• VINCI employee mobility
VINCI takes action to encourage its employees to use non-motorised forms of transport. With a fleet of over 80,000 passenger and utility vehicles, fuel consumption relating to the use of vehicles by VINCI employees is a significant source of direct emissions for the Group. Reducing these emissions requires studying relevant, locally available travel solutions, as well as transitioning the vehicle fleet and travel policy. The measures taken range from optimising journeys and kilometres travelled to the use of low-emission vehicles, awareness initiatives and training in eco-driving practices.
More and more light and utility vehicle fleets are being replaced with electric or other alternative energy vehicles. In 2022, 27% of new vehicle orders were for low-emission vehicles. By 2030, the Group plans to have converted more than 40% of its fleet in France and 20% in other countries. At 31 December 2022, VINCI’s fleet in France comprised nearly 8% electric vehicles.
In cases where existing technologies do not offer satisfactory solutions for certain mobility needs, several entities are carrying out various trial initiatives:
- VINCI Airports has set up a partnership with the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regional authorities to install a hydrogen gas distribution station powered by renewable electricity for Lyon-Saint Exupéry airport, which will make it possible to supply fuel for part of the airport’s new hydrogen vehicle fleet from 2023.
- VINCI entities are also working to optimise their employees’ travel arrangements and promote carpooling by setting up dedicated platforms. At several VINCI Construction subsidiaries or divisions (ETF, the Major Projects Division, etc.), shuttles have been introduced between worksites and site facilities. As a laudable initiative, all VINCI Construction employees working on the Lyon Part-Dieu multimodal transport hub commute using non-motorised transport (walking, bus, metro, bicycle, scooter, etc.).
• Optimising energy for industrial activities
Due to the industrial nature of their business, VINCI Construction entities account for 27% of the Group’s total energy consumption. Since 2016, the Road France Division of VINCI Construction has developed and implemented its environment strategy, with ambitious energy efficiency targets for each business segment.
In 2022, industrial facilities continued to reduce their energy consumption, with further investment in switching to electric-powered binder equipment systems at six plants, replacing oil burners with natural gas burners at three plants and building materials storage facilities at nine plants as well as four new plants offering optimised energy consumption. Production units at the Pagnac quarry, located in central France, were replaced in 2019 and 2021. In three years, this improved production by nearly 30% and reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 20%.
The Edrive digital tool was developed and rolled out in 2022 at more than half of VINCI Construction’s industrial facilities (including Sogea-Satom) to enable sites to monitor reductions in energy consumption and CO₂ emissions in real time.
• Energy optimisation of buildings and site facilities
All of the Group’s entities are committed to reducing energy consumption levels for their buildings. These actions, some of which were initiated in 2020, are part of the energy conservation plan that VINCI adopted in 2022:
- VINCI Construction has implemented several measures, including insulation work, heating and lighting limitations, and posters and a worksite facility manual distributed to all offices. The energy efficiency of its buildings is managed using several tools. The main one is Eleneo, which connects directly to the integrated management software to monitor electricity and gas meters. Mobile sites (worksite installations and buildings) are connected to the electricity grid when possible.
- Following an analysis carried out in 2020 on all of its 600 buildings, VINCI Energies France requires each building to have an energy performance rating of at least C. Class E will be phased out by the end of 2023. To date, 81% of the buildings are class D or higher.
- VINCI Autoroutes is installing LED lighting along its motorways and at its sites (service and rest areas, interchanges, standard sections, toll platforms and maintenance centres), and is adopting eco-design practices when renewing its service areas. All sites will have LED lighting by 2024, representing 40,000 LED bulbs.
- VINCI Concessions is putting in place a range of initiatives to reduce its energy consumption worldwide: LED relamping, the renewal of heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) equipment with the most efficient systems; optimisation of temperature, lighting and ventilation guidelines for tunnels; and the deployment of ISO 50001-certified energy management systems, among other examples.
• Decarbonising the energy used
In addition to reducing their energy consumption, several entities have taken steps to decarbonise the energy they use, by installing renewable energy systems for self-consumption or setting up power purchase agreements (PPA) and purchasing guarantees of origin.
- VINCI Autoroutes and its subsidiaries ASF, Escota and Cofiroute have put in place contracts for renewable electricity with guarantees of origin for 100% of the electricity.
- VINCI Concessions is deploying a vast plan to install solar panels for self-consumption, partly through its subsidiary SunMind. These efforts have increased its installed capacity to 36 MWp in 2022, of which 23 MWp is set aside for self-consumption. SunMind is one of the winning initiatives at the Environment Awards and aims to develop the installation of solar power facilities for buildings and infrastructure throughout Europe (projects with a total capacity of 150 MWp are under way).
- In 2022, 26% of the electricity consumed by VINCI Energies entities came from renewable sources, representing around 30,000 MWh, with 76 MWp of renewable energy production systems installed. The company Eliove was created to centralise VINCI Energies’ solar power expertise nationwide and covering the entire process, from development, financing and construction to the operation of facilities over a period of 20 years. A hydrogen platform was also created to familiarise network companies with existing hydrogen solutions.
