Energy efficiency
In September 2022, amid the energy crisis, VINCI rolled out an energy savings plan that will reduce the electricity and natural gas consumption of its concession activities and offices in France by 15% in 2023. This short-term target aligns with the Group’s broader environmental transition goal to shrink its direct carbon footprint (Scopes 1 and 2) by 40% by 2030.
1 Environment Day
VINCI employees around the world celebrated the third annual Environment Day on 22 September with collaborative games, workshops, 15-minute environmental impact sessions, conferences, on-site demonstrations and more, creating many opportunities for local teams to build awareness and share their experiences with the environmental transition.
Environment Day was an opportunity to share best practices emerging from the Environment Awards, whose first edition in 2021 drew over 2,500 initiatives submitted by Group employees. Of these, 190 earned distinctions as regional winners or top finishers.
2 Self-consumption at airports
VINCI Airports is building on-site solar power stations to reduce its carbon footprint. Three new solar farms at the Faro airport, Belgrade airport and Lyon-Saint Exupéry airport (P3 car park) began operating in 2022, bringing the network’s total installed capacity to 36 MWp. The Faro power plant was developed by SunMind (a specialised subsidiary of VINCI Concessions) and installed by Omexom (VINCI Energies), which now operates Portugal’s very first airport solar farm.
Rooftop solar power
Through its dedicated subsidiary Eliove, VINCI Energies is installing rooftop solar panels to scale up energy efficiency gains for its property assets. Eliove’s first mission is to inventory and audit the 160 buildings owned by VINCI Energies in France and then identify candidates for solar panel installation, in terms of technical feasibility. After that it will do the same for leased buildings. The subsidiary manages every project phase, including investment, re-roofing, operation and maintenance. Longer term, Eliove plans to put this know-how to work for the Group’s external customers.