In a regulatory and societal environment which places the fight against climate change at centre stage, and in line with its raison d’être, the EDF group aspires to significant growth in energy services in order to deliver high-performance, innovative and sustainable solutions to its customers.
These services address the issues raised by local authorities, businesses and residential customers in a wide variety of fields: decentralised energy generation, low-carbon heating networks, green hydrogen, smart lighting, electric mobility, smart building management, energy saving advice, and energy efficiency. The range of solutions offered by the Group is innovative and meets customers’ emerging requirements, notably reducing carbon emissions and improving energy performance.
The services proposed draw on the Group’s expertise, in particular in R&D, and are implemented through its various subsidiaries and departments.
The EDF group has held a 99.94% equity interest in Dalkia since July 2014. Dalkia is a leading player in the European energy services market that provides a full range of services and has an excellent sales network in France. The company is expanding internationally in four geographical zones (Great Britain, USA, Poland and the Middle East).
Dalkia provides its customers with expertise to develop, produce, and manage more environmentally-friendly and economical energy systems. Thanks to its nearly 80 years of experience in managing heating and cooling networks, optimising industrial utilities, improving the energy performance of buildings, or using local and renewable energies, Dalkia offers its customers tailor-made solutions to reduce their energy consumption and to improve the environmental and economic performance of their installations.
Dalkia (including its subsidiaries) manages over 90,000 energy installations in France and abroad.
The company achieved 6.5TWh of energy savings in 2022, as well as enabled its customers to avoid the emission of 4.2 million tonnes (1) of CO2.
Dalkia’s core business is to make the best use of local energy sources for heating and cooling networks. Dalkia uses local sources of energy to provide its customers – both businesses and local authorities – with sustainable energy solutions:
Dalkia’s second business line is “energy savings”, in particular through Energy Performance Contracts:
Dalkia Froid Solutions, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Dalkia Group, specialises in industrial and commercial refrigeration and HVAC. Its aim is to supply its customers with controlled temperatures, by optimising energy consumption and protecting the environment through innovative end-to-end management of the process, encompassing consultancy, design, installation, and maintenance.
Dalkia Air Solutions, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Dalkia group, provides a complete range of auditing, design, installation and maintenance services for compressed air, nitrogen, and breathing air systems aimed at all sectors of industry. Compressed air is an energy intensive utility that requires a significant amount of electricity, and thus has a potential for energy savings.
Dalkia EN (Énergie Nucléaire, Nuclear Energy) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Dalkia group that is dedicated to the nuclear environment. The entity has a headcount of over 700 employees working in two business lines
Dalkia Electrotechnics Holding is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dalkia (2). It provides electrical engineering services primarily in two fields:
Dalkia Electrotechnics Holding designs, installs, operates and maintains electrical installations and offers a range of services that are tailored to its customers’ needs. Citelum France was integrated into Dalkia Electrotechnics Holding in January 2022, and was renamed “Dalkia Electrotechnics”.
CRAM is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dalkia, located primarily in north-western France (Normandy, Picardy and Île-de-France). It provides services, and designs and implements projects in the field of operations and maintenance, management and construction of heating and climate control facilities. The company has a workforce of 700 employees and manages over 7,000 installations.
Dalkia Polska Solutions, based in Poland, designs, builds and maintains technical facilities (ventilation, heating, air conditioning, fire protection, etc.) for commercial buildings and industrial sites. It also provides innovative solutions for the building’s energy performance management.
Dalkia Polska Energia is mainly specialised in the generation and distribution of heat in the region of Katowice in Poland (Upper Silesia). It has recognised expertise in the energy recovery of mine gas as an alternative to coal to be used by heating networks and electricity distribution facilities.
Imtech, jointly owned by Dalkia and EDF Energy, specialises in major HVAC and electrical engineering works, technical facilities maintenance, and data acquisition and control systems integration. Imtech provides its services to the construction, industry and tertiary sectors, and public authorities.
Imtech is established in the United Kingdom. Its subsidiary, Breathe, is a specialist in energy performance in the UK. Imtech bought out Spie UK on 19 December 2022 (3). This acquisition will allow Imtech to expand its presence on its principal markets and extend its offering with specialised services in the fields of industrial instrumentation, clean rooms, and security systems.
(1) 4 million tonnes excluding CO2 emissions avoided by gas co-generation.
(2) See the Dalkia press release dated 25 January 2022 “Dalkia launches its electrical engineering subsidiary”.
(3) See Dalkia press release of 19 December 2022 “Imtech has signed an agreement for the acquisition of SPIE UK”.
