométropole de Strasbourg, as well as the biomass power plant that provides these networks with green energy, which makes it possible to avoid 40,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year, i.e., the equivalent of emissions from 17,000 cars.
In France, the ÉS group is one of the leading players in the deep geothermal energy sector. Since 2016, it has operated the first deep geothermal power plant for industrial use in Rittershoffen. The plant’s renewable superheated water output is approximately 180GWh/year. This water comes from a geothermal source located at a depth of 2,500 metres.
ÉS also operates the Soultz-sous-Forêts geothermal power plant, which generates around 6GWh/year.
In addition, ÉS launched a third geothermal project, in Illkirch-Graffenstaden to the south of Strasbourg. The work, which started in 2018, is currently suspended following seismic events presumably caused by a third party that affected Eurométropole de Strasbourg at the end of 2020. Moreover, as the technical results of the first borehole were significantly below the target level for future operations, ÉS wrote down these assets during the 2020 fiscal year.
The Strasbourg biomass cogeneration plant uses residue from the wood industry in the Vosges and Black Forest mountains. This 37MW thermal power plant produces 70GWh of electricity from renewable sources per year and 112GWh of heat from renewable sources per year.
The Le Framont hydropower plant, which has a capacity of 400kW, was inaugurated in September 2019. Subject to water availability, it can produce approximately 1.5GWh/year, which is equivalent to the annual electricity consumption of 350 homes.
Moreover, since 2011, ÉS has held a 35% stake in Groupe SERHY, a company that specialises in the construction and operation of hydropower plants, primarily in the Alpine and Pyrenean mountain ranges. SERHY produces around 160GWh/year from renewable energy sources.
EDF group supplies electricity and gas to some 38.5 million customers worldwide: residential customers, businesses, and local government. It is a major energy provider on key European markets: France, the UK, Italy, and Belgium. The Group is seeking to move into new geographical areas, developing low-carbon solutions in growing countries and strengthening its positions in Europe.
EDF group activity in the United Kingdom (UK) is led by EDF Energy and EDF Trading (see 1.4.6.3 “Optimisation and Trading: EDF Trading”) and also consists of other Group companies (Imtech, EDF Renewables UK, Pod Point).
The purpose of EDF in the UK, the country’s largest low-carbon electricity producer, is to help Britain achieve Net Zero. It does this by leading the transition to a decarbonised energy system in its seven business areas:
In addition, EDF Trading is providing optimisation and risk management services to the EDF group as well as third parties.
EDF Energy is one of the UK’s largest energy companies and the largest producer of low-carbon electricity. It produces around 14% of the nation’s electricity (1). EDF Energy supplies gas and electricity to around 6 million business and residential customer accounts as at December 2021. The company employs 11,141 people at
sites throughout the UK as at December 2021.
EDF Renewables UK operates and develops new renewable generation and storage projects in the UK and Ireland, with almost 1GW of gross capacity in operation and almost 4GW in planning and development, also including development of large scale batteries and high-volume power connections to enable rapid electric vehicle charging through Pivot Power (2).
Imtech is one of the leading technical and engineering service providers in the UK and active from engineering services and contracting (Imtech Engineering Services and SUIR) to technical facilities management (Imtech Inviron), systems integration and digital solutions (Capula) and energy services and energy performance contracting, especially in the public sector (Breathe).
In electric mobility, EDF has a majority stake in Pod Point, a leading electric vehicle (EV) charging company in the UK (3). In November 2021 Pod Point listed on the London Stock Exchange, with EDF Energy retaining a majority stake. EDF in the UK aims to maintain and build its leading position on UK charging point operations; develop smart charging; and offer low-carbon tariffs as well as wider services to support UK drivers in going electric.
EDF in the UK is working to help deliver the UK Government’s “10-point plan” for green recovery (1) including a plan to enable over £50 billion of investment in Britain’s low-carbon generation by 2035.
(1) Calculation taking into account EDF Energy’s electricity production from its nuclear, coal and gas-fired power stations and wind farms in proportion to its percentages of ownership. If EDF Renewables' capacity is added, EDF's total contribution to the country's low carbon electricity is 15.76%. EDF also produced 1.1% of the electricity from coal and gas-fired plants.
(2) https://www.pivot-power.co.uk/who-we-are
(3) See EDF press release of 13 February 2020 “The EDF group acquires Pod Point, one of the UK’s largest electric vehicle charging companies”.
