Danone and EDF sign efficiency deal
5 Nov 2014
Food and drink giant the Danone Group has signed a deal with EDF to improve the energy efficiency of its dairy division plants.
The French utility’s energy efficiency services subsidiary, EDF Fenice, will provide Danone with a whole set of pre-financed equipment and tailor-made services such as the design, construction, modernisation and turnkey management of new facilities: substations, boiler houses, chiller houses, compressor rooms.
EDF Fenice claims its pre-financing business model for all of this equipment will enable Danone to invest its own resources in the development of core business.
EDF will also manage existing assets through outsourcing, and will implement energy efficiency projects.
Finally, a full range of environmental services is included in the deal, from laboratory analysis to waste management, from consulting to waste water treatment plants.
“Dealing with a global and multi sites cooperation, the added value linked to scale effects will make this partnership a point of reference for energy and environmental efficiency in tomorrow’s international industry,” said EDF Fenice chief executive Nicolas Katcharov.
